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I knew it was that fierce death-calm Its horrid hold undoing, And I saw the plagues of wind and storm Their missioned work pursuing.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 by Various

But we saw not, and who knoweth, what the missioned Spirits taught him,   To that one small bed drawn nearer, when we left him to their will?

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean

Eyes kindle at the glance of his eye:—National Deputies were missioned by a Nation; they have sworn an Oath; they—but lo! while the lion's voice roars loudest, what Apparition is this?

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Accordingly hot Fournier from Martinique, Fournier l'Americain, is off, missioned by Constituted Authority; with stanch National Guards, with Lazouski the Pole; sparingly provided with road-money.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Shall there shine From underneath his hand a matchless line Of high earth-beauties, till the wide world ring With the far clang that tells a missioned soul, Kneeling to homage all about his feet?

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George