All 9 Uses
creed
in
Riders of the Purple Sage
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- He loomed up now in different guise, not as a jealous suitor, but embodying the mysterious despotism she had known from childhood—the power of her creed.†
Chpt 1 *
- It was a prayer, as if forth from those lonely purple reaches and walls of red and clefts of blue might ride a fearless man, neither creed-bound nor creed-mad, who would hold up a restraining hand in the faces of her ruthless people.†
Chpt 1
- It was a prayer, as if forth from those lonely purple reaches and walls of red and clefts of blue might ride a fearless man, neither creed-bound nor creed-mad, who would hold up a restraining hand in the faces of her ruthless people.†
Chpt 1
- Lassiter, the men of my creed are unnaturally cruel.†
Chpt 2
- He had felt the shadow of an unseen hand; he had watched till he saw its dim outline, and then he had traced it to a man's hate, to the rivalry of a Mormon Elder, to the power of a Bishop, to the long, far-reaching arm of a terrible creed.†
Chpt 4
- And her creed gave her boldness far beyond the limit to which vanity would have led her.†
Chpt 11
- Her interpretation of her creed and her religious activity in fidelity to it, her acceptance of mysterious and holy Mormon truths, were all invested in this Bishop.†
Chpt 11
- Her churchmen, however invested with the power and the glory of a wonderful creed, however they sat in inexorable judgment of her, must now practice toward her the simple, common, Christian virtue they professed to preach, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you!"†
Chpt 12
- "Love your enemies as yourself!" was a divine word, entirely free from any church or creed.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(creed) any system of principles or beliefs
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)