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Sanctuary

noun

(pl. sanctuaries)

A consecrated place where sacred objects are kept.

A shelter from danger or hardship. Synonyms: asylum, refuge.

Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing. Synonyms: bema, chancel.

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... was just sinking. The Zulus had broken almost completely through the thickest portion of the ring formed by their foes. Only a few yards before them was the dense river-forest, offering sanctuary. But escape ...

— Kafir Stories - Seven Short Stories • William Charles Scully

... can be so frightened by the risks of expressing love that we may turn away from those who need our love and have a right to expect it from us. How much easier and safer it is to know about God and His love, and to confine this meaning to the sanctuary and the study group! Intellectualism, then, is another way in which we try ...

— Herein is Love • Reuel L. Howe

... shall ever outpour; In thy name though she glory, she glories yet more In thy thrice-hallowed corse, which the sanctuary claims Of high Compostella, O, ...

— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow

... spread O'er seas unknown Ellide's willing sail, She'll kindly bear us to a friendlier strand Where exiled love may safe asylum find. What is the North to me? And what a race, Which pales at every word of priest or king, Whose shameless hands would pluck the living rose From out the sanctuary of my heart? So, Freyja help, it shall not prosper them! The wretched slave is bound unto the turf Where he was born, hut I will still be free, Free as the mountain winds. A little earth From Bele's grave and from my father's taken, Can ...

— Fridthjof's Saga • Esaias Tegner

... nor do I violate this sanctuary of sorrow"—here he sank his voice below his usual low tones—"when I speak of the passion that maddened my youth and withered my manhood—a passion whose intensity was its excuse for all extravagances and whose enduring constancy is its ...

— Hidden Hand • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

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