Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.

he would strike them ere that day Twelve-moneth with some markable punishment

WikiLeaks might have provided a pressure valve for those agents who were terribly worried about what might happen and frustrated by their superiors' seeming indifference.

The less we look abroad, the more our ideas are introverted, and our habitual impressions... grow together into a kind of concrete substance.