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  • She seemed to see it -- its twelve gates, angel-guarded, its crystal river, its many-fruited tree -- the Tree of Life.

    Olive A Novel Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

  • Sp. Yes, I behold the darken'd sun bereav'n Of all his light, the battlements of Heav'n Swelt'ring in flames; the angel-guarded Son Of glory on his high tribunal-throne;

    Emblems, divine and moral 1812

  • [Page 122] clay we tread upon, – and tossing plumes, which were once the tail and wing feathers of a desert bird, fleeing before man over the hot sands, part of whose track man shall never see: part of whose track, till the day when earth consumes away like a scroll, shall remain among God's "waste and barren spaces"; glowing in arid and insufferable loneliness beneath the All-seeing Eye, as they glowed on the day when Hagar wept on their borders, and God answered the helpless gushing of a slave-woman's tears, with the "special Providence" of a miraculous and angel-guarded fountain!

    A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cransworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill 1855

  • He would wrangle and wrestle blindly up and down, with tears of earnestness in his eyes, till he had lost his temper, as far as it was possible for one so angel-guarded as he seemed to be; and then, when he found himself confused, contradicting his own words, making concessions at which he shuddered, for the sake of gaining from me assents which he found out the next moment I understood in quite a different sense from his, he would suddenly shift his ground, and try to knock me down authoritatively with a single text of Scripture; when all the while I wanted proof that

    Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

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