sacred writ

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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

We owe our grateful acknowledgments to Him who is, as he is frequently styled in Sacred Writ, 'The Lord of Hosts.'

From A Book of Autographs by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Pondering508 on their texts, he had discovered four separate interpretations for every suggestion of Sacred Writ.

From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by Symonds, John Addington

It destroys the Innocence of an indifferent Action, and gives an evil Action all possible Blackness and Horror, or in the emphatical Language of Sacred Writ, makes Sin exceeding sinful1.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

But the declaration of Sacred Writ is, "One event happeneth to all."

From Woman As She Should Be or, Agnes Wiltshire by Herbert, Mary E.