“When Israel, of the Lord belov'd,
Out of the land of bondage came,
Her fathers' God before her mov'd,
An awful guide in smoke and flame.”
Ivanhoe, Chap. xxxix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Balsamo the Magician (or The Memoirs of a Physician) by Alex. Dumas (1891)
“To her Lord, her Father; her Husband, her Brother; his Servant his Child; his Wife, his Sister; and to express all that is humble, respectful and loving to her Abelard, Heloise writes this.”
Domino suo, imo Patri; Conjugi suo, imo Fratri; Ancilla sua, imo Filia; ipsius Uxor, imo Soror; Abaelardo Heloisa, &c. Abel. Op.
Letter II : Heloise to Abelard, Heading
Letters of Abelard and Heloise
" The Gift Outright http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/994.html" (1941)
1940s
“Her hands came out of her sleeves. There was a rod of blinding silver in each.”
Source: The Dark World (1954), Ch. 16 : Self Against Self
Context: Her hands came out of her sleeves. There was a rod of blinding silver in each. Before I could stir she had brought the rods together, crossing them before her smiling face. At the intersection forces of tremendous power blazed into an instant's being, forces that streamed from the poles of the world and could touch only for the beat of a second if that world were not to be shaken into fragments. I felt the building reel below me.
I felt the gateway open.
“The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.”
Source: The God of Small Things