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- adjective Having no
Sabbath .
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Examples
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To my intense delight after so many Sabbathless Sundays, I found myself privileged to conduct a well-attended parade service for the
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry
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From "The three Sisters," which we reached on our Sabbathless Sunday, we tramped all day on Monday till we reached a tributary of the
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry
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"I wonder," he mused aloud, "if it has the same Sunday look to these Sabbathless Italians as it has to us."
Indian Summer William Dean Howells 1878
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Accursed damned desks, trade, commerce, business -- Inventions of that old original busybody brainworking Satan, Sabbathless restless Satan --
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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And although men should refrain themselves from injury and evil arts, yet this incessant and Sabbathless pursuit of a man's fortune leaveth not tribute which we owe to God of our time; who (we see) demandeth a tenth of our substance, and a seventh, which is more strict, of our time: and it is to small purpose to have an erected face towards heaven, and a perpetual grovelling spirit upon earth, eating dust as doth the serpent, Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593
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