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  • This was Huston's sweet spot—high-spirited, far-darting male adventure stories, which let him exercise his visual storytelling skills, which were less apparent to others than to him.

    The Man Who Would Be King Richard Schickel 2011

  • Whitman too was touched by India's "deep diving bibles and legends" and "far-darting beams of the spirit," and poets from Emily Dickinson to Bob Dylan were all touched by our national bard.

    Philip Goldberg: Obama Should Have Thanked India Philip Goldberg 2010

  • Whitman too was touched by India's "deep diving bibles and legends" and "far-darting beams of the spirit," and poets from Emily Dickinson to Bob Dylan were all touched by our national bard.

    Philip Goldberg: Obama Should Have Thanked India Philip Goldberg 2010

  • And in his right hand Jason held a far-darting spear, which Atalanta gave him once as

    The Argonautica 2008

  • They gave a tenth of the booty to far-darting Apollo.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • They gave a tenth of the booty to far-darting Apollo.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • “Me did Scaios offer to thee, far-darting Apollo, Victor in contest of boxing, a gift most fair in thine honour:” now Scaios would be the son of Hippocoön (at least if it were really he who offered it, and not another with the same name as the son of Hippocoön), being of an age contemporary with Œdipus the son of Laïos: 61, and the third tripod, also in hexameter rhythm, says:

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • And in his right hand Jason held a far-darting spear, which Atalanta gave him once as a gift of hospitality in Maenalus as she met him gladly; for she eagerly desired to follow on that quest; but he himself of his own accord prevented the maid, for he feared bitter strife on account of her love.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • Apollo with his arrows took his stand to face King Neptune, while Minerva took hers against the god of war; the archer-goddess Diana with her golden arrows, sister of far-darting Apollo, stood to face Juno; Mercury the lusty bringer of good luck faced Leto, while the mighty eddying river whom men can Scamander, but gods Xanthus, matched himself against

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • Just as, in former times, the fury of "far-darting Apollo" was felt when his name was not respectfully treated by mortals, so, in 1680, the Church authorities at Rome discovered that the plague then raging resulted from the anger of St. Sebastian because no monument had been erected to him.

    A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896

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