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Man; and by the Rectitude of his Behaviour, to adorn and recommend the holy Religion which he professed, and to approve himself to the all-searching Eye of the Father of
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And so men draw the veil of their pantheistic or monistic philosophy over their hearts, to hide them from His all-searching gaze.
Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation George McCready Price
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Coleridge discovered it by looking into his own soul, and those all-searching Germans pierced to the centre of a disposition quite in keeping with their national character.
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O Thou to whose all-searching sight, [3944] t2. t29.h119-p0.6
The Hymnal [of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA] 1920
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In the all-searching glare of the Mesopotamian sun it is apt to appear merely tawdry.
War in the Garden of Eden Kermit Roosevelt 1916
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The all-searching eye of the French Revolution looks to every part of Europe and every quarter of the world in which can be found an object either of acquisition or plunder.
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They stood with millions upon millions of their kin in the old mother lands, and scattered wide upon the seas, stood with many millions more of peoples and nations, pledging to this same cause of right, life and love and all they held dear, and with hearts open to that all-searching eye, praying that same prayer,
The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land Ralph Connor 1898
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The savage, with his primitive weapons of defense, falls before them as the mists vanish before the all-powerful and all-searching rays of the sun.
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A steamer comes panting down the river, and stops near the grove of willows where I have been trying to hide myself from the all-searching, all-burning sun.
Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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He who may dare to be "all things to all men," must, like St. Paul, have set his feet on the rock Christ Jesus, and be exalted by the continual remembrance of the "cloud of witnesses" in the heavenly kingdom, and the fixed, all-searching glance of the pure eye of God, reading the inmost soul.
The Boy Patriot Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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