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The cunning, determined, rhetorically skillful Odysseus, long absent from his kingdom after a devastating war, becomes the devilishly clever Satan, cast down from his original home after the angelic civil war in heaven.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

They began picking their way down the beach, eyes cast down as they searched for the right white splotches.

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2023

"I see," Songmi says, her eyes cast down.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2023

His face glows for much of the episode "The Pine Barrens," cast down into a screen.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022

We had panes of smoked glass to peer through; and, for more precise accuracy, a refracting telescope trained upon a piece of paper, so that the image was cast down upon it.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson


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