Everywhere, from the Sandy Desert, in all the countries of India, the kings had been firm believers in that Law.

Having subdued the kingdom, as he and his captains were sincere believers in the Law of Buddha, and wished to carry off the bowl, they proceeded to present their offerings on a great scale.

"That is a most earnest believer in English superiority, and, one may say, by his strong desire to give you an English husband, Miss Effingham, in English merit.

Mr. Nethercliffe, one of the greatest in his profession, and a thorough believer in all he said, had been often cross-examined by me, and we understood each other very well.

For he was a devout believer in the Christian gospel, and cherished religious convictions for the sake of their influence on the character and the life.

Now I do not say, that all the primitive believers did so.

Some were enthusiastic believers; others, with all their legitimist enthusiasm, were sceptical.

Mr. Becconsall's thoughts were quickened and changed by them; he became a devoted and sincere believer in the new Church; attended its meetings in Cannon-street; was impressed with the idea that better accomodation was required for them; and finally decided to build out of his own pocket, and endow from the same source, a new church in Avenham-road.

The powers claimed as of course so infinitely exceed anything alleged by the most ardent believers in mesmerism, clairvoyance, or spiritualism, that it would be useless to relate the few among these experiments which I remember and might be permitted to repeat.

She was a staunch believer, too, in that peculiar creed which allows every one to feel for the poor, except themselves, and considers that to plead the cause of working-men is, in a gentleman, the perfection of virtue, but in a working-man himself, sheer high treason.

Here again, though a zealous believer of the truth asserted, I must object to the Bishop's logic.

Here is a book, written, not for "orthodox believers," but for those whom the orthodox creeds have wholly repelled from its subject.

Too many supposedly religious people their fellow believers.

Shelley, who was a profound believer in William Godwin's Political Justice, rejected the institution of marriage as being fundamentally irrational and wrongful.

His optimism could not be snuffed out, for he was a genuine believer that the natural tendency of humankind was to do right.

There is a freshness and a depth of feeling in the best Madonnas of the late Spanish school, which puts to shame the mannerism of the Italians, and the naturalism of the Flemish painters of the same period: and this because the Spaniards were intense and enthusiastic believers, not mere thinkers, in art as in religion.

It enabled her to appreciate the religious experiences of men, to portray most accurately and sympathetically a great variety of religious believers, and to give this side of life its place and proportion.

He had forfeited the trust and confidence of the one loyal believer among them all....

Help had come from Valencia, from Madrid, from every corner of Spain, thanks to the whimpering publicity given the inundation in the local press; and since the pious believer must attribute all his boons to the protection of some patron saint, the peasants thanked Rafael and his mother for this alms, resolving to be more faithful than ever to the powerful family.

"By the time I have done with him he will be a confirmed believer.

We had then a long talk with her and it seems she's a regular little believer in Purgatorybut I wouldn't dispute with her.

Its object, according to Stilton, with whom the plan originated, was to obtain a purer spiritual atmosphere, by the exclusion of all but Mediums and those non-mediumistic believers in whose presence the spirits felt at ease, and thus invite communications from the farther and purer spheres.

Is it probable that mere believers, common members of the church, should have ventured to dispute with him, to require an explanation of his conduct, or that he should have thought it necessary to satisfy them by giving one?

Deiotarus was a mighty believer of augury.

The simple-minded believer in free-will would be disregarded by either.