heaven-daring

• “We pronounce it the most bloody and heaven-daring arrangement ever made by men for the continuance and protection of a system of the most atrocious villany ever exhibited on earth.”

  Marching orders

• “It is all the better for being marked with an honorable contempt of wicked and heaven-daring laws.”

  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4

• “Were the master, in every case, a wise and good man -- as wise and good as is consistent with this wicked and heaven-daring assumption on his part -- the condition of the slave would it is true, be far more tolerable, than it now is.”

  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4

• “Is not Southern slavery guilty of a most heaven-daring crime, in substituting concubinage for God's institution of marriage?”

  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4

• “And that, because of their bloodshed, perjury, heaven-daring profaneness, debauchery, inhuman and savage cruelty acted upon the people of GOD.”

  Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive

• “The word some interpret by "the giant" in this place, "some heaven-daring rebel who was chained to the sky for his impiety.”

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• “He agitated the question of the dissolution of the Union "in order that the people of the North might be induced to reflect upon their debasement, guilt, and danger in continuing in partnership with heaven-daring oppressors, and thus be led to repentance.”

  William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist

• “How long a more serious collision with the insulting and heaven-daring slave power can be avoided, it is difficult to calculate.”

  Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad; Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave, with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives, Who Gained Their Freedom Through His Instrumentality, and Many Other Incidents

• “They were all embodiments of the man-will: Babels for the incarnation of heaven-daring human aspirations, and so carried within even their colossal proportions the elements of confusion and death.”

  The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

• “But what, by our lax modern standards seem very venial sins of Sabbath-breaking, if indeed any such sins be now recognized at all, to that generation were heinous and heaven-daring.”

  The Duke of Stockbridge

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