forbidden ground
Example Sentences
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Unfortunately, Trespasser Fergusson has been so conscious of the professional sanctity of the forbidden ground that he has removed his everyday shoes and trips it awkwardly in borrowed slippers.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Poland, forbidden ground to foreign journalists since September 1939, the first year of Nazi stewardship resulted in two balance sheets.
From Time Magazine Archive
He did not answer, and I was aware again of that feeling of discomfort, as though I had trespassed on forbidden ground.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Poor woman, she was on forbidden ground, and before her loomed the spectre of the wrathful Pasotti.
From The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico by Fogazzaro, Antonio
Then it occurred to her that perhaps she was broadly trenching on forbidden ground and revealing that which her husband had bidden her keep inviolate.
From Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. by King, Charles
