What is "covenants"

Usage examples of "covenants".

And remember that the Invigilator of the Covenants, chief of all scrutators and a high-ranking member of the Tribunal, is at odds with Count Farmoor over a question of interpretation.

If something was wanted that wasn't on the Lord Paramount's list, if the people of Haven couldn't produce it by traditional methods, approved by God as stated in the covenants, then they had to do without.

All such women were expected to be pious, to have imperturbable poise, rocklike dedication to the covenants, and a broad background of conversational information covering all the fields of general interest in Haven.

The covenants were like a strict nanny, always saying no or don't or can't.

I'm sure there are good reasons for all the covenants, and we have been taught that women are happiest in gracious submission to the covenants.

It happened when they pushed open the heavy, dusty doors to go beyond the wine cellar, past the coal store, into the deep, moist world of otherness, when they left the covenants behind.

Any hint that a girl might be too fond of one of her friends provoked the scrutator, and the Marshal would be much offended to think she could possibly prefer any other role to the frugal, complex, and thankless one that he, God, and the covenants had bestowed upon her.

The covenants that governed the nobility, the covenants on which the world was founded, specified with absolute clarity that there should be no conflicts among noblemen and no stridency among noblewomen.

By the terms of the covenants, you should have another ten years before accepting that responsibility.

Though our total population remains level, in accordance with the covenants, people are always moving about.

There they would be served by angels, allowing their wives, daughters, and other female relatives a well-deserved rest in a separate heaven of their own (as the commentaries on the covenants made clear) where they could flutter on bright wings among the celestial flowers.

They needed no other scripture than the covenants and the commentaries.

If they worshipped anything, they worshipped the covenants their own ancestors had written, though, so it was taught, the writing was done by divine inspiration.

It's within his rights, in accordance with the covenants, so I can't .

There's no covenants ruling what us common folk can do, so I can arrange for one of my cousins to meet this girl and her babe.