• I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.

    Daniel Defoe: I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.
    Daniel Defoe (1719). “Robinson Crusoe: The Illustrated Edition”, p.155, Top Five Books LLC