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When Sin opens the doors, even the intrepid Satan is momentarily appalled, but after his first amazement his sail-broad vans

COSMIC VOYAGES MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

Why should not some of the strange birds restored by the immortal Cuvier again flap their 'sail-broad vans' in this dense and heavy atmosphere?

A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866

Angelo that not even the "sail-broad vans" with which Satan laboured, through the surging abyss of chaos could suffice to lift those

Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847

‘sail-broad vans’ in this dense and heavy atmosphere?

Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

The sea-horse ramps at them from the ocean floor; the great roc darkens earth about them with the shadow of his wings; wise and goodly apes come forth and minister unto them; enchanted camels bear them over evil deserts with the swiftness of the wind, or the magic horse outspreads his sail-broad vannes, and soars with them; or they are borne aloft by some servant of the Spell till the earth is as a bowl beneath them, and they hear the angels quiring at the foot of the Throne.

Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation William Ernest Henley 1876

His whole mental atmosphere was thronged with spectral enginery; wheel within wheel; plans of hugest mechanism; Brobdignagian steam-engines; Niagaras of water-power; wind-mills with "sail-broad vans," like those of Satan in chaos, by the proper application of which every valley was to be exalted and every hill laid low; old forests seized by their shaggy tops and uprooted; old morasses drained; the tropics made cool; the eternal ices melted around the poles; the ocean itself covered with artificial islands, blossoming gardens of the blessed, rocking gently on the bosom of the deep.

The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

His whole mental atmosphere was thronged with spectral enginery; wheel within wheel; plans of hugest mechanism; Brobdignagian steam-engines; Niagaras of water-power; wind-mills with "sail-broad vans," like those of Satan in chaos, by the proper application of which every valley was to be exalted and every hill laid low; old forests seized by their shaggy tops and uprooted; old morasses drained; the tropics made cool; the eternal ices melted around the poles; the ocean itself covered with artificial islands, blossoming gardens of the blessed, rocking gently on the bosom of the deep.

Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

His whole mental atmosphere was thronged with spectral enginery; wheel within wheel; plans of hugest mechanism; Brobdignagian steam-engines; Niagaras of water-power; wind-mills with "sail-broad vans," like those of Satan in chaos, by the proper application of which every valley was to be exalted and every hill laid low; old forests seized by their shaggy tops and uprooted; old morasses drained; the tropics made cool; the eternal ices melted around the poles; the ocean itself covered with artificial islands, blossoming gardens of the blessed, rocking gently on the bosom of the deep.

Tales and Sketches Part 3, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

"Just see how royally he wheels upward and onward, his sail-broad wings stretched motionless, save an occasional flap to keep up his impetus!

Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

"Just see how royally he wheels upward and onward, his sail-broad wings stretched motionless, save an occasional flap to keep up his impetus!

My Summer with Dr. Singletary Part 2, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849