17 Metaphors for codes

I know what my code of honor is, my lord, and I intend to adhere to it.

His code is more ecclesiastical than that of Theodosius even, the last great Christian emperor.

In the investigation, I had learned, more distinctly than before, that the preceptive code of the Law was an essentially imperfect and temporary system, given "for the hardness of men's hearts."

"By what code of morals is the right or privilege denied me?"Bartlett cor.

To his neighbours he always was kind, He never extended his boundaries, For disputes and contentions, I find, He never saw any just ground arise: Pleasure's code being his statute law

" The italics are mine, for the advocates of Vail have always quoted the first sentence only, and have said that the word "originated" implies that, while Vail admitted that the embryo of the alphabetthe dots and dashes to represent numbers onlywas conceived on the Sully, he did not admit that the alphabetical code was Morse's.

Almost every member of the Convention has individually avowed principles, or committed acts, from which common turpitude would recoil, and, as a legislative body, their whole code has been one unvarying subversion of morals and humanity.

The most probable date, therefore, for the Holiness Code is the decade between the first and second captivity (597-586 B.C.).

Her codes are the most difficult in the world.

The Code, Pandects, Institutes, and Novels are of course the original authority, with the long-lost Institutes of Gaius.

At present, I think that New England Prejudice will soon however get the upper hand here, and tighten her hold of the reins that seemed slipping from her grasp, which is well, for she has long borne aloft the only standard of national morality whose code is not a sliding scale.

The moral code, no matter how accurate may be its precepts, tends to become a dead letter, unless it is constantly revivified by the spirit of religion.

That code was a relic of the dark ages when the Tree of Knowledge grew only in the Garden of Eden.

But, a comprehensive code of false grammar being confessedly the most effectual means of teaching what is true, I have thought fit to supply this portion of my book, not from anonymous or uncertain sources, but from the actual text of other authors, and chiefly from the works of professed grammarians.

Download it for free from Corey's > (sic) site, read the first page, and look away in > disgust this book is for people who think Dan > Brown's Da Vinci Code is great writing.

The International Morse Code is the General Service Code and is prescribed for use by the Army of the United States and between the Army and the Navy of the United States.

The code was incomprehensible.

17 Metaphors for  codes