holy order

Example Sentences

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So the back‑pass rule became a holy order to hoof, a proclamation from above that this was now at least half the goalkeeper's job.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2011

She was the 17-year-old daughter of a nobleman of Assisi; she founded a holy order for women, was canonized after her death like Francis, whom she had loved all her life.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is essential to oppose no obstacle to the complete liberty offered by the Emperor to the Spaniards and to our holy order, for the preaching of the holy gospel.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

The matron from the holy order solemnly attested to the truth of the queen's story.

From Stories from the Old Attic by Harris, Robert A.

I sat down to supper in company with till the monks of the Hospice, I in my monkish robe looking like one of the holy order.

From Views a-foot by Taylor, Bayard