making holy

Example Sentences

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Blessed Sunday peace and quiet, harmonising with the calmness in their souls, and making holy air around them!

From Dombey and Son by Dickens, Charles

When God sanctified the seventh day as His period of making holy, He taught us that He could not do it at once.

From Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy by Murray, Andrew

“Where, then, didst learn all this, making holy things common?”

From Grisly Grisell by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

—Edgar Poe. golden censer swings in the Temple of Life, making holy its halls and grateful its corridors.

From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by McGovern, John

It means making holy, sanctifying; and holiness was to primitive man just special strength and life.

From Ancient Art and Ritual by Harrison, Jane Ellen