See Moloch on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2011, Daniel Aeschlimann, Eriz - zwischen alter und neuer Zeit: Geschichte und Geschichten aus dem Leben von 12 Generationen Bauern, Küher und Bergbauern während 400 Jahren, Weber AG Verlag, →ISBN, page 153:",
"text": "I dr Grasdeeri het me denn aube no ds Gras u nid ds Trocheguet gwoge. «Du bischt es schöns donner Chaub. Wiischt, wi viu das de hesch glade? Brutto 4860 Kilo, fascht 5 Tone! Sövu ladi ja nid emau d Bure hie nide mit de grosse Traktore. U du chunnscht mit däm liechte Jeepli u mit eme settige Moloch us em Erix use», het dr Grasdeeri-Chef gsiit, won er das Fueder het gwoge.",
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"ref": "2021 March 26, Roland Zoss, Hippie-Härz: e Trip dür d Seventies, 2nd edition, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9:",
"text": "Aber als Bärner bisch ja sowiso gärn chli hingerdry. Läck Bobby da muesch ufpasse, das nüüt a dir lasch la verby gah! Wül L.A. – das darfsch mer gloube – isch e Moloch, es Monschter vo re Stadt.",
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"text": "[W]e can't without wonder remember that horrid Invention projected in this place, but thanks be to God diſappointed, wherein there was not Reverence to the ſacred Bones of Princes, but all were at one blaſt to be offer'd up to Moloch.",
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"text": "They [bankers] would do what has been done by the Bank of France—buy bullion at a premium, on the approach of danger, and keep peril at a safe and respectable distance. Any expenditure that might be incurred for that purpose would be small indeed when contrasted with the immense loss and suffering caused by the present system, and the continual fear in which the public now live of some new crisis—because it has been out of one and into another for a long period now; and that will be the case hereafter, until we have no interval to gather strength, and recruit for the next struggle with Mammon, or Moloch, or whatever other name of evil import belongs to the \"Tutelarity\" of Lombard-street and its precincts.",
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"ref": "1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:",
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