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We have 'tempora minutionis,' stated seasons of bloodletting, when we are all let blood together; and then there is a general free-conference, a sanhedrim of clatter.

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas

Not long after the resurrection the apostles were taken before the council and sanhedrim of the Children of Israel.

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 8, August, 1880 by Walker, Aaron

Such a sanhedrim of windy fools from all countries of the Globe were surely never gathered in one city before.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas

We have 'tempora minutionis,' stated seasons of blood-letting, when we are all let blood together; and then there is a general free-conference, a sanhedrim of clatter.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

This new Teacher would startle all, as an eagle suddenly appearing in a sanhedrim of owls.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Maclaren, Alexander