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John McCain Substance: Delved only occasionally into specifics when describing his agenda, focusing on spending and tax cuts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Delved from the earth a rude and shapeless thing, Rended by force from the deep quarry's breast,— Behold from such, a pure form upward spring, In beauty's fairest vesture aptly drest.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton

Therefore when the day was ended, Was the Iron from out the marshes, Delved from all the swampy places, Carried homeward to the smithy.

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)

Ingot from lost orient mines, Delved by humpbacked gnomes of Night, Full her orb loomed, nacreous white, O'er Pine Mountain's druid pines.

From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius

Sing for the prophets of labour, Rebukers of Ahab greedy of gardens Delved and possessed by another!

From The Piper and the Reed by Norwood, Robert W.