1821, Sophocles, J. Savill Faucit, Œdipus, a musical drama, in three acts.

Describing also what he calls the Preke or Poulps, Polypus. 'Tis, he says, a naked Fish, having eight Fingers or Arms, spread out almost like the Rays of a Star-Fish, and the Mouth in a Manner in the Middle of them.

Without effort, she took them with her into her ever widening circle of acquaintanceship, and the two Avonlea girls found their social pathway at Redmond made very easy and pleasant for them […]

Voltaire had drawn on Newton to demonstrate an allegedly divine orderliness in the natural world which left no space for God's intervention in human affairs ….