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 * 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
 * It was a strange figure — like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child's proportions.


 * 1828, Thomas Attwood, The Scotch banker, articles under that signature [by T. Attwood] republ. from the Globe newspaper, page 3:
 * The business of the country bankers is to act as a medium between the debtor and the creditor interest of the country. They collect the dormant and unemployed capital of the latter, and give it action and vitality by lending it out to  the former, in ...
 * 1839, United States, On the Present Derangement of the Currency of the United States: With Suggestions for Its Better Regulation, page 9:
 * In the first capacity it is useful to the community; it is the means of transferring floating capital from one hand to another; it acts as a medium between the borrower and the lender, and facilitates the operations of credit by the aid of its own ...
 * 1855, The Intellectual repository for the New Church (July/Sept. 1817) / The Intellectual repository and New Jerusalem magazine, page 117:
 * Priestcraft well knows that its power and dominion over the minds of the people chiefly consist in maintaining itself as a medium between the worshipper and the Object of worship.
 * 2007, Reuben Gold Thwaites, Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Reprint Services Corporation (ISBN 9780781264341), page 186:
 * His loyalty to the English was doubtful and wavering, and his opposition to Post&#39;s journey was probably due to fears that his own importance as a medium between the Ohio Indians and the English would be diminished by the former&#39;s success.