rhadamanthine
Example Sentences
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San Francisco State College President S. I. Hayakawa, a hero to California conservatives for his rhadamanthine handling of student demonstrators in the past, serenely denied that M-day was being observed on his campus.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the morrow morning, Colonel Pannewitz, hoping now he was not there, went with the rhadamanthine order; and finding the unlucky fellow, was obliged to execute it.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 by Thomas Carlyle
Date and document exist for all these cases, though my Dryasdust gives none; and the cases are indubitable; very rhadamanthine indeed.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 by Thomas Carlyle
Imprimatur nevertheless was the concluding word,—with these grave abatements, and rhadamanthine admonitions.
From Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle
Of which no constitutional country can hope to see the fellow, were the need never so pressing.—I wish his Majesty had been a thought more equal, when he was so rhadamanthine!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 by Thomas Carlyle
