holy being
Example Sentences
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This, then, cannot be applied to a holy being.
From Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill
He felt her holy being stealing through His own, like fountains of the azure dew, That summer mingles with his golden light; And he would clasp her, till the weary night Was worn away.
From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Lang, Andrew
When the gods have bestowed such friendship upon a man, he can do nothing more than protect it carefully against everything external, and guard its holy being.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
The virtuous choose, are virtuous by choice; the holy, being one, deliberate not—their volitions answering spontaneously to their desires.
From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson
Yet the Pope is still a holy being.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by Symonds, John Addington
