Use sanctuary in a sentence
Sentences ending with sanctuary
- She gave a timid knock at the door of that awful sanctuary. [6]
- As in the Temple of Osiris at Abydos seven corridors, here three led to the same number of apartments, the holy place of the sanctuary. [10]
- Well, I ask such sanctuary. [11]
- And at the same time to know that the Demeter, on whom you bestowed the features of the daughter of Archias, was kindling the whole great city of Alexandria with enthusiasm, and drawing countless worshippers to her sanctuary! [10]
- Home--where the business of this poor wayfarer's existence was carried on, where the shopkeeper sold her wares in the inner sanctuary! [11]
- From morning till night the great temple swarmed with visitors, but their appearance and demeanor were more befitting the market-place or public bath than the sanctuary. [10]
- As his way led past the Temple of Demeter, he stopped near it and was guided to the sanctuary. [10]
- When he entered it, a thrill ran through his frame; it seemed as if he were penetrating into some forbidden sanctuary. [10]
- Many of the inhabitants of the Necropolis had collected on either side of the lines of sphinxes, between which the princess drove up to the Sanctuary. [10]
- He did everything in his power to soothe her; his gentle and tender tones comforted her, and she nodded to him more happily, following him into the sanctuary. [10]
More example sentences with the word sanctuary in them
- And this was why harried cats and outlawed dogs that knew him confidently took sanctuary under his chair in time of trouble. [5]
- It was Archibius, who with grave composure bade them follow him, and silently led them around the sanctuary to a side door, through which, a short time before, a litter had passed, accompanied by several attendants. [10]
- The high priest who came forward upheld his subordinates and, after a short dispute, Hermon left the sanctuary with his wish unfulfilled. [10]
- In fact, it was the control of the subterranean corridors of the sanctuary which had suggested to Gorgias the idea of carrying Dion through them to Pyrrhus's fishing-boat. [10]
- This old sanctuary was sacred to all--even to rebels in arms and invading armies. [5]
- They had been warned to pray and repent of their sins, for at the moment when the holiest sanctuary on earth should fall the whole world would crumble into nothingness. [10]
- Woman in her very nature is created to be sheltered and protected; and the yearning in her, when her love is given, is intense as nature itself to seek sanctuary in that love. [9]
- This sanctuary rested upon a lofty foundation, and a long flight of steps led to the cella. [10]
- The old man turned to look at the sanctuary which, as yet, remained intact. [10]
- Then she asked to see the architect's plan for joining the museum to the sanctuary, and became absorbed in the first sketch, to which he had devoted part of the night and morning. [10]
- The first thing to be done now is to avert the blow which the Bishop intends shall strike us by the hand of Cynegius--it has already fallen on the magnificent sanctuary of the Apamaean Zeus. [10]
- Was the groaning throng of restless spirits which his grandson had pointed out to him from the observatory, pouring into the sanctuary of the gods? [10]
- It was as though I had suddenly entered an unimagined sanctuary filled with holy flame.... [9]
- Presently, from among them, one man rises, goes to the steps of the sanctuary and kneels. [11]
- I heard distinctly the voice of the Divinity in the sanctuary, and strange indeed was the speech that met my ear. [10]
- No sooner had the town heard with bated breath of the expulsion of the first citizen from the inner sanctuary of the post-office, than the news of another event began to go the rounds. [9]
- The doors of the sanctuary were closed, and guarded by soldiers; but the southern and western walls were surrounded by thousands and thousands of heathen. [10]
- The gates of the sanctuary screen were closed, the curtain was slowly drawn, and from behind it a soft mysterious voice pronounced some words. [2]
- The inside of the little sanctuary was a cool and still retreat. [10]
- The Honourable was the first to reach the point of vantage, and to look down upon the vast and wandering fissures, the frigid bulwarks, the great fortresses of ice, the ceaseless snows, the aisles of this mountain sanctuary through which Nature's splendid anthems rolled. [11]
- For on this, the first night after the new moon in the month of Pharmuthi, the sanctuary in bygone years was always adorned with flowers. [10]
- He had entered the cella of the sanctuary with the expectation of finding a peculiar, probably a powerful work, but one repugnant to his taste, and left it fairly overpowered by the beauty of this noble work of art. [10]
- The shrill rattle that followed proceeded from the metal bolts which an old servant of the sanctuary had shot into the sockets. [10]
- To have done so would have seemed as shameful as the pillage of an unguarded sanctuary or the abuse of a wounded hero. [10]
- She wished to seek the sanctuary unnoticed and, accompanied only by Iras and the chief Introducer, went, closely veiled, to the neighbouring temple at the Corner of the Muses. [10]
- Nemu left the sanctuary to his left, and rode up the steep hill-path which was the nearest way from the plain to the valley of the tombs. [10]
- Ere entering the sanctuary she had imagined that she knew how the criminals whom she had sentenced to death must feel. [10]
- Many have sought sanctuary here, but they were not worthy, and were turned away. [5]
- He liked this room of his, which still retained something of that flavour of a refuge and sanctuary it had so eminently possessed in the now forgotten days of matrimonial conflict. [9]
- Her sanctuary is on the shore of Lake Mareotis and mother found it at once. [10]
- Balbilla accompanied Caesar on a visit to the sanctuary of Ammon, on the eastern shore of the Nile. [10]
- From all parts of the sanctuary, even from the tops of the roofs, he beheld laurel branches and kerchiefs waving and tossing, and wreaths flung on the ground before him. [10]
- The first court-yard of the sanctuary was astir with life. [10]
- The great doors of the pylon were wide open, and afforded a view into the forecourt of the sanctuary, paved with polished squares of stone, and surrounded on three sides with colonnades. [10]
- Here you can obtain not only the latest news from home, but from the rest of the world, and this house is an inviolable sanctuary for the persecuted, Rhodopis possessing a royal warrant which secures her from every molestation on the part of the police. [10]
- Why was he now silent, why had he nothing to answer, since she had confessed to him the deepest secret of her breast, and allowed him to look into the inmost sanctuary of her heart? [10]
- Just as two neighboring cities may be joined by a bridge, so the Greek temple of Serapis--to which the water-bearers belonged--was connected with the Egyptian sanctuary of Osiris-Apis by the fine paved road for processions along which Klea now rapidly proceeded. [10]
- The sun was near setting when they reached the little sanctuary of the 'Emerald-Hathor. [10]
- The little sanctuary near her father's house was the resort of none but Greeks. [10]
- Unexpectedly, in the middle of the service, and not in the usual order Natasha knew so well, the deacon brought out a small stool, the one he knelt on when praying on Trinity Sunday, and placed it before the doors of the sanctuary screen. [2]
- Its colossal staircase, like a huge serpent, wound round and round the ever-diminishing series of stories composing the tower, until it reached the summit crowned by the sanctuary itself. [10]
- The high-priest had learned that she had secretly quitted the temple: when she was alone with him in a quiet room he asked her gravely and severely, why she had broken the laws and left the sanctuary without his permission. [10]
- From the steps leading to the cella of the sanctuary a procession, whose length seemed endless, came towards them. [10]
- They wanted to lay hands on his sanctuary but you and your disciples put them to rout. [10]
- They had lighted large fires in front of the most sacred sanctuary of a great city, as though they were in the open field. [10]
- When cups were lacking the jugs and vessels from the sanctuary were sent for, and passed from one to another. [10]
- Every pure spot, it seems to me, may be the chosen sanctuary of some divinity, and is not an infant's soul purer than the altar where truth is mocked at? [10]
- The best Demeter is to be placed in the Alexandrian temple of the goddess, to whose priestesses you belong; the less successful one in your own house in the city, but whose Demeter is destined for the sanctuary, I repeat, is now virtually decided. [10]
- As the sanctuary is so near, you need leave the palace only a short time. [10]
- This would have interested the citizens but it was too many on one to amount to anything as a fight, and so they commanded the peace and the foreign dog coiled his tail and took sanctuary under the wagon. [5]
- The sanctuary was indeed the centre of Hellenic culture in the city of Alexander; what marvel then, that the heathen should believe that with the overthrow of Serapis and his temple, the earth, nay the universe itself must sink into the abyss? [10]
- I shall be in the sanctuary of the goddess from the first hour after sunset. [10]
- The routed rebels in the lost battle for idolatry fled to this place to claim sanctuary, and many were thus saved. [5]
- This was done in a few minutes, and the priests were witnesses of the most painful, scene which had occurred for years in their quiet sanctuary. [10]
- Beside a beautiful image which he treasured in the sanctuary of his memories, only allowing his mind to dwell upon it in his happiest hours, sought to intrude. [10]
- Then a solemn hymn was chanted as the curtain was raised; and while the assembled multitude watched it rise in reverent silence, the temple-servants lighted the lamps that illuminated the sanctuary from every cornice and pillar. [10]
- The nations to his sanctuary throng, And kings, struck dumb, cast down their golden crowns. [10]
- The architect led his friend to the Queen's mausoleum near the sanctuary, where men were toiling busily by torchlight. [10]
- For an hour his eyes were fixed, now on the desert behind him, whence pursuit should come, now on the golden-pink hills before him, where was sanctuary for a moment, at least. [11]
- Mr. Boner, in his excellent description of the habits of the red-deer in Germany ('Forest Creatures,' 1861, p. 81) says, "while the stag is defending his rights against one intruder, another invades the sanctuary of his harem, and carries off trophy after trophy. [1]
- The haruspex showed him Ameni's ring, by which, during his residence in Thebes, he made him his plenipotentiary, degraded Pentaur from his dignity, but ordered him not to quit the sanctuary till further notice, and then finally departed from the temple of Hatasu. [10]
- Had she broken her doll, had Mammy Easter been cross, had lessons gone wrong at school, was she ill, or weary with that heaviness of spirit which is woman's inevitable lot,--this was her sanctuary. [9]
- At the entrance he asked for the high-priest and was begged by one of the inferior priests to wait, as the great Neithotep was at that moment praying in the holiest sanctuary of the exalted Queen of Heaven. [10]
- Here Fate might have its way; she had known the highest joy she had ever dreamed of, and where on earth was there a sublimer tomb than this sanctuary of the sovereign of the universe, whose supremacy even the other gods acknowledged with trembling! [10]
- She wished to have it adjoin the Temple of Isis, her goddess--I proposed the great sanctuary in the Rhakotis quarter, but she objected--she wished to have it close to the palace at Lochias. [10]
- Neither could it have been expected by you that party spirit, however strong its desires and unreasonable its demands, would have passed the sanctuary of the Constitution, and entered with its unhallowed and hideous form into the formation of the judiciary system. [7]
- Though he who had offended her by such base proposals was but a priest of the lower grade--and indeed, though she knew it not, was since dead--she feared meeting him again, and had avoided the sanctuary where he officiated. [10]
- A dense crowd had gathered around the hill on whose summit the sanctuary of Pan dominated the spacious garden. [10]
- From Pharan she had crossed the mountains to the oasis, where the sanctuary she was to visit stood on the northern side. [10]
- How many others had brought their troubles here, had been lightened on the very threshold of this sanctuary! [9]
- She crossed the great hall of the sanctuary, which was open only to the initiated and to the temple-servants, of whom she was one. [10]
- These assembled here from all parts of Egypt, and were glad to pass a night under the protection of the sanctuary. [10]
- The bishop came forth from behind the screen of the inner sanctuary, poured some wine into a silver cup and crumbled into it two little cakes stamped with the Coptic cross. [10]
- The garlands of flowers, which Gorgo herself had helped some damsels of her acquaintance to twine for the temple of Isis, lay in a heap-the steward had told her that the venerable sanctuary was to be closed and surrounded by soldiers. [10]
- Property, that sacred fabric of government, had been attacked and destroyed, law had been defied, and yet the City Hall, the sanctuary of American tradition, was turned over to the alien mob for a continuous series of mass meetings. [9]
- When had they ever entered the sanctuary for this purpose in orderly procession, solemnly chanting hymns? [10]
- When Philip now entered this sanctuary, the Duke nodded and motioned him to a chair. [11]
- He was talking eagerly to a younger man, but had paused with the others in front of the sanctuary to greet the architect. [10]
- It was even doubtful if a bondsman might be admitted into the inner apartments of the sanctuary. [10]
- But, tell me--how did you feel as you left the sanctuary? [10]
- The midnight heavens, decked with countless stars, spanned with their cloudless azure vault the flat plains of the eastern Delta and the city of Succoth, called by the Egyptians, from their sanctuary, the place of the god Tum, or Pithom. [10]
- This had been constructed in a large hall, originally the largest of the laboratories, where incense was prepared for the sanctuary and medicines concocted for the sick in the temple hospital. [10]
- As the night closed in we took sanctuary in the Salt Lake House and unpacked our baggage. [5]
- A dim lamp burned in the deep vestibule, as in a sanctuary. [9]
- It was dimly borne in on him, as he gazed at the hospital in the distance, that this thing called Love, which seizes upon our innermost selves, which takes up residence in the inner sanctuary, may not be dislodged. [11]
- Those who had been so happy as to escape in the defence of the sanctuary and had mingled with the crowd were besieged with questions, and all agreed that the statue of the god was as yet inviolate. [10]
- Great sums had been expended for its establishment, for the maintenance of the priesthood of its sanctuary, and the support of the institutions connected with it. [10]
- As the sun arose in radiance he reached the sanctuary. [10]
- This proposal was approved, and Serapion promised to reserve the sanctuary for the wedding of the fugitives for a short time after the departure of the procession, which was to take place at sunset. [10]
- I love Pentaur, and next to thee there is no one like him in the sanctuary. [10]
- Panting for breath and clenching his hands, he summoned up his courage as if he were about to steal unbidden into the most sacred sanctuary of a temple. [10]
- He spent half an hour in reaching the sanctuary. [10]
- The most aristocratic among the gentlemen had gathered on the western side of the great sanctuary, between the cella and the long row of Doric columns which supported the roof of the marble temple. [10]
- Love forever, live always in this sanctuary she had made for me? [9]
- Meanwhile Gula had also turned her face toward Hermon, and he now addressed her, saying with a faint tone of reproach: "And did hatred lead you also, Gula, to this sanctuary at midnight to implore the goddess to destroy me in her wrath? [10]
- They have almost all died unawares, sitting in the sanctuary they had guarded and which is now no more. [2]
- Olympius himself for a moment despaired; for his ecstatic adherents had during the night turned to poltroons and tipplers, and the sacred precincts of the sanctuary looked as if a battle had been fought and lost there. [10]
- The gate-keeper, swinging a censer before him with a hasty action, admitted him into the sanctuary. [10]
- They showed us a broken granite pillar, depending from the roof, which they said was hacked in two by the Moslem conquerors of Nazareth, in the vain hope of pulling down the sanctuary. [5]
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