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  • The difference is essential as that between the penal code with its narrow forbiddal, and the broad commandment which is a guide rather than a task-master.

    The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi 2003

  • Margaret, and her love, and her lover, and her lover's genealogy, and her father's forbiddal of their marriage, all these were daily herbs to those who loved us, daily bread to native gossip-mongers, and daily luxury to all who wished us ill.

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • I feared he was about to speak again and I raised my hand to signify forbiddal -- but he saw it not, and my inward protest yielded to his fiery purpose.

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • The priests and elders among early folk no doubt took the line of forbiddal of activities, as safer and simpler, even if carried sometimes too far, than the opposite, of easy permission and encouragement.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • At some early period the forbiddal of marriage between those who bore the same totem-name took place.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • In it consciousness is not employed as a positive guiding force, but the moment inhibition or check is required for reaching the intended result, consciousness is ready and asserts itself in the way of forbiddal.

    The Nature of Goodness George Herbert Palmer 1887

  • At some early period the forbiddal of marriage between those who bore the same totem-name took place.

    Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning Edward Carpenter 1886

  • Only Madame Hayle was allowed to do that, and the parson's wife, being quite without madame's art of doing as she pleased, had had to submit conscience and compassions to the captain's forbiddal, repeated by the commodore and Hugh.

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

  • Also bidding and forbiddal were left in the youth's hand and he was promoted and preferred by the monarch like his maternal uncle and even more, whilst the ex-Wazir took his rest in retirement, nor was it his habit to visit the King save once after a while, when he would fare forth to salute him with the salam and forthwith return home.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Presently the King said, "O damsels, ye cannot but know that the Sultan proclaimed forbiddal of wick-burning; but ye have lighted your lamps and have not obeyed him when all the citizens have accepted his commandment."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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