They know him, the covenanter, by rote at least, for a chameleon at last, in his true falseheaven colours from ultraviolent to subred tissues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

Mediaeval abbot and crusader, cavalier and covenanter, Elizabeth and Cromwell, spoke once more with a living voice to ears which were opened to hear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference

But if the covenanter be one of the better rank, the devil only draws blood of the party, or touches him or her in some part of the body, without any visible mark remaining.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

In her desperate plight she besought her grandfather's clemency and forgiveness but that rigid old covenanter had declared that even as she had made her bed in willful disobedience to his command so she should lie on it for all of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference

= Peggy =, grandchild of the old widow Maclure, a covenanter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference

The patriot is a patriot still; and the covenanter is a covenanter still.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ordinance of Covenanting] Reference

Middleton, like the Marquis of Montrose, had been at one time a covenanter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference

You must bid high for the honour of a covenanter, for a part in this privilege.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation] Reference

He was cousin of Burnet, and son of an eminent covenanter who had, soon after the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2] Reference

To that sacrifice, the ancient covenanter, presenting his oblation, looked forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ordinance of Covenanting] Reference

The fanaticism of the covenanter and the sad grace of Petrarch seem to meet in Milton's monody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton] Reference

In 1782 these new seceder and covenanter bodies united under the name of Associate Reformed Presbyterian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

He was such a zealous professor, that when the test was first framed, he could boast that he was an actual covenanter, and so scorned it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference

Under His gracious influence, the bonds of prejudice against covenanting are as green withs and the covenanter stands forth in liberty and in power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation] Reference

The press began timidly to venture on books of amusement, in a style of humour which seemed ribald and heathenish to the staid and sober covenanter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton] Reference

Whereas he goes about looking as sober as a covenanter that expected the day of judgment to-morrow and knew he was predestinated for one O 'the goats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.] Reference

A covenant to do any action at a certain time and place, is then dissolved by the covenanter, when that time cometh, either by the performance, or by the violation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Law Natural and Politic] Reference

And if I were asked to explain this originality, I should say that he was a covenanter coming in the wake of the eighteenth century and the transcendental philosophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Choice of Books] Reference

The old covenanter seems to have told Charles some plain truths, and the king in return forgot the courtesy which so distinguished him, and retorted that Rothes was a liar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Book of Heroes] Reference

But a covenant not to do, without time limited, which is as much as to say, a covenant never to do, is dissolved by the covenanter then only, when he violateth it, or dieth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Law Natural and Politic] Reference

Milton that, even in this moment of peril, he stood up for his rights, and refused to pay an overcharge, which the official thought he might safely exact from a rebel and a covenanter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton] Reference

A bishop chanting his psalter under the groined roof of cathedral, and a covenanter praying in his hill-side cave, would form an admirable picture of two very different styles of devotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge] Reference

"It was better than the law," he said, "because if any one came upon them for taxes they had only to go to a brother-covenanter, and be he a peer or parliament-man, he was bound to support them.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel] Reference

When the ten tribes began to divide from the other two tribes, they presently began to war one against another, and to ruin one another: the anti-covenanter, he divides and separates and disunites.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation] Reference

Orkney; and having alway run greedily after the error of Balaam, from a zealous covenanter he became a fiery bigot for prelacy, and was the first after the restoration that wrote in defence of that constitution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference

Quite at the head of the same valley, at a place called Craighaugh, on Eskdale Muir, one Hislop, a young covenanter, was shot by Johnstone's men, and buried where he fell; a gray slabstone still marking the place of his rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Thomas Telford]

It was a little prior to the revolution, a period when being a Scots covenanter was being a felon, that one of their clergy, who was at that very time hunted by the merciless soldiery, fell in, by accident, with a party of the military.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference

Rusco Castle was too near Anwoth Kirk and Anwoth Manse, and its owner had had Samuel Rutherford too long for his minister and his near neighbour to make it possible for him to be 'ane cold covenanter quha did not do his dewtie in everything committed to his charge thankfullie and willinglie.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents] Reference

A little drummer-boy, who was wantonly shot down by a covenanter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Book of Heroes] Reference

"The Earl of Lauderdale," says Burnet, "afterwards made Duke, had been for many years a zealous covenanter; but in the year 47 he turned to the King's interests; and had continued a prisoner all the while after Worcester fight, where he was taken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference

Each zealous covenanter!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author] Reference

covenanter is living.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference