Sacred Writ
Americannoun
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He stood a full minute while the president of the League mumbled to himself as he perused the Sacred Writ.
From Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Ball, Eustace Hale
Yet if they still divert us with their rage, What may be hoped for in a better age, When not from Helicon's imagined spring, But Sacred Writ, we borrow what we sing?
From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Denham, John, Sir
We are informed by a contemporary record that the iconoclasts carefully abstained from trespassing, and confined themselves to an exhibition of those passages of Sacred Writ in which an idolatrous worship was prohibited.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn
But really with all due respect to Sacred Writ, I could never accept that serpent story without considerable salt.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper
Since I am thus insensibly engaged in Sacred Writ, I cannot forbear making an extract of several passages which I have always read with great delight in the book of Job.
From Essays and Tales by Morley, Henry
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