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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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VOL'LEY, n. plu. volleys. [L. volo.]
VOL'LEY, v.t. to discharge with a volley.
VOL'LEY, v.i. To throw out or discharge at once.
A flight of missiles, as
arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of
small arms.
Fiery darts in flaming volleys flew. Milton. Each volley tells that thousands cease to breathe. Byron. A burst or emission of many things at once; as,
a volley of words.
"This volley of oaths." B.
Jonson.
Rattling nonsense in full volleys breaks. Pope. A return of
the ball before it touches the ground.
To discharge with, or as with, a volley.
To be
thrown out, or discharged, at once] to be discharged in a volley, or as if
in a volley; to make a volley or volleys.
Tennyson. To return
the ball before it touches the ground.
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