idoll

The questioun was proponed, and it was answered by the said Johne, "That no-wyise it was lauchfull to a Christiane to present him self to that idoll."

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

James Balfour in his Annals, says, this image "was a grate log of wood or idoll, which the priests called Sant Geilles."

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

In the Secound parte he declared, how hard it was to this corrupt nature of ouris not to rejose and putt confidence in the self, when God geveth victorye; and thairfoir how necessare it was that man by afflictioun should be brocht to the knawledge of his awin infirmitie, least that, puffed up with vane confidence, he maik ane idoll of his awin strenth, as did King Nabuchadnezzar.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

Brute himselfe knéeling before the idoll, and holding in his right hand a boll prepared for sacrifice full of wine, and the bloud of a white hinde, spake in this maner as here followeth:

Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8) Raphael Holinshed

But above all expectation, Mr. Prin is the man against it, comparing it to the idoll whose head was of gold, and his body and legs and feet of different metal.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 27: March 1663-64 Samuel Pepys 1668

But above all expectation, Mr. Prin is the man against it, comparing it to the idoll whose head was of gold, and his body and legs and feet of different metal.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

But above all expectation, Mr. Prin is the man against it, comparing it to the idoll whose head was of gold, and his body and legs and feet of different metal.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

But above all expectation, Mr. Prin is the man against it, comparing it to the idoll whose head was of gold, and his body and legs and feet of different metal.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1663/64 Pepys, Samuel 1664

There may be cases where usury may stand with reason and equity, and herein they say so much as by wit may be devised to paint out a foule and ugly idoll, and to shadow themselves in manifest and open wickednesse.

On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

"idoll Maypole" down, and told the junketers that he hoped to hear of their "better walking, else they would find their merry mount but a woful mount."

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881