The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

So spake the son of Othrys, and forthright, / my spirit stirred with impulse from on high, / I rush to arms amid the flames and fight, / where yells the war-fiend and the warrior's cry, / mixt with the din of strife, mounts upward to the sky.

Amid the waves is seen / an island, sacred to the Nereids' queen / and Neptune, lord of the AEgean wave, / which, floating once, Apollo fixed between / high Myconos and Gyarus, and gave / for man's resort, unmoved the blustering winds to brave.

Wilt thou not see, if yet thy sire survive, / worn out with age, amid the war's alarms? / And if thy wife Creusa be alive, / and young Ascanius? for around thee swarms / the foe, and but for my protecting arms, / fierce sword or flame had swept them all away."

From that day, amid all his cordiality, there was always a touch of suspicion in Mr. Trevor's manner towards me.

Parks were crowded amid a spell of spring-like weather over the weekend.

And God said: Let there be a firmament made amidst the waters: and let it divide the waters from the waters.

Tom dashed into the room amid a shower of sparks and splinters of burning woodwork.

The tower stood amid the ruins.

Still steadily rising, we passed over a narrow granite bridge, and skirted a noisy stream which gushed swiftly down, foaming and roaring amid the grey boulders.