Example Sentences

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The Chicago Tribune's Rhadamanthine publisher, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, last week ruled that three great nations�Britain, France and China� were no longer great.

From Time Magazine Archive

Carlyle felt more softly than he said, and could not have been trusted to execute one of his own Rhadamanthine decrees.

From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John

His square pale face grew more Rhadamanthine than ever, and the glass he had been filling with port overflowed unnoticed on the cloth.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard

As it was, she had signed away her life—a less important thing than property—and our Rhadamanthine law sternly held her to her bargain.

From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by d'Auvergne, Edmund B.

For my own part I scouted the story as soon as I heard it, and I withered up young Dacre for daring to bring such abominable slander within my Rhadamanthine sphere.

From The Red Planet by Locke, William John