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

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

Thus it will result in a very fine building indeed, and just as the affairs of that so distinguished and holy order are wont to result.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander

Thy offering is accepted; but thou must not expect yet to enter into the austerities of our holy order.

From The Pacha of Many Tales by Marryat, Frederick