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  • There, one evening, he recited a modified version of the Galloway Grace (also known as the Covenanter's Grace) a traditional Scottish grace.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • There, one evening, he recited a modified version of the Galloway Grace (also known as the Covenanter's Grace) a traditional Scottish grace.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • Defending the League of Nations, he harked back to the religious declarations of his youth when he declared: “I am a Covenanter!”

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • Defending the League of Nations, he harked back to the religious declarations of his youth when he declared: “I am a Covenanter!”

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • Messervy was proved right: he wasn't a good speaker, but he had a presence, and the mere sight of that Covenanter figurehead, with its flashing eyes and rasping voice, was enough to set them stamping and rummaging in their purses.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Defending the League of Nations, he harked back to the religious declarations of his youth when he declared: “I am a Covenanter!”

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • To me he suggests a Puritan, a Covenanter of the sourest and narrowest type; and I cannot wonder that the

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • What should we say to a Moslem traveller who would make the Calvinism of the sourest Covenanter, model, genuine and ancient Christianity?

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Covenanter or a Puritan, declared to his followers,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • In short, Trumbull appeared a perfect specimen of the rigid old Covenanter, who said only what he thought right, acted on no other principle but that of duty, and, if he committed errors, did so under the full impression that he was serving God rather than man.

    Redgauntlet 2008

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