sacred writ
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While still treated as sacred writ, the constitution no longer described the nation’s existing system of governance.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2020
Strange that the other inspired penmen should have left altogether unchronicled this touching episode in sacred writ.
From Memories of Bethany by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)
I have found it in the sacred writ, said I, that Cain was the first that built a town; we may then reasonably conjecture that from his name he gave it that of Cainon.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
Nor write, nor speak you more of sacred writ, But what shall force up your arrested wit.
From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard
Some of these are to be found in sacred writ, of which the riddle which Samson proposed to the young men of Timnath, is a very ancient and curious specimen.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Cox, Francis Augustus
