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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 295, 17 June 1909, Page 6

. Another noble lord, and that no less a personage than. Lord Rosebery, must be credited with mixed metaphors in profusion. He had been fond of late years of referring to "lonely furrows" and "spade work," and in this connection he once advised an audience that mor<e "spade work was necessary, lest the wavejie lost in space." He was referring to the "wave of enthusiasm," which, 30 years ago, was defined by a statesman as "the common voice of the peop2e expressed in one unanimous roar."