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
How truly this applies to the persons mentioned in sacred writ!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various
Then, if he turn not to the pages of sacred writ for an answer, he will find written on the living pages and animated forms of all nature the promise of another life.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder
Like all devout persons, her faith in the efficacy of sacred writ was strong: and she so much the more lamented her suitor's continued blindness, because it remained after light had shone upon it.
From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by James Fenimore Cooper
Shakespeare writes— "From the table of my memory I'll wipe away all saws of books," and elsewhere of another of his characters he says that "his weapons" were "holy saws of sacred writ."
From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme
