holy order
Example Sentences
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So the back‑pass rule became a holy order to hoof, a proclamation from above that this was now at least half the goalkeeper's job.
From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2011
She was the 17-year-old daughter of a nobleman of Assisi; she founded a holy order for women, was canonized after her death like Francis, whom she had loved all her life.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the king felt a wave of despair washing over him, the nurse from the holy order came forward and spoke.
From Stories from the Old Attic by Harris, Robert A.
"As little!" said Nigel, somewhat sarcastically; "I should be almost content if the holy order in every country had as much influence as they now have in England."
From Endymion by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
After due study, the abbot seeing him qualified for the priesthood, obliged him to receive that holy order when he was about thirty years old.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John
