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Did it not bear the same Circean cup through the halls of Nineveh and Babylon, and fling Cæsars and Alexanders to the ground?

From Humanity in the City by Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell)

But the deadly Sirens are in all things opposed to the Circean power.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John

Before each procession marched a swineherd playing on a rustic pipe, the sounds from which primitive instrument seemed to exercise Circean enchantment upon the rude flocks.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

They looked, the one an angel with a sense of humour, the other Circean with an eye to the conventions, both as smart as Paris could make them.

From The Californians by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

But the deadly Sirens are all things opposed to the Circean power.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John