"Spirit away" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was sorrow in Zion, the heavens were all faded and gray. Jehovah had hid his face from the children of the world, and taken his spirit away. His son, assailed with their wrath, sang beneath the diheftie in the gates ...
— The Secret of the Creation • Howard D. Pollyen
... as the last straw which was to swamp the burden of Eve's grief. Control was in vain, and in another instant, with Adam's arms around her, she lay sobbing out her sorrow on his breast, and the tears, as they came, thrust the evil spirit away. So that when, an hour later, the two said good-night again, their vows had been exchanged and the troth that bound them plighted; and Adam, looking into Eve's face, smiled as he said, "Whether for good luck or bad, the sun of our love has risen in ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various
... Cohen's agonized description of the man who had sold him the diamond, Colonel Jarras believed he recognized John Buckhurst. But how on earth Buckhurst had obtained access to the jewels, or how he had managed to spirit away the cross from the very centre of the Tuileries, could only be explained through the theory of accomplices among the trusted intimates of the imperial entourage. And if there existed such ...
— The Maids of Paradise • Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
... he added, "You can send Some one with me to see that I don't spirit away the parcel, ...
— Cast Upon the Breakers • Horatio Alger
... and down in the air. He believed that sickness was caused by obsession, or the influence of some evil spirit, and he endeavored, by howlings, jumpings, and rattling of snake-skins, to drive this imaginary spirit away. But he did not begin his incantations here; he looked upon Benjamin with staring eyes, ...
— The Log School-House on the Columbia • Hezekiah Butterworth |
