draconical

Example Sentences

• "Againſt ſuch Witneſſes therefore you may be ſure this Dragon will make war, who in this Chapter is deſcribed under one ſingle Figure of a Red Dragon, the Roman Pagan Emperours being Pontifices Maximi, as well as Caeſars. In the following Chapter this Draconical power is divided into two, there being now ſuch a ſtate in the Roman Empire, as that there may be ſaid to be Imperium in Imperio, the Papal or Sacerdotal Hierarchy diſtinct from the Cæſarean Majeſty and Power."
• "That the dragon and his angels were caſt into the world of ſpirits, whence they are in communication with men on earth, who are in the draconical faith, n. 552, 558."
• "On the basis of U. S. Weather Bureau Historic Weather Maps, the author examined the possible influence of long lunar periods (i.e., the synodical and draconical lunar months) on atmospheric pressure oscillations."
• "And in a Parliament held at Weſtminſter was eſtabliſhed (a) the act of the ſix articles, which was named the bloudy ſtatute, and the whip of ſix ſtrings; which drew ſo much bloud upon poor Chriſtians, and whereof Auricular Confeſſion was one of the ſtrings. The procurer of that Draconical law, together with the occaſion thereof is particularly deſcribed by our Eccleſiaſtical Annaliſt Mr John Fox; whoever was the chief doer therein, Eccleſiaftical perſons were the chief ſufferers."
• "No, these are not imaginary grievances so sneeringly alluded to by the above (liberal and Christian?) correspondent, but real grievances, which penetrate to the hearts and souls of the sufferers, and cry shame on the land calling itself Christian, which can perpetuate or permit such Draconical and inhuman, and, above all, unchristian laws."
• "But there is no question of politics, I am told, but of murder. Of murder? Indeed! Where, then, was murder committed? Where was it even attempted? The accusation itself dares not utter the word of a ‘commencement of execution.[’] What they talk of is a plot, a conspiracy (complot), a different thing altogether, since the most Draconical law has embodied the principle that, as long as no real attempt is made, the conspirators may have altered their mind."