Middlemarch vocabulary

He spoke in his sermons about sheep and goats and about wheat and tares. He believed in slaying the prophets of Baal.

Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart, p.184 (1958)

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the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, the most civilised commercial people of the world in their time, as the English are now, gave their own children to be burnt alive as victims to Baal.

Grant Allen. The British Barbarians

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When a flood inundated the temple of Baal, the Malachites decided Baal wasn’t such a hot god anyway.

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during the agitation on the Catholic Question many had given up the “Pioneer”— which had a motto from Charles James Fox and was in the van of progress — because it had taken Peel’s side about the Papists, and had thus blotted its Liberalism with a toleration of Jesuitry and Baal; but they were illsatisfied with the “Trumpet,” which — since its blasts against Rome, and in the general flaccidity of the public mind (nobody knowing who would support whom)— had become feeble in its blowing.

George Eliot. Middlemarch