sacred writ

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Yet if they still divert us with their rage, What may be hoped for in a better age, When not from Helicon's imagined spring, But Sacred Writ, we borrow what we sing?

From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Denham, John, Sir

But really with all due respect to Sacred Writ, I could never accept that serpent story without considerable salt.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper

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

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.

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