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  • It was already dark, but when I looked up at the sky, I saw a big old moon like God's own halo hung up there as a mark of his covenant.†   (source)
  • It seemed that the peace of a day's ending was an assurance that the covenant God made with children, Negroes and the crippled was still in effect.†   (source)
  • It's a covenant with my father.†   (source)
  • Then he leaped back across Newbury Street and landed on the steeple of the Church of the Covenant.†   (source)
  • Then, the hard selling done, my mom would move in with the technical stuff like covenants, specifications, and prices.†   (source)
  • In November, Good Hope Covenant Church in Wilmington was completely destroyed.†   (source)
  • In the Koran, the story appears in much the same manner as the covenant of Abraham and Isaac does in the Torah and the Bible.†   (source)
  • It's a covenant they make with the natural world, the Order of Things.†   (source)
  • They believe they have the Ark of the Covenant locked up in a church in Axum.†   (source)
  • The ark of the covenant with the power to conquer armies.†   (source)
  • I have faith in the covenant of marriage and in the God we stood before when we took those vows.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 4 Bargains, Covenants, and Promises ERMINTRUDE HAD HEARD THAT when you drown, your whole life passes in front of your eyes.†   (source)
  • Wherever Medusa's assets can be self-sustaining or absorbed by their individual economies, that'll be the case with restrictive covenants on all parties.†   (source)
  • It is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.†   (source)
  • What unknown covenants led her ultimately to this beach and this hour and this solitude?†   (source)
  • But to me, Charleston is a dark city, a melancholy city, whose severe covenants and secrets are as powerful and beguiling as its elegance, whose demons dance their alley dances and compose their malign hymns to the side of the moon I cannot see.†   (source)
  • I know certain families have enjoyed relationships because of their children, had carpools and holiday barbecues, and perhaps a shared weekend at a country house upstate or on the Long Island shore, but on the whole an unwritten covenant of conduct governs us, a signet of cordiality and decorum, in whose ethic, if it can be called such a thing, the worst wrong is to be drawn forth and disturbed.†   (source)
  • He sadly wiped his hand clean on the seat, annulling his and Diamond's solemn covenant.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's the Covenant."†   (source)
  • Most of those who had come to Mizogan with them had already refused the Prophet's covenant of weakness.†   (source)
  • Even as a schoolboy, I loved John Keats's ode "To Autumn" for being an ark of the covenant between language and sensation; as an adolescent, I loved Gerard Manley Hopkins for the intensity of his exclamations which were also equations for a rapture and an ache I didn't fully know I knew until I read him; I loved Robert Frost for his farmer's accuracy and his wily down-to-earthness; and Chaucer too for much the same reasons.†   (source)
  • Traditional Judaism teaches that God relates to humanity through a series of covenants, which are initiated by him, and in which God promises to perform certain acts on the condition that humans "keep their side of the bargain."   (source)
  • The desire of the book was to associate the ideas of the covenant relationship with God to the everyday lives of those who were reading the wisdom literature, as many of the proverbs may have been familiar simply through culture...   (source)
  • Because the early church believed in the continuity of history and of divine activity, it included in the Christian Bible the written records of both the Old and the New covenants.   (source)
  • Biblical scholars point to seven covenants described in the Bible.
    covenants = binding agreements (in this case between God and man)
  • This covenant—or pact—was that Abraham and all his seed would keep the Lord's commandments.†   (source)
  • I am Nephilim, no matter how much I might think the Covenant is useless and the Law fraudulent.†   (source)
  • Both of them had taken vows of celibacy and never even considered breaking their covenant with God.†   (source)
  • She returned before the moon of Maui-Covenant rose.†   (source)
  • I had thought the stars were bright above Maui-Covenant.†   (source)
  • Nothing seemed real anymore: not the Clave, not the Covenant, not the Law, not even his father.†   (source)
  • Especially a world that looked as much like Old Earth as Maul-Covenant did.†   (source)
  • They are not exactly Covenant, for one thing, and for another, it is rumored you already have one.†   (source)
  • The Covenant was not taken lightly in those final days, Merin.†   (source)
  • We had almost never talked about the time when Maul-Covenant would join the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • It will open a new era of trade and technology for Maul-Covenant.†   (source)
  • Shipmaster Singh and Councilor Halmyn had briefed us on the so-called Separatists of Maui-Covenant.†   (source)
  • I had made that decision when I accepted the eight-mission Maui-Covenant contract.†   (source)
  • 93 gravity of Maui-Covenant seemed much less to me.†   (source)
  • They did not leave me to the mercy of provincial justice on Maui-Covenant.†   (source)
  • He made a covenant with us, just like the Shadowhunters believe Raziel made a covenant with them.†   (source)
  • Taking stupid risks, breaking Covenant Law.†   (source)
  • Ones not bound by the Law, or the Covenant, or the rules of the Clave.†   (source)
  • And a voice returned from the gloom: I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, or promise.†   (source)
  • Do you know that when you drown, he s made a covenant to forget your disease?†   (source)
  • This is the highest of crimes, a breaking of Covenant Law—†   (source)
  • Besides, you know Covenant Law as well as I do.†   (source)
  • Not for those who break our Covenant Laws.†   (source)
  • But killing him is deliberately breaking Covenant Law.†   (source)
  • They upheld the Law, backed by the Covenant, and you couldn't become one of them: You had to be born into it.†   (source)
  • Among the treasures housed within these spaces are over twenty thousand volumes of Masonic writings, a dazzling replica of the Ark of the Covenant, and even a scale model of the throne room in King Solomon's Temple.†   (source)
  • The arc of His covenant, I thought.†   (source)
  • The "Old Covenant" between God and Israel had been replaced by the "New Covenant" which Jesus had established between God and mankind.†   (source)
  • Now that he had finished briefing Vittoria on the Illuminati and their covenant against the Vatican, the scope of this situation was starting to sink in.†   (source)
  • This covenant was renewed when Moses was given the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai around the year 1200 B.C. At that time the Israelites had long been held as slaves in Egypt, but with God's help they were led back to the land of Israel.†   (source)
  • I am having a difficult time accepting that the Illuminati are still active, and yet the appearance of this brand combined with the fact that the Illuminati have a well-known covenant against Vatican City has changed my mind.†   (source)
  • The cells were reserved for the worst of criminals: vampires gone rogue, warlocks who broke the Covenant Law, Shadowhunters who spilled each other's blood.†   (source)
  • People were expecting a military leader who would soon proclaim the establishment of the Kingdom of God, and along comes Jesus in kirtle and sandals telling them that the Kingdom of God— or the "new covenant"—is that you must "love thy neighbor as thyself."†   (source)
  • It was my third visit to Maui-Covenant, our Second Reunion as the poets and her people were calling it.†   (source)
  • Two were b. autiful racing yachts that were used only twice a year to wm the Founder's Regatta and the Covenant Criterium.†   (source)
  • Sol remembered the young woman rising nude from the phosphorescent wake of the motile isle on Maul-Covenant.†   (source)
  • Even more, I look forward to talking to the Sea Folk and telling them that it is time for the Shark to come at last to the seas of Maui-Covenant.†   (source)
  • The Maul-Covenant colonists had a few ancient skimmers still in working order, but by mutual agreement there would be no overflights.†   (source)
  • My father… the Donel whom Aspic mentions… became the first Home Rule Councilor when Maui-Covenant was admitted to the Protectorate.†   (source)
  • "So it is with great" pleasure that I close this circuit and welcome you, the colony of Maui-Covenant, into the community of the Hegemony of Man."†   (source)
  • I was to have my normal leave in the Web but could take no off-Ship R and R while in the Maui-Covenant system.†   (source)
  • I returned to Maul-Covenant briefly after graduation, working in the offices on Central Administration Isle.†   (source)
  • But we could also count on the fact that the only intercourse we would have with the Maul-Covenant colonists would be through buying local artifacts at the duty-free store.†   (source)
  • Their honeymoon was on Maui-Covenant, his first farcast trip abroad, and for three weeks they rented a mobile isle and sailed alone on it through the wonders of the Equatorial Archipelago.†   (source)
  • You are aware, M. Weintraub, that the area you referred to… what we call the Covenant Arks… has recently been declared off limits to so-called researchers by the Home Rule Council of Hyperion?†   (source)
  • The Los Angeles had chosen that moment to rise above the horizon and to float like a wind-borne ember west across the strange constellations of Maui-Covenant, Siri's world.†   (source)
  • There is a burst of X rays tunneling out as the farcaster continues to collapse into itself, but not enough to cause harm through Maui-Covenant's generous atmosphere.†   (source)
  • The Hegemony Ambassador had presented her with a scroll and a new ship, a small submersible powered by the first fusion cells to be allowed on Maul-Covenant.†   (source)
  • Once, after I had taken great care to detail the differences between their ancient seedship and the Los Angeles, Siri astounded me by asking, "But why did it take my ancestors eighty years of shiptime to reach Maul-Covenant when you can make the trip in a hundred and thirty days?"†   (source)
  • Siri knew all about the early days of the Hegira-at least insofar as they pertained to the Maui-Covenant and the colonists-and she occasionally would come up with delightful bits of archaic trivia or phraseology, but she knew nothing of post-Hegira realities.†   (source)
  • For, although Hebron was not my world, the settlers who had fled there had done so for reasons as clear as those of my ancestors who signed the Covenant of Life on the Old Earth island of MauL But I was waiting.†   (source)
  • They can manufacture an interactive holo if they need to-I remembered during the Maui-Covenant incorporation, the TechnoCore ambassadors at the treaty signing looked suspiciously like the old holo star Tyrone Bathwaite.†   (source)
  • And Mani-Covenant has oil?†   (source)
  • The hawking mats were illegal on most Web worlds but still a tradition on Maui-Covenant because of the Siri legend; less than two meters long and a meter wide, the ancient playthings lay waiting to carry tourists out over the sea and back again to the wandering isle.†   (source)
  • Shuttling the workers around their chosen singularity point some one hundred and sixty-three thousand kilometers out from Maul-Covenant was a lot less glamorous for us than the four-month leap from Hegemony-space.†   (source)
  • Incidents . such as the political rebellion on Maui-Covenant, with its unique guerrilla warfare, or the religious insanity on Qom-Riyadh were put down quickly and firmly and any excesses in the campaigns merely pointed out the importance of returning to the strict Code of the New Bushido.†   (source)
  • By the time he used his savings to ship out to Maul-Covenant on an ancient solar sail freighter with jury-rigged Hawking drives, Kassad was still lean and tall by Web standards, but what muscles there were worked wonderfully well by anyone's standards.†   (source)
  • He arrived on Mani-Covenant three days before the vicious and unpopular Island War began there, and eventually the FORCE: combined commander at Firstsite got so tired of seeing the young Kassad waiting in his outer office that he allowed the boy to enlist in the 23rd Supply Regiment as an assistant hydrofoil driver.†   (source)
  • Even in the still shadowed places, glowbirds nestled like Japanese lanterns above lighted walkways, glowing swingvines, and illuminated hanging bridges, while fireflies from Old Earth and radiant gossamers from Maul-Covenant blinked and coded their way through labyrinths of leaves, mixing with constellations sufficiently to fool even the most starwise traveler.†   (source)
  • Maui-Covenant.†   (source)
  • They seemed to have been hand-wrought, their lines curving in to circle around the symbol of the Council— four Cs in a square, standing for Council, Covenant, Clave, and Consul.†   (source)
  • Instead …. well, the Church of the Covenant has these beautiful stained glass windows made by Tiffany in the 1890s.†   (source)
  • Then the Prophet walked down the slope of the dune, to the dozen men who waited for him, their palms dripping blood to seal the covenant.†   (source)
  • "This is the highest of crimes, a breaking of Covenant Law—" "How dare you speak of breaking Covenant Law!"†   (source)
  • She wanted to seize the woman, ask her what Sebastian had demanded she do, ask her why she would ever have broken Covenant Law to work beside Valentine.†   (source)
  • I will have no covenants but proximities.†   (source)
  • Thrice blessed, O our fathers, servants of God, keepers of the covenants!†   (source)
  • It was hard to tell, with all this strange legal jargon, words he had never heard before; but was not this plain—"the party of the first part hereby covenants and agrees to rent to the said party of the second part!"†   (source)
  • Balfour," said he, "I think you are too nice and covenanting, but for all that you have the spirit of a very pretty gentleman.†   (source)
  • Such is the tragic necessity which strict science finds underneath our domestic and neighborly life, irresistibly driving each adult soul as with whips into the desert, and making our warm covenants sentimental and momentary.†   (source)
  • The tenancy of Mr Pancks was limited to one airy bedroom; he covenanting and agreeing with Mr Rugg his landlord, that in consideration of a certain scale of payments accurately defined, and on certain verbal notice duly given, he should be at liberty to elect to share the Sunday breakfast, dinner, tea, or supper, or each or any or all of those repasts or meals of Mr and Miss Rugg (his daughter) in the back-parlour.†   (source)
  • My faith rests on the rock which was the foundation of the faith of my fathers back further than Abraham; on the covenants of the Lord God of Israel.†   (source)
  • …and was himself in all the good they did, even the least; who dwelt with them, a Lawgiver on Sinai, a Guide in the wilderness, in war a Captain, in government a King; who once and again pushed back the curtains of the pavilion which is his resting-place, intolerably bright, and, as a man speaking to men, showed them the right, and the way to happiness, and how they should live, and made them promises binding the strength of his Almightiness with covenants sworn to everlastingly.†   (source)
  • His mere presence there day after day kept them reminded of the covenants and promises of the prophets, and the ages when Jehovah governed the tribes through the sons of Aaron; it was to them a certain sign that he had not abandoned them: so their hopes lived, and served their patience, and helped them wait grimly the son of Judah who was to rule Israel.†   (source)
  • 'To the flames,' you mean to say, 'with battle plans, soldierly calculations, covenants our right hands pledged and pledged with unmixed wine'?†   (source)
  • Similar to Elisha's bear that rushed on the children who were taunting him; or the divine blow that cracked down that Jew so thoughtless as to put out a hand to keep the ark of the covenant from falling off the wagon.†   (source)
  • I the Lord have called thee in righteousness and will hold thine hand and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people for a light of the Gentiles To open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners from the prison And them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.†   (source)
  • The months went by, binding stronger and stronger the covenant between dog and man.†   (source)
  • It's perishing cold; and if I'm no mistaken, they're busking the Covenant for sea."†   (source)
  • This was the ancient covenant that the first wolf that came in from the Wild entered into with man.†   (source)
  • In the words of Job, 'I have made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?'†   (source)
  • Neither of them is by nature inferior to the other; they only become so for a time by covenant.†   (source)
  • Will he the (leviathan) make a covenant with thee?†   (source)
  • Are these things material to our covenant?†   (source)
  • No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.†   (source)
  • The covenant with Jacob was of like effect.†   (source)
  • Heaven was still and faintly luminous and the air sweet to breathe, as in a thicket drenched with showers; and amid peace and shimmering lights and quiet fragrance he made a covenant with his heart.†   (source)
  • The scene was one in "The Covenant," in which the wife listened to the seductive voice of a lover in the absence of her husband.†   (source)
  • "I think it right to tell you, sir." says I, "there's nothing that will bring me on board that Covenant."†   (source)
  • There was a difference between the proposition and the covenant, which she had felt only too quickly.†   (source)
  • "By the law of England may a child enter into covenant and sell itself, my lord?" asked Tom, turning to a learned judge.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER V—THE COVENANT When December was well along, Grey Beaver went on a journey up the Mackenzie.†   (source)
  • I pray to God through the merits of His zealous servant Francis Xavier, that such a soul may be led to sincere repentance and that the holy communion on saint Francis's day of this year may be a lasting covenant between God and that soul.†   (source)
  • The groundwork of the arrangement was the family dresser, which, with its shining handles, and finger-marks, and domestic evidences thick upon it, stood importantly in front, over the tails of the shaft-horses, in its erect and natural position, like some Ark of the Covenant that they were bound to carry reverently.†   (source)
  • It was the evening of his engagement with Carrie and Drouet to see "The Covenant," which had brought him home to make some alterations in his dress.†   (source)
  • He forgot that in the covenant entered into between him and the gods they were pledged to care for him and defend him.†   (source)
  • And I believe he not only meant what he said, but would have done it; so high a place did the Covenant hold in his affections.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER IX THE MAN WITH THE BELT OF GOLD More than a week went by, in which the ill-luck that had hitherto pursued the Covenant upon this voyage grew yet more strongly marked.†   (source)
  • And, like all succeeding wolves and wild dogs that had done likewise, White Fang worked the covenant out for himself.†   (source)
  • "You see, Davie," resumed my uncle, as soon as he saw that I had done, "I have a venture with this man Hoseason, the captain of a trading brig, the Covenant, of Dysart.†   (source)
  • Besides, not only had he abandoned the Wild and his kind when he gave himself up to man, but the terms of the covenant were such that if ever he met Kiche again he would not desert his god to go with her.†   (source)
  • Though it was no good point of sailing for the Covenant, she tore through the seas at a great rate, pitching and straining, and pursued by the westerly swell.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER VII I GO TO SEA IN THE BRIG "COVENANT" OF DYSART I came to myself in darkness, in great pain, bound hand and foot, and deafened by many unfamiliar noises.†   (source)
  • Doubtless it's a great privation; but when I think upon the martyrs, not only to the Scottish Covenant but to other points of Christianity, I think shame to mind it."†   (source)
  • Even so far up the firth, the smell of the sea-water was exceedingly salt and stirring; the Covenant, besides, was beginning to shake out her sails, which hung upon the yards in clusters; and the spirit of all that I beheld put me in thoughts of far voyages and foreign places.†   (source)
  • A skiff, however, lay beside the pier, with some seamen sleeping on the thwarts; this, as Ransome told me, was the brig's boat waiting for the captain; and about half a mile off, and all alone in the anchorage, he showed me the Covenant herself.†   (source)
  • Now, if you and me was to walk over with yon lad, I could see the captain at the Hawes, or maybe on board the Covenant if there was papers to be signed; and so far from a loss of time, we can jog on to the lawyer, Mr. Rankeillor's.†   (source)
  • All this time, you should know, the Covenant was meeting continual head-winds and tumbling up and down against head-seas, so that the scuttle was almost constantly shut, and the forecastle lighted only by a swinging lantern on a beam.†   (source)
  • For mark you here, Mr. David: we could no doubt find some men of the Covenant who would swear to your reclusion; but once they were in the box, we could no longer check their testimony, and some word of your friend Mr. Thomson must certainly crop out.†   (source)
  • We were then passing, it appeared, within some miles of Dysart, where the brig was built, and where old Mrs. Hoseason, the captain's mother, had come some years before to live; and whether outward or inward bound, the Covenant was never suffered to go by that place by day, without a gun fired and colours shown.†   (source)
  • They were not two hundred yards away, when there came a third great sea; and at that the brig lifted clean over the reef; her canvas filled for a moment, and she seemed to sail in chase of them, but settling all the while; and presently she drew down and down, as if a hand was drawing her; and the sea closed over the Covenant of Dysart.†   (source)
  • …machinery and reality with those imaginative graces and delights, without which the heart of infancy will wither up, the sturdiest physical manhood will be morally stark death, and the plainest national prosperity figures can show, will be the Writing on the Wall, — she holding this course as part of no fantastic vow, or bond, or brotherhood, or sisterhood, or pledge, or covenant, or fancy dress, or fancy fair; but simply as a duty to be done, — did Louisa see these things of herself?†   (source)
  • …of God, and advancement of the Christian Faith, and the honour of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia; Do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politick, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid: and by virtue hereof do enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts,…†   (source)
  • I, image of the Godhead, who began— Deeming Eternal Truth secure in nearness— Ye choirs, have ye begun the sweet, consoling chant, Which, through the night of Death, the angels ministrant Sang, God's new Covenant repeating?†   (source)
  • In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master -- the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty and to administer chastisement.†   (source)
  • And if it were not for Christ's covenant, they would slaughter one another down to the last two men on earth.†   (source)
  • As to that, said Sir Launcelot, I will not take your yielding unto me, but so that ye yield you unto Sir Kay the seneschal, on that covenant I will save your lives and else not.†   (source)
  • "You have no warranty for such an audacious doctrine, nor any covenant to support it," cried David who was deeply tinctured with the subtle distinctions which, in his time, and more especially in his province, had been drawn around the beautiful simplicity of revelation, by endeavoring to penetrate the awful mystery of the divine nature, supplying faith by self-sufficiency, and by consequence, involving those who reasoned from such human dogmas in absurdities and doubt; "your temple is…†   (source)
  • His engagement was not to terminate with our arrival at Stapi; he was to continue in my uncle's service for the whole period of his scientific researches, for the remuneration of three rixdales a week (about twelve shillings), but it was an express article of the covenant that his wages should be counted out to him every Saturday at six o'clock in the evening, which, according to him, was one indispensable part of the engagement.†   (source)
  • The airs of the Via Sacra are well enough in the streets of the Egyptian and in Babylon; but in Jerusalem—our Jerusalem—the covenant abides.†   (source)
  • O Lord, our God, who hast poured down the blessings of Thy Truth according to Thy Holy Covenant upon Thy chosen servants, our fathers, from generation to generation, bless Thy servants Konstantin and Ekaterina, and make their troth fast in faith, and union of hearts, and truth, and love….†   (source)
  • "Friend," said the other, exchanging his slow pace for a full stop, "having kept covenant by meeting thee here, it is my purpose now to return whence I came.†   (source)
  • From a radiant centre, over the whole length and breadth of the tranquil firmament, great shoots of light streamed among the early stars, like signs of the blessed later covenant of peace and hope that changed the crown of thorns into a glory.†   (source)
  • But here be it premised, that owing to the unwearied activity with which of late they have been hunted over all four oceans, the Sperm Whales, instead of almost invariably sailing in small detached companies, as in former times, are now frequently met with in extensive herds, sometimes embracing so great a multitude, that it would almost seem as if numerous nations of them had sworn solemn league and covenant for mutual assistance and protection.†   (source)
  • Within the terms of this covenant, the one is a servant, the other a master; beyond it they are two citizens of the commonwealth—two men.†   (source)
  • When the deacon had finished the prayer for the Imperial family, the priest turned to the bridal pair with a book: "Eternal God, that joinest together in love them that were separate," he read in a gentle, piping voice: "who hast ordained the union of holy wedlock that cannot be set asunder, Thou who didst bless Isaac and Rebecca and their descendants, according to Thy Holy Covenant; bless Thy servants, Konstantin and Ekaterina, leading them in the path of all good works.†   (source)
  • [Footnote g: The emigrants were, for the most part, godly Christians from the North of England, who had quitted their native country because they were "studious of reformation, and entered into covenant to walk with one another according to the primitive pattern of the Word of God."†   (source)
  • A similar covenant exists in fact between all the citizens of a democracy: they all feel themselves subject to the same weakness and the same dangers; and their interest, as well as their sympathy, makes it a rule with them to lend each other mutual assistance when required.†   (source)
  • He who offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian,[297] to the great games, where the first-born of the world are the competitors.†   (source)
  • On their part, masters require nothing of their servants but the faithful and rigorous performance of the covenant: they do not ask for marks of respect, they do not claim their love or devoted attachment; it is enough that, as servants, they are exact and honest.†   (source)
  • They consider marriages as a covenant which is often onerous, but every condition of which the parties are strictly bound to fulfil, because they knew all those conditions beforehand, and were perfectly free not to have contracted them.†   (source)
  • By the covenant! it is not to the faithless a man should go to find a faith to keep—and I will not.†   (source)
  • Still further: I swear to thee, Sheik Ilderim—I swear by the covenant the Lord made with my fathers—so thou but give me the revenge I seek, the money and the glory of the race shall be thine.†   (source)
  • Though you travel from Tyre, which is by the sea in the north, to the capital of Edom, which is in the desert south, you will not find a lisper of the Shema, an alms-giver in the Temple, or any one who has ever eaten of the lamb of the Passover, to tell you the kingdom the King is coming to build for us, the children of the covenant, is other than of this world, like our father David's.†   (source)
  • I wot not, said Sir Bors, but such covenant he made with me to be here this day.†   (source)
  • Upon that covenant I tell you my name is Sir Tristram de Liones.†   (source)
  • Truly, said Percivale, in the name of God, well hath my sister holden us covenant.†   (source)
  • "I felt myself," she added, "to be as solemnly engaged to him, as if the strictest legal covenant had bound us to each other."†   (source)
  • On this covenant, said Sir Uwaine, I will forgive it you, so ye will never be about to do such deeds.†   (source)
  • Upon a covenant, said he, I will tell you my name, so that ye will not discover my name, and also that ye will tell me yours.†   (source)
  • But so that ye will yield you unto Sir Kay the Seneschal, on that covenant I will save your lives, and else not.†   (source)
  • Upon this covenant, said Sir Tristram, I will speak with him; that I will turn again so that ye will ensure me not to desire to hear my name.†   (source)
  • And so the covenant was made, there should no man nigh them, nor deal with them, till the one were dead or yelden.†   (source)
  • Upon a covenant I will tell you, said Sir Lamorak, that is, that ye will tell me whether ye be lord of this island or no, that is called Nabon le Noire.†   (source)
  • Upon this covenant thou shalt have thy life, said Sir Bors, so thou go unto Sir Launcelot upon Whitsunday that next cometh, and yield thee unto him as knight recreant.†   (source)
  • But now shalt thou go and thy fellows, and your harness and horses have been fair and clean kept, and ye shall go where it liketh you, upon this covenant, that thou, knight, wilt promise me to be good friend to my sons two that be now alive, and also that thou tell me thy name.†   (source)
  • So Sir Damas and he were agreed that he should fight for him upon this covenant, that all other knights should be delivered; and unto that was Sir Damas sworn unto Arthur, and also to do the battle to the uttermost.†   (source)
  • And so within a while Sir Gareth was nigh whole, and waxed light and jocund, and sang, danced, and gamed; and he and Dame Lionesse were so hot in burning love that they made their covenant at the tenth night after, that she should come to his bed.†   (source)
  • SIR, said Palamides, I promised your Queen Isoud to bring again Dame Bragwaine that she had lost, upon this covenant, that she should grant me a boon that I would ask, and without grudging, outher advisement, she granted me.†   (source)
  • So when the queen saw her knights thus dolefully wounded, and needs must be slain at the last, then for pity and sorrow she cried Sir Meliagrance: Slay not my noble knights, and I will go with thee upon this covenant, that thou save them, and suffer them not to be no more hurt, with this, that they be led with me wheresomever thou leadest me, for I will rather slay myself than I will go with thee, unless that these my noble knights may be in my presence.†   (source)
  • …said Beaumains, wit you well I am full loath to slay this knight, nevertheless he hath done passing ill and shamefully; but insomuch all that he did was at a lady's request I blame him the less; and so for your sake I will release him that he shall have his life upon this covenant, that he go within the castle, and yield him there to the lady, and if she will forgive and quit him, I will well; with this he make her amends of all the trespass he hath done against her and her lands.†   (source)
  • But, damosel, said Sir Launcelot, upon this covenant I will ride with you, so that ye will not rebuke this knight Sir La Cote Male Taile no more; for he is a good knight, and I doubt not he shall prove a noble knight, and for his sake and pity that he should not be destroyed I followed him to succour him in this great need.†   (source)
  • We must remember that though she may have erred grievously in leaving her home, she is still our sister: and it is to be believed that God's uncovenanted mercies are extended towards her, and that she is a member of the flock of Christ."†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncovenanted means not and reverses the meaning of covenanted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • But if he that so Covenanteth, knew before hand he was to expect no other assurance, than the Actors word; then is the Covenant valid; because the Actor in this case maketh himselfe the Author.†   (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She covenanteth" in older English, today we say "She covenants."
  • But to covenant to assist the Soveraign, in doing hurt to another, unlesse he that so covenanteth have a right to doe it himselfe, is not to give him a Right to Punish.†   (source)
  • And this Dominion is then acquired to the Victor, when the Vanquished, to avoyd the present stroke of death, covenanteth either in expresse words, or by other sufficient signes of the Will, that so long as his life, and the liberty of his body is allowed him, the Victor shall have the use thereof, at his pleasure.†   (source)
  • No Covenant, But Of Possible And Future The matter, or subject of a Covenant, is alwayes something that falleth under deliberation; (For to Covenant, is an act of the Will; that is to say an act, and the last act, of deliberation;) and is therefore alwayes understood to be something to come; and which is judged Possible for him that Covenanteth, to performe.†   (source)
  • Let specialities be therefore drawn between us, That covenants may be kept on either hand.†   (source)
  • Chapter, that Covenants, not to defend a mans own body, are voyd.†   (source)
  • And Covenants, without the Sword, are but Words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.†   (source)
  • Nothing then remained previous to the office of the priest, but the office of the lawyers, which threatened to take up so much time, that Western offered to bind himself by all manner of covenants, rather than defer the happiness of the young couple.†   (source)
  • First in the temple of Venus may'st thou see Wrought on the wall, full piteous to behold, The broken sleepes, and the sikes* cold, *sighes The sacred teares, and the waimentings*, *lamentings The fiery strokes of the desirings, That Love's servants in this life endure; The oathes, that their covenants assure.†   (source)
  • Covenants How Made Voyd Men are freed of their Covenants two wayes; by Performing; or by being Forgiven.†   (source)
  • For all men that are not Subjects, are either Enemies, or else they have ceased from being so, by some precedent covenants.†   (source)
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