He grumbled that there was no grain in the country and that people were talking instead of working to provide it.

1977-1984, Cop Shop (title of an Australian television series).

Why, child, he's thinking of how to keep a whole countryful of land fertile, and safe from savages.”

Altho at this distance you had no early Account or Particular of his Death; yet your Affection may cease to wonder that you had not some secret Sense or Intimation thereof by Dreams, thoughtful Whisperings, Mercurisms, Airy Nuncio’s, or sympathetical Insinuations, which many seem to have had at the Death of their dearest Friends.