shibboleth

• The $1 million shibboleth is a favorite of college barkers. —  linkfilter.net - fresh links
• Perhaps it is a kind of shibboleth, by which the faithful can be distinguished. —  Notes from underground
• That was the shibboleth, and very needful too; for, as it was the rule to keep our glory contained, none could recognize a lantern-bearer, unless (like the pole-cat) by the smell. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
• Loyalty to their shibboleth was beginning to draw them, still grumbling and making use of expressive imprecations, on the way to the nearest polling-station, when one of their leaders drew Professor Roberts aside, and asked him Are the bhoys to have nothin' for their throuble? —  Gulmore, The Boss
• Indeed, it had latterly been their great shibboleth--latterly; that is, since their other greater shibboleths had been cut from under their feet At that time men had not learnt thoroughly by experience, as now they have, that no reform, no innovation--experience almost justifies us in saying no revolution--stinks so foully in the nostrils of an English Tory politician as to be absolutely irreconcilable to him. —  The Bertrams

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