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And all the stellar continents,   With that fierce hail thick sown, Recoiled with fear, from sphere to sphere   To Saturn's ancient throne.

From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by MacLean, Kate Seymour

"Recoiled from a proof so terrible," answered the missionary.

From The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century by Miles, George Henry