Is it still definite?' "'A kind of halo begins to gather round it: my eyes dazzle.' "'Then raise them to the heavens; fix them on yonder blue sky.
— from Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites Including an Account of the Origin and Nature of Belief in the Supernatural by John Netten Radcliffe

It occurred to me that by pretending to listen to this dreamer, to appear to treat his dreams as though it was possible for them to eventually materialise, and to seem to weigh the proposal seriously which he had made to me, I might gain time enough to mature some plan of escape, and to put it into effect before the return of the Tiburon and my arch-enemy Garcia; and while, as a general rule, I most emphatically disapprove of everything that savours of deception, I felt that, taking all the circumstances of the case into consideration, I should be perfectly justified in practising such dissimulation as might be necessary to extricate myself from the exceedingly awkward situation in which I now found myself.
— from A Middy of the King: A Romance of the Old British Navy by Harry Collingwood

'A kind of halo begins to gather round it: my eyes dazzle'—— 'Then raise them to the heavens; fix them on yonder blue sky.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852 by Various