seven deadly sinsin a sentence
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Each of C. S. Lewis' seven Narnian tales highlight the destructiveness of one of the seven deadly sins.
seven deadly sins = from early Christian teachings: Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Avarice, Gluttony, Lust
- We have to know the Ten Commandments, the Seven Virtues, Divine and Moral, the Seven Sacraments, the Seven Deadly Sins.† (source)
- Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate the seeds of despair; toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins.† (source)
- Each point represented one of the seven deadly sins, though all Baltazar and his friends thought about at this moment were the nuts, candies and dried fruits that lay within, ready to be freed with one good swing of his stick.† (source)
- The seven deadly sins.† (source)
- Also I believe in pride, knowing well that the deadliest of the seven deadly sins is named as pride.† (source)
- Just about all the seven deadly sins: Dissolved their Poor Peasants' Committee, that's one; refused to supply horses to the Red Army, that's two (and they're all Tartars, mind you, horsemen); resisted the mobilization decree, that makes three.† (source)
- Mrs. Minihan didn't mind the odd drop of sherry of a Saturday morning but then he tried to turn her into a Buddhist, which he said he was himself and the Irish would be much better off in general if they sat under a tree and watched the Ten Commandments and the Seven Deadly Sins float down the Shannon and far out to sea.† (source)
- He clattered waeful havers of the seven knights—they being the seven deadly sins, said he—and told me, calm as daylight, that I was but a murdering man masel'.† (source)
- It was a marvellous spotted thing, as effective as the seven deadly sins.† (source)
- That saved your soul from the seven deadly sins.† (source)
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- "Ugliness is one of the seven deadly sins, then?" cried the Duchess.† (source)
- BARBARA [bewildered] The seven deadly sins!† (source)
- On each of the seven days of the week he further prayed that one of the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost might descend upon his soul and drive out of it day by day the seven deadly sins which had defiled it in the past; and he prayed for each gift on its appointed day, confident that it would descend upon him, though it seemed strange to him at times that wisdom and understanding and knowledge were so distinct in their nature that each should be prayed for apart from the others.† (source)
- Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues—faith and hope.† (source)
- And the seven knights betoken the seven deadly sins that reigned that time in the world; and I may liken the good Galahad unto the son of the High Father, that lighted within a maid, and bought all the souls out of thrall, so did Sir Galahad deliver all the maidens out of the woful castle.† (source)
- And the seven knights betoken the seven deadly sins that reigned that time in the world; and I may liken the good Galahad unto the son of the High Father, that lighted within a maid, and bought all the souls out of thrall, so did Sir Galahad deliver all the maidens out of the woful castle.† (source)
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