"Sanctioned" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... employed to accomplish it afterwards represent angels; and that the separation which the Lord prohibited was spiritual, while that which he permitted was physical. In regard to the separation which he sanctioned, the Lord interprets what the operation is, and who are the operators; whereas, in regard to the separation at an earlier date proposed, he gives no interpretation. Instead of beginning by giving my own assumption as to the meaning of the uninterpreted part, I go ...
— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot
... ordinary readers might be pardoned for thinking that Old Norse literature, like Old Norse history, was written in blood. We have seen that Gray's imitators perpetuated the old idea, and that even Scott sanctioned it, and now we see England's emancipation from it. The grouty old Scotchman of Craigenputtoch knew no more Icelandic than most of his fellow countrymen (be it noted that he said: "From the Humber upwards, all over Scotland, the speech of the common people is still in a singular ...
— The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature • Conrad Hjalmar Nordby
... dissipation up to any limit, this side of disorderliness in public. Drinking, gambling, and other forms of vice are provided for the citizens of Berlin comfortably and, comparatively speaking, cheaply. Lotteries are sanctioned by all the states, and they use this incentive to the worst form of gambling for all sorts of purposes, from repairing churches to building patriotic monuments, ...
— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier
... objections, because then I can meet them. How can the Sabbath be a Jewish institution when the commandment begins with 'remember'? The day to be remembered was instituted at Creation, given to man as a blessed day of rest from toil, and recognised as binding by our Saviour, when He sanctioned works of necessity and mercy ...
— The Big Otter • R.M. Ballantyne
... had said it, sir—perhaps I ought to have said it,' said poor Mr. Coxe, in a hurry of anxiety, 'what would have been your answer? Would you have sanctioned my passion, sir?' ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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