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Example sentences for "sanctities"

Lexicographically close words:
sanctioned; sanctioning; sanctions; sanctissimi; sanctitate; sanctity; sanctorum; sanctos; sancts; sanctuarie
  1. Jetsam, a "Titanic" elegy by Herman Montagu Donner, carries the dread and dangerous subject without violating its terrors and sanctities with false sentiment or light rhythm.

  2. New York, typified in the pathetic little love-affair of two young starvelings, which takes its course through a stirring, exacting milieu to a renunciation that leaves the essential sanctities intact.

  3. We are in danger of being drawn away from the sanctities of the inner life and the still work of the soul, by this maelstrom of excitement and power.

  4. And for this culture there are rich opportunities amidst the relations and sanctities of Home.

  5. He afterwards spoke only to His followers in the sweet seclusion of the sympathetic home at Bethany, and amid the sanctities of the upper chamber.

  6. Hour by hour, day by day, action by action, you are devastating and profaning the sanctities of your nature, and the sacred places there where God ought to live.

  7. But then he rarely had Grand Dudgeon except in the sanctities of family life, and hardly ever when any other man was about.

  8. The world is gross, its touch unsanctifies the sanctities of art; yet the brave audacity of genius is able to penetrate this gross world with spiritual fire.

  9. He who would violate the sanctities of his mother tongue would invade the recesses of the paternal till without remorse, and repeat the banquet of Saturn without an indigestion.

  10. Fordyce Hurlbut, are you not in danger of violating the sanctities of your honorable calling, and leading astray a young person committed to your sacred keeping?

  11. Even the years in which he had grown gradually away from her had appeared to her to leave untouched the deeper sanctities of their marriage.

  12. This dignity, which was not that of triumph, but of a defeat which surrenders everything except the inviolable sanctities of the spirit, shielded her like an impenetrable armour against both resentment and pity.

  13. Never in my life did I hear such absurd--such outrageous--charges against the sanctities of the home!

  14. Had he really any right to intrude upon such sanctities as hers would be to-day?

  15. Monica was like a Roman Catholic in the matter-of-fact way in which she alluded to something that for Pauline pierced such sanctities as could scarcely even be mentioned by herself to her own soul.

  16. Certainly it did not occur to Lilámani that any trouble in Europe could invade the sanctities of her home, or affect the shining destiny of Roy.

  17. Gazing on that scene day by day, Holbein went his own way, with the earnestness and silent swell of the strong river--not unconscious of the awe, nor of the sanctities of his life.

  18. I used to think that the inhabitants would have ample time to murder one another, or any stranger, like myself, who might violate the filthy sanctities of the place; before the law could bring up its lumbering assistance.

  19. One large body of worshippers might have knelt down in the nave, others in each of the transepts, and smaller ones in the side-aisles, besides an indefinite number of esoteric enthusiasts in the mysterious sanctities beyond the screen.

  20. To assemble a similar audience in an amphitheatre, where the sanctities of worship are not present to calm and solemnize the mind, is evidently not to improve the tribunal.

  21. Our first natural impression is, that it requires no interpretation, but speaks for itself; that it has no mystery, except that which belongs to the triumphs of deep guilt, and the sanctities of disinterested love.

  22. There was a good attendance; and he addressed the children on the sanctities of the Sabbath and the penalties of a life of crime.

  23. The sanctities and sanctified above Shall each to each, with lifted looks serene, Their shining faces lean, And mix the adoring breath And breathe the full thanksgiving.

  24. God made your acts Inherent in your lives, and bound your hands With instincts and imperious sanctities From self-defacement.

  25. The pathos of the decaying sanctities of Bolton, after wrong and outrage, abandoned to the healing of nature and time.

  26. He had attacked the sanctities of the home.

  27. Nay, has it not a prior right over against Levitical institutions or prophetic ordinances, seeing that it may be traced back to the sweet sanctities of Eden?

  28. To such war as this all men are born; in such war as this any man may happily die; and forth from such war as this have arisen throughout the extent of past ages, all the highest sanctities and virtues of humanity.


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