Terrestrial devils are those lares, genii, faunes, satyrs, wood-nymphs, foliots, fairies[…]

He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

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It sliced through shields and swords vainly raised in an attempt to parry an unparryable blow as if it were light, yet when it struck, it was hard as forged iron.