We move on and at length ascend an eminence, and gaze on the "Holy City," Jerusalem.
The standards of Saladin were soon seen floating over the heights of Emaüs, and the Mussulman army encamped on the same places on which Godfrey, Tancred, and the two Roberts had pitched their tents when they besieged the holy city.
On his arrival on the banks of the Jordan, Judea had not yet fallen into the hands of the infidels; but the fame of their victories already filled the East, and their armies were threatening the holy city.
On the day Saladin entered into the holy city, says Rigord, the monks of Argenteuil saw the moon descend from heaven upon the earth, and then reascend to heaven.
The man can get no higher than his knees, till an arm from Heaven help him up-(Bunyan's Holy City).
He sent His Word, and healed them-(Bunyan's Holy City).
Partly for this reason and partly because the success of his preaching meant the withdrawal of rich revenues derived from the pilgrims who came to the "holy city" of Mecca, its people began to persecute him.
Although he compelled the inhabitants to give up their idols he compromised so far as to retain the Kaaba and the Festival of Mecca and to reinstate Mecca as a holy city.
They had a Holy City, later known as Mecca, near the Red Sea border, in the centre of which was a black stone preserved in a Temple called the Kaaba.
However that may be, long before the beginning of the Christian era it had been supplanted by Mabog or Membij, and the great sanctuary which had made it a 'holy city' was transferred to its rival and successor.
Like Carchemish, Kadesh on the Orontes, the most southern capital the Hittites possessed, was also a 'holy city.
Messire Renaud de Montluc, who was setting out for the Holy City, undertook to see the letter safe.
Holy City, and on the Day of Saint Edmund the King,[#] he will be crowned in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
If he do this, he will cut off Acre from the Holy City, and the young Lord King cannot reach his capital.
Then again Jerusalem will become the Holy City, for from that day the name of the city shall be 'The Lord is there,' Ezek.
So soon as the Lord, who deserted Jerusalem, returns to her, she must become once more the Holy City.
And therefore it was that the holy angels cried aloud to one another, Let us depart, for it is a holy city no longer, God has deserted it; it is His no more.
With some mortification and a little petulance the young man said: “I understood, sir, that you had never visited the Holy City.
And yet “it is good to be here”—it is still a holy city.
These verses, being a continuance of the description of the "holy city," naturally belong to the preceding chapter.
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
For several days our little party plodded along the flat, dusty road, camping out at night at the paraos, until at last they drew near the "Holy City of Benares.
At the bottom of the picture was painted in large, ornate letters: "This is God's Holy City Jerusalem.
Were they not being called to a life of supernal glory in God's Holy City?
You shall go to my Holy City, Jerusalem,' it said.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "holy city" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
