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  • There is too much of this bitter zeale, of this _Hierapicra_ in all our bookes of controversies: but especially there hath been too much in our domesticall warrs; some sonns of _Bichri_ have blowen the trumpet of contention, trumpets of anger; the Churches of God should have no such custome: Oh that our Churches understood that saying.

    A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich Samuel Ward

  • The new mantra is that just as we needed to "heal" by forgiving Nixon after he raped the nation, today we must likewise "heal" by forgiving and forgetting the utter hell the Republicans just put this country through for the last twelve years of trumped up scandal, impeachments, stolen elections, bankrupting the treasury, illegal warrs, and constitution shredding.

    Hullabaloo 2007

  • But yet Lollius did not so make an end of the warrs, but that the

    Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed

  • Then followed a most interesting exhibition "in similitud of warrs," the young men going through the various motions of attack, retreat, and the like, without a word, all the commands being given by "nodding or gesture," the old men meanwhile beating furiously on drums made of

    French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson

  • Lord would put into the hearts both of the governours & parties to these quarrells, once to make an end of these Midianitish warrs; that wee might joyntly powre out the vialls of our zeale upon the throne of the beast.

    A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich Samuel Ward

  • It mentions damage done by the soldiers "in the time of the late warrs," but it also tells us that much lead, wood and iron was taken to Scarborough Castle by Sir Hugh Cholmley, which seems to show conclusively that the place was not defended.

    The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923

  • But in the time of the late warrs, all the floares for the chambering have been pulled down by the Souldiers insomuch the whole howse is ready to fall, there being hardly any thing left to support the Roofe; The owt walles being partly built of Stone and part of Timber and the sparrs which are fastned to the mayne wall of the

    The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923

  • Christian but a woolf, ana belongs not to the sheepfold nor hath he anything to expect of the Kingdom of God, nor may the warrs of the Old

    Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

  • My speeches are no lawe, nor scarce good judgment, for the warrs were unknowen to me 22 yeres agon.

    Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

  • But be assured that the more new captaines that are made, the more will begg, I meane will trouble her Majestie after the warrs, unless the olde be provided for.

    Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

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