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The sanhedrim long time as chief he ruled, Their reason guided, and their passion cooled.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Can the sublimest sanhedrim, constitutional parliament, or other Collective Wisdom of the world, persuade fire not to burn, sulphuric acid to be sweet milk, or the Moon to become green cheese?

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas

Such a sanhedrim of windy fools from all countries of the Globe were surely never gathered in one city before.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas

This new Teacher would startle all, as an eagle suddenly appearing in a sanhedrim of owls.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Maclaren, Alexander

Philo, a Pharisee, one of the Jewish sanhedrim, who hated Caiaphas, the high priest, for being a Sadducee.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham