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Sentences starting with sacred

Sacred and thrice sacred is the heart, blind fool, that I purpose to-morrow to show to the people, and before which you yourself--if not with good will, then by compulsion--shall fall, prostrate in the dust. [10]

Sentences ending with sacred

At first, as you know, the hope of making him a combatant for the possessions which I have learned through you to regard as the highest and most sacred. [10]
At first he was merely conscious of having gone through a fearful experience, which threatened to fling him far outside the sphere of everything he was wont to reverence and hold sacred. [10]
You must approach this with the profoundest reverence, for it is unutterably sacred. [5]
On the contrary, the Moors reverence cats as something sacred. [5]
And he regarded the covenant made between the states of the two sections as sacred. [9]
And people will say, "Whose business is it what gods I worship and what things hold sacred? [5]
A vow is sacred. [11]
Uarda knew the origin of her mistress's deep grief, and revered her for it, as if it were something sacred. [10]
In England the natural enemy of the rabbit is detested and persecuted; in the Bluff region the natural enemy of the rabbit is honored, and his person is sacred. [5]
And I hated myself for having argued upon a subject that was still sacred. [9]

Short sentences using sacred

As sacred as their work. [5]
For these are sacred, too. [5]
Was the sacred presence there? [5]
Go, sacred thing! [7]
The sacred Ibis [Ibis religiosa. [10]

Sentences containing sacred two or more times

He belongs to the sacred dogfaced apes, [The dog faced baboon, Kynokephalos, was sacred to Toth as the Moongod. [10]
The buzzard is the sacred bird of the South, and you can't touch him; the alligator is the sacred bird of the Government, and you've got to let him alone. [5]
The procession passed the doorway: men bearing banners with sacred texts, acolytes swinging censers, a figure of the Saviour carved in wood borne aloft, the Cure under a silk canopy, and a long line of habitants following with sacred song. [11]
There will then be nothing sacred involved in this Bacon-Shakespeare controversy except what is sacred to me. [5]
Carrying sacred relics and figures of the gods on trays or boats, with emblematic standards, scepters, and cymbals, they moved about the sacred precinct in prescribed order, and most of them fulfilled their duties with devotion and edification. [10]

More example sentences with the word sacred in them

But, pugnaciously as your loud voice summons to the strife, it will never destroy the sacred and venerable things which are worthy to endure. [10]
This touched the young fellow's sympathetic nature, and at the same time gave him the painful sense of being an intruder upon a sacred privacy, an observer of emotions which a stranger ought not to witness. [5]
I say that you can't work the sacred rites of hospitality in a better cause, and what I propose is a little dinner for the purpose of recognizing the hit we've made with this thing. [8]
I told him you and I used the Autocrat as a courting book and marked it all through, and that you keep it in the sacred green box with the love letters, and it pleased him. [5]
It was sacred, yet it was not solemn; peaceful, yet not sombre; rather gentle, aspiring, and clear. [11]
He found a yellow envelope lying on his rickety table, and recognized that it was of a family sacred to the transmission of telegrams. [5]
The king, four years since, had ordered a sculptor to execute a sacred image with the lovely features of the newly-married bride of his charioteer, and Paaker had succeeded in having a duplicate made. [10]
Some, no doubt, would rather have fought than have had peace at the price; but they could not free their minds from the sacred force which had brought most of the crowd of faction-fighters to their knees. [11]
I suppose you would bring some things out into daylight questioning that I had rather leave in that twilight of half-belief peopled with shadows--if they are only shadows--more sacred to me than many realities. [6]
Leave this spot, woman, I command you, in right of my sacred office. [10]
I am not without my friends, and we all stand by each other in our love of home--of sacred home, monsieur. [11]
And after him, with measured steps, a third came with a smoking censer,--the sacred fire with which to kindle the pipe. [9]
When the procession, with its thousand lamps and torches, paused before the hovel, which was almost invisible in the dusk, and one citizen said to another: "Here comes the sacred heart! [10]
My clerical friends will forgive me for poaching on their sacred territory, in return for an occasional raid upon the medical domain of which they have now and then been accused. [3]
So sacred that whoso ventured to mock them or make fun of their work, could not afterward enter any respectable house, even by the back door. [5]
Like my fathers, who have enjoyed the stewardship of it for centuries, I know how to exercise the sacred duties of hospitality. [10]
They met many who greeted them cordially, and numbers of Frank's old club friends summoned him to the sacred fires at his earliest opportunity. [11]
You see the white walls of that temple yonder in the midst of its sacred grove. [10]
The Signora's apartments, which she permitted us to see, were quite in the nature of an oratory, with shrines and sacred pictures and relics of the faith. [4]
Before the vehicle which occasioned this disturbance had reached the temple, it stopped, just outside the sacred acacia-grove, for the neighing of a horse was now audible in that direction. [10]
It is doubtful whether Kamehameha approved of the plan of the chiefs and priests to sacrifice men, as he was known to say, 'The men are sacred for the King;' meaning that they were for the service of his successor. [5]
I insist that whether I shall be a whole man or only the half of one, in comparison with others is a question in which I am somewhat concerned, and one which no other man can have a sacred right of deciding for me. [7]
You will ask, what value could this scheme have, since the secrets of the confessional are sacred and cannot be revealed? [5]
But none asked what these songs of lamentation might signify, for about this sacred place lamentation and mystery for ever lingered. [10]
And she found what she sought; for it seemed to her as if the sound of its sacred rings bore her away into a smiling, sunny landscape. [10]
Indeed some trees were worshipped by the Persians; and as the tree of life in the Hebrew and Egyptian, so we find sacred trees in their Paradise. [10]
In effect they were days of companionship with one's sacred dead, and I have known no comradeship that was so close or so precious. [5]
As the drought went on, almost all the wells in the place dried up, except that of the Tramontano and the one in the suppressed convent of the Sacred Heart,--I think that is its name. [4]
If they come, we'll say the Lord's Prayer, and make the sacred gesture, and if it goes not, we will have one of your good priests to drive out this whining spirit. [11]
It scared people well a couple of hundred years ago when Sir John Marsham and Dr. John Spencer ventured to tell their stories about the sacred ceremonies of the Egyptian priesthood. [6]
Only a few weeks since you swore on my hands to guard the mysteries, and this day you have offered the great secret of the Unnameable one, the most sacred possession of the initiated, like some cheap ware in the open market. [10]
To speak plainly, we despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. [5]
Was there no way of lighting up in her the sacred fire which burnt in him? [10]
To-day its sacred waters are still sweet, but soon it will taste as salt as the north sea with all the tears that have been shed on its banks. [10]
The glowing ruby was transformed into a dark amethyst, and at last assumed the deep hue of a violet; but the eyes of the people continued to dwell on the sacred scenes as though spell-bound. [10]
To her he was the lash searing her flesh, day in day out, year in year out, which kept her sacred to her home. [11]
Henceforth the spot was sacred, and I am sure it stands there as when last I saw it twelve years ago, but worn away by rains and winds. [11]
This old sanctuary was sacred to all--even to rebels in arms and invading armies. [5]
The sewer water was not an offence to them, the corpse did not revolt them; the sacred water had touched both, and both were now snow-pure, and could defile no one. [5]
To me she was never anything but a pretty plaything; still, there were moments when I believed--poor soul!--I first learnt what love meant through you, how great and how sacred it is!--Now you know all; this, indeed, is the truth! [10]
The old man was grieved to turn the weapons they had seized in their sacred ardor, against the seceders from their own cause; but it had to be. [10]
The sacred Nile was dried up, and not a blade of verdure was green on its banks. [10]
To him, art was a sacred thing, and it was impossible for me to regard it with equal seriousness. [9]
All my political warfare has been in favor of the teachings that come forth from these sacred walls. [7]
I have to walk before the sacred images in full ceremonial vestments, and accompanied by the priest of Alexander. [10]
To this the voice of the priests directed him and the cries of the sacred animals were believed to prove a divinity at hand. [10]
It was a violation of both law and the sacred obligations of honor, to overthrow and trample under foot a solemn compromise, obtained by the fearful loss to freedom of one of the fairest of our Western domains. [7]
Leaving the indolent village behind, I passed the Palace, where I beheld the sacred majesty of Tonga on the veranda sleepily flapping the flies from his aged calves, and I could not find that flag. [11]
I shall never view again the citadel on those tall heights where I was detained so barbarously, nor the gracious Manor House at Beauport, sacred to me because of her who dwelt therein--how long ago, how long! [11]
It may be very wrong to pay any attention to those speculations about the origin of mankind which seem to conflict with the Sacred Record. [6]
Mr. Bixby was very willing to open boxes, and to make himself useful and agreeable; but it must be remembered that a good captain of mercenaries owes a sacred duty to his followers. [9]
To step rudely upon the sacred praying mats, with booted feet--a thing not done by any Arab--was to inflict pain upon men who had not offended us in any way. [5]
It was an unpleasant affair; and I do not care to repeat the particulars; but some young men had been using sacred things in a profane and unlawful way, when the occurrence, which was variously explained, took place. [6]
How well I understand the feeling which led the Pisans to load their vessels with earth from the Holy Land, and fill the area of the Campo Santo with that sacred soil! [6]
Now as I understand it, there is only one kind of marriage that is sacred to royalty, exclusive to royalty: it's the morganatic. [5]
There must be two kinds of hair on his tail, and on his tongue an excrescence in the form of the sacred beetle Scarabaeus. [10]
Filled to the turret, he lurched to his feet, and drinking to Sir Hugh's toast, 27 "Her sacred Majesty! [11]
Besides, all commercial transactions in regard to the most sacred interests of life are hateful even to those who profit by them. [6]
From these old towers we looked down upon a broad, far-reaching green plain, glittering with the pools and rivulets which are the sources of the sacred river Jordan. [5]
The Magian then took a mortar, laid some leaves and stalks of the sacred herb Haomas within it, crushed them and poured the ruddy juice, the food of the gods, into the flames. [10]
You think me too shallow and feeble, to endure suffering and death for the sacred cause, which is mine as well as yours! [10]
Some things are too sacred to be set forth on a printed page, and this letter is one of those things. [9]
His faith was too large and too deep for the formulae he found built into the pulpit, and he was too honest to cover up his doubts under the flowing vestments of a sacred calling. [6]
What we buy to-day will surely be taken from us tomorrow, for what oath would be sacred to Philip? [10]
So he went to work to take the style out of his sacred majesty. [5]
It is sacred to them; it is the holy of holies. [5]
Not entirely; for, to the last, he would cram into the satchel sacred to literature any odds and ends of rubbish that he couldn't find a handy place for elsewhere. [5]
It is sacred to poetry and tradition--it is dream-land. [5]
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except towards the things which were sacred to other people. [5]
Yet he spoke to me of his intention to offer himself to his country, and his blood must now be reckoned among the precious sacrifices which will make her soil sacred forever. [6]
It is said to hold particularly sacred water, which must be poured as a libation to the god at sunrise, unmixed with any other. [10]
You owe obligations to her ten thousand times more sacred than you can owe to others, and in that light let them be respected and observed. [7]
They were sacred to her own solitude. [11]
Sophonisba's home was to have become his, and it had never entered his mind to limit the period of his enjoyment and study on the sacred soil. [10]
I must submit to double severity, he says, because the people look first to those of the highest rank; and if I went unpunished for contempt of the sacred institutions there might be imitators among the crowd. [10]
The ground ought to be measurably sacred by this time, one would think. [5]
In these unsettled times our sacred lore is like a chariot on the declivity of a precipice, and under the wheels thereof a stone. [10]
We wander on through the huge and massive gates of entrance, between the ranks of sacred animals. [10]
On its walls thou canst behold pleasing paintings of the gods to whom thou hast devoted thy life, the most sacred chapters from the book of the dead, and many other beautiful pictures touching thine own life and character. [10]
Many years hast thou angered me by thy coldness, hardness and obstinacy; to-day thou hast wounded me again in my most sacred feelings; this hurried me into an excess of wrath. [10]
The crown of thorns was made of real thorns, and was nailed to the sacred head. [5]
Do not forget this, and especially be careful not to ridicule the sacred animals. [10]
You must remove this restriction, too, from the sacred right of self-government. [7]
Now she dreaded this newly recognised sinful part of her own nature, which she had imagined a pure vessel that had room only for what was noble, sacred, and innocent. [10]
How different was this man's wooing--its impetuous, audacious, tender violence, with that quiet, powerful, almost sacred gravity of her Camisard lover! [11]
The name of this ceremony is uko; and when the sacred hog was baked the priest offered it to the dead body, and it became a god, the King at the same time repeating the customary prayers. [5]
Children are sacred things," said Augusta Maturin. [9]
Besides, beyond this thing she regarded as a sacred obligation thrust upon her, was the need of a helper, of a friend, of a champion in this critical time. [13]
The servants said they would follow the fashion, a fashion grown sacred through immemorial observance; they would scatter fresh rushes in all the rooms and halls, and then the evidence of the aristocratic visitation would be no longer visible. [5]
The Prophet read thereon the Sacred Countersign of the hillsmen. [11]
Go and take them, Beki; it is our duty to save the sacred animals from starving to death. [10]
The god beckoned them to come, and as we passed out the Rajah was kneeling and reverently kissing his sacred feet. [5]
What passed between them seems too sacred to write about. [9]
The Israelites held them sacred in the old patriarchal times, and these other Arabs, their lineal descendants, do so likewise. [5]
Then they open their throttle valves, and how they do brag, and sneer, and swell, and soar, and blaspheme the sacred name of Truth! [5]
The Turks have their sacred relics, like the Catholics. [5]
The veil between the two, which for one sacred moment had seemed about to lift, was fallen now, leaded and weighted at the bottom. [11]
The sword and the strangling-cloth were sacred emblems. [5]
And Froebel touched the sensitive spot in the young minister, who was thoroughly imbued with the sacred beauty of his life-task, yet certainly knew the Gospels, his classic authors, and apostolic fathers much better than he did the world. [10]
The rooms of the second story, the chambers of birth and death, are sacred to silent memories. [6]

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