1To John Adams from John Trumbull, 14 November 1775 (Adams Papers)
...sufficient fondness for, to be sollicitous about making its apology; and which, I assure you Sir, came very near following many of its former Brethren into the flames, as a Sacrifice to that Poetical Moloch (if such a one there be) who delights in burnt offerings of the Infants of our modern Muses; or at best was in danger of suffering perpetual imprisonment, under the Sentence of Horace...
2From John Adams to Edmund Jenings, 8 June 1779 (Adams Papers)
...which has been heard heretofore very often and sometimes with Indulgence, shall be heard again. I will not always see the Honour and Interest of my Country, intrigued away and her most solid Characters immolated at the shrine of Moloch and be Silent.
3From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan: Two Versions, 24 January 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Deleted: “Sacrifices enough have been made to Moloch.”