Married women taken at "conventicles," were sentenced to twelve months 'imprisonment. ❋ John Lord (1852)
The government took strong measures for suppressing dissenters 'meetings or "conventicles;" and the poor Quakers, although not at all implicated in the disturbance, suffered more severely than any others. ❋ John Greenleaf Whittier (1849)
We were imagism, cubism, the conventicles and sects respected now by credulous universities. ❋ Unknown (2009)
If she will merely submit to the lobotomy, have the microchip installed and join us in our secret conventicles where we drink the blood of Ronald Reagan while chanting the sacred syllables "ohhhhh-BAHHHH-mahhhhh" it would all become clear to her. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Another worthy of the same school, and nearly the same views of the military character, is Sir James Turner, a soldier of fortune, who rose to considerable rank in the reign of Charles II., had a command in Galloway and Dumfries-shire, for the suppression of conventicles, and was made prisoner by the insurgent Covenanters in that rising which was followed by the battle of Pentland. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I've been to many other conventicles since then and am still, at 60, sorting things out. ❋ Anne Johnson (2008)
In the second place, though everyone is to be given liberty to speak out his opinion, yet great conventicles are to be forbidden. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The Christian sects which are tolerated have only private assemblies, “conventicles.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
For the vulgar, restrain them by laws, mulcts, burn their books, forbid their conventicles; for when the cause is taken away, the effect will soon cease. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Euphrates in [6724] Assyria will look still towards you, sit where you will in her temple, she stares full upon you, if you go by, she follows with her eye, in all sites, places, conventicles, actions, our conscience will be still ready to accuse us. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The teaching of the Council that the Orthodox Churches are, in fact, true particular Churches rather than simply schismatic conventicles fundamentally compromises Papal supremacy and universal ordinary jurisdiction. ❋ Mike L (2007)
For the conventicles, let be! and the same for yon solemn fule, ❋ Unknown (2005)
She was a great keeper of conventicles; would ride ten miles to one, and when she was fined, rejoiced greatly to suffer for the Kirk; but it was rather her husband that suffered. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Montroymont alleged he was at the end of possibilities; it was no longer within his power to pay the annual rents; she had served him basely by keeping conventicles while he lay in prison for her sake; his friends were weary, and there was nothing else before him but the entire loss of the family lands, and to begin life again by the wayside as a common beggar. ❋ Unknown (2005)
It scarce seemed she had any gratitude to him; she came out of gaol herself, and plunged immediately deeper in conventicles, resetting recusants, and all her old, expensive folly, only with greater vigour and openness, because Montroymont was safe in the Tolbooth and she had no witness to consider. ❋ Unknown (2005)
MY DEAR FRIEND: Mr. Harte, who in all his letters gives you some dash of panegyric, told me in his last a thing that pleases me extremely; which was that at Rome you had constantly preferred the established Italian assemblies to the English conventicles setup against them by dissenting ❋ Unknown (2005)
