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There is no other place that can so much as colourably be drawn to countenance the casting out of the Church faithful men, such as believed the foundation, only for a singular superstructure of their own, proceeding perhaps from a good and pious conscience.

Leviathan 2007

To you our subiects also we command, not to meddle or deale with any wares of strangers colourably, nor to haue them by you in keeping, nor to offer to sel their commodities: but themselues to sel their owne commodities in change or otherwise as they may or can.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Prouided alwayes, that the saide merchants shall not colour any strangers wares, nor bring them into our countrey, nor fauour them colourably, nor sel for any stranger.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

To “face” it, I suppose, is to appear at first view in its defence; and this, indeed, cannot well or colourably be denied, the words of it punctually expressing the very truth we intend to prove thereby; and this, notwithstanding the allaying qualification, “If so much,” must needs somewhat prejudice the ensuing evasions.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

Christ and his appointments in the gospel, if we claim the privilege of being called after his name, some think that if what he hath appointed may be colourably performed another way without respect unto his institutions, that is far the best; but omitting the practice of other men, the things that concern this office in the church are, as was said, clear in the

A Brief Instruction in the Worship of God 1616-1683 1965

Incumbrances due or payable out of or charged on or affecting the same, and that I have not collusively or colourably obtained a Title to or become possessed of the said Lands and Tenements or any Part thereof for the Purpose of enabling me to become a Member of the Senate of

The British North America Act, 1867 Anonymous

Others, that they may colourably and cunningly hide their grosse ignorance, when they know not the cause of the disease, referre it unto charmes, witchcrafts, magnifical incantations and sorcerie.

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

Now this is exactly as if all the horror and heavy punishment, attached in the simplest tribes to parricide, could now be used against any son who had done any act that could colourably be supposed to have worried his father, and so affected his health.

Eugenics and Other Evils 1905

The authorities of the place, or some of them, would have had him spare his pains, and colourably evade the statute by talking instead of lecturing.

The Life of Froude Paul, Herbert 1905

Indeed, Homer's slightly pleading accents were now very colourably imitated by his embittered employer:

Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903