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"Unsanctioned" Quotes from Famous Books

... received, this form of instruction. The "gentleman at Haydon's" was the hero or victim of a story good, but too long to give here. He said some excessively foolish things and Lamb, after dinner, behaved to him in a fashion possibly not quite undeserved but entirely unsanctioned by the conventions ...

— A Letter Book - Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing • George Saintsbury

... in hand with an exquisite iniquity. In all that she did there was something unsanctioned, something that gave her the secret and essential thrill of sin. When Winny made that beefsteak pie for Ranny she had her first taste of fearful, delicious, illegitimate joy. For it was not right that she should be there making beefsteak pies for Ranny. It was Violet who should have been making beefsteak ...

— The Combined Maze • May Sinclair

... cannot assent to Credner's view of the Greek word for canon being an abbreviation of "Scriptures of canon,"(9) equivalent to Scripturae legis in Diocletian's Act(10)—a view too artificial, and unsanctioned by usage. ...

— The Canon of the Bible • Samuel Davidson

... style of writing brought into full prominence the atrocities of the Suttee, or burning of widows on the funeral pile, a custom with which it was supposed to be impossible to interfere, but which has been proved to be entirely a corrupt practice, unsanctioned by any ancient law, only encouraged by the Brahmins out of avarice. Happily the present generation only knows of these atrocities as almost proverbial expressions, but when the century came in they were ...

— Pioneers and Founders - or, Recent Workers in the Mission field • Charlotte Mary Yonge

Words linked to "Unsanctioned" : unofficial