The Scriptures

Usage examples of holy writ.

He'd become but one more of the thousands of Terra-born scientists exploring millennia of someone else's research and watching it invalidate much of what they'd believed was holy writ.

God himself sent trials to the folk in Holy Writ, for he afflicted Job with leprosy and boils, and he caused Jonah to be swallowed up by a great fish.

He's had him from our mouths so often and so long, he's lived by him like holy writ, and maybe hated him a little while he was loving him, too, for being so far beyond all matching-I wonder did we do right to make him so fixed and fond?

There was a great deal of what Alberichfrom his dispassionate distancerecognized as Holy Writ being quoted, mostly about the poor, the fatherless, and the repentant.

One which will satisfy the backers, the Holy Writ and the viewing public.

I tried to rationalize our relationship to her by pointing out that polygamy was not forbidden by Holy Writ but solely by modern law and custom - and she chopped me off briskly by saying that she had no interest in how many wives or concubines King Solomon had and did not regard him or any Old Testament character as a model for her own behavior.