pallium
Example Sentences
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Wrote Justice Hugo Black: "Our courts, palladiums of liberty as they are, cannot be treated disrespectfully with impunity."
From Time Magazine Archive
The guardians of all these palladiums have been duped.
From Time Magazine Archive
In abbeys the law was studied; abbeys were the palladiums of the public liberty by the custody of the royal charters and most of the records.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
It sounds better in history, as well as in the great, heart-stirring romances of the weekly palladiums of freedom.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
Yet some way we surmised that if our towns could have better bookstores and fewer bathtubs we might have felt easier in our minds for the palladiums of our liberties.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by White, William Allen
