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Definition of sanctuary:

  • (noun) a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept
  • (noun) a shelter from danger or hardship
  • (noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing

Sentence Examples:

Gathering together the inhabitants of the houses, which had gradually clustered round his idolatrous sanctuary, he pursued after the roving warriors.

William the Second probably swells with magnitude at the thought of destroying with his big guns this sanctuary of French kings.

In the making of game preserves, or "sanctuaries" as they are called out there, the Government of India has shown rare and commendable diligence.

Grasping the banister with one hand, I went downstairs backwards, step by step, and so regained the sanctuary of my own room.

They had come in rags, half-starved, out of the blizzards to the unexpected sanctuary of a town that still retained a vestige of civilization.

I feel some such malign influence invading the peaceful sanctuary of my soul, disturbing its even outlook on things, driving out my serene calm.

Out of their economy they clothed and fed numbers of citizens, and promoted the dignity of the sanctuary, and of their country.

He must therefore purify himself and entrust his recovery to one of the innumerable saints whose sanctuaries are scattered throughout this region.

The pretension on its part to do so is tyrannical, because interference here is trespassing on the sanctuary, where the truth alone bears rule.

There is little need for the goat to leave its steep sanctuaries; it can subsist on lichens and mosses if browse is not available.

Then the pilgrims went into the shadow of a great rock behind the sanctuary, spread themselves out over the grass and dined.

The light of a solitary lamp still struggles in the sanctuary with the daylight; but they are already prostrate before the altar.

With a very noble retinue he brought her to his sister at Wilton, where, with that most noble countess, she abides in sanctuary.

The whole place seemed pitched to that subdued note, as if it were a sanctuary from the clash and clamor without its walls.

In the same year there were but six Protestant pastors and five Churches; but in 1857 there were thirty-nine pastors and fifty-one sanctuaries.

At last, not knowing what to shun, or where to seek sanctuary, they crowded the streets, and lay along in the open fields.

The tombs are ornate and monumental buildings, or sanctuaries, of the same general character as the domed mosques, and often attached to them.

O'Sullivan attests that "his labors were incredible in preaching against heresy, administering the sacraments, and ordaining youthful Levites for the sanctuary".

Conscious of his own innocence, he did not endeavor to hide himself when the door of the workhouse, his sanctuary, was breaking open.

There was so much of the sacred solemnity of the sanctuary about him that vanity or folly could not live in his presence.

A cloud falls upon the sanctuary, but when it is dispelled, one perceives a lifted dome, bright with its new cloth of gold.

She therefore refrained from asking another question, but heaved a sigh as she quitted her seat to gain the sanctuary of her closet.

What a heavy smell of leather they have already introduced into these closed sanctuaries, accustomed only to the odor of sandalwood and incense!

At last, not knowing what to shun, or where to seek sanctuary, they crowded the streets, and lay along in the open fields.

His devoted heart flowed out in that one matchless lily that has filled so many hearts and sanctuaries with its rich fragrance.

Built like all French towns, without arcades or sheltering archways, the flat facades of the closed and barricaded houses refused them sanctuary.

Sanctuaries were erected at these springs by grateful worshipers, and at some of them festivals were held, or they were the resort of pilgrims.

Each hall diminished in size, but increased in sacredness, until the inmost sanctuary was reached; small, dark, and awful in its obscurity.

Her sanctuaries would be purified, her rites reformed, her withered veins would swell again with vital sap; but it is not so.

This monarch made sumptuous presents to the temple, and even ventured to enter the sanctuary, but was prevented by the high priest.

The priestess of Diana in a barbarous land, she had passed the years in the duties of the sanctuary, and in acts of beneficence.

Vincent, too much alarmed and astonished to offer any resistance, followed the man who had thus entered into her sanctuary of anguish.

You have heard a great deal about men delighting to worship in the forest glades, who disdain to frequent the sanctuary of the saints.

When the latter superseded the earlier heroes, they took over these games together with the sanctuaries and festivals of the older religion.

I had often given him sanctuary before in his hour of need, and he settled down with the easy smoothness of an old campaigner.

And meeting that fellow in the very sanctuary of New York fashion, and nestling in the bosom of the New York aristocracy!

"One would think to hear you talk, that you'd expected this poor little sanctuary to be stuffed with murderers, or at the least, kidnappers."

Even in his prose he does not lay aside his robes; it is written in the tones of the sanctuary: it is prose for worshipers.

He would seek refuge anywhere, even in the very sanctuary of his accusers, rather than abide a trial with him in a court of justice.

It must be, like the book, a limited, personal, mellow, and companionable glow; the solitary taper beside the only worshiper in a sanctuary.

He stretched himself and shook his head, and waved his hand contemptuously toward the Temple mount and the sanctuary crowning it.

It must be, like the book, a limited, personal, mellow, and companionable glow; the solitary taper beside the only worshiper in a sanctuary.

Perhaps they had taken sanctuary there; or possibly they were on a visit, and were cut off by the suddenness of the rising.

Her wounded affections withdrew into the still sanctuary of her own mind, whilst in patient meekness she performed her duties as a wife.

Early in the morning all the male members of a family assemble at the sanctuary of the particular ancestral ghosts whom they revere.

The High Altar, with its canopy, and the florid pulpits and marble screen round the sanctuary, are the only conspicuous objects.

One thing at all events we can say, that we should rejoice to boast as capacious, symmetrical and well-ordered a head as the upper sanctuary.

It seemed the last vestiges of solace and sanctuary were crumbling around her, leaving a world too terrible, too full of dark meaning to endure.

It rose higher and higher in lurching spirals, and having gained the necessary elevation, swooped superbly for the sanctuary of the tree-lined beach.

A sanctuary, spacious and lofty, and airy withal, was comfortably filled with men, women, and children, for the most part decently dressed.

The superficiality and glitter that are the bane of modern methods of education in our country have not spared sanctuary ordinances and family religion.

The Spaniards could not effectually return their fire, for the Aztecs were sheltered by the sanctuaries on the summit of the pyramids.

The gypsy replied only with dark looks, regarding his intrusion in this inner sanctuary as a fresh provocation for her just displeasure.

He enjoyed sanctuary in jail for two months and then, threatened with an embarrassing and abrupt release, he concentrated on a hurried mental incubation.

Unfortunately, the room into which my eyes penetrate is not the sanctuary but a mere outhouse where the learned implements and crockery are washed.

The temple rises in the center of the upper tier, conspicuous for the fluted spires which form the roofs of the sanctuaries.

Arm yourselves at dawn, and we will fight with those nations who have defiled our sanctuary and have now come out to destroy us.

The annals of this Sanctuary were never, unfortunately, kept; it is impossible to ascertain what illustrious criminals were here housed and for how long.

He tip-toed up to it, stood for a moment on the sill, then entered softly and with the expression of one approaching a sanctuary.

In the sanctuary, if such it could be called, was a small white throne of marble, with heavy, white curtains draped at either side.

May this immense temple of freedom ever stand a lesson to oppressors, an example to the oppressed, a sanctuary for the rights of mankind!

He skirmished up the aisle after it again, red in the face, and uttering sentences which were very much out of place in the sanctuary.

On this occasion, the environs of the temple is considered a sanctuary, where no person may be arrested or troubled on any cause or pretence.

The sanctuary with the buildings attached to it has perished, but enormous brick structures extend round the ruins, forming an enclosure of storehouses.

Here you can see humanity in its primitive state, before it began to adorn the fringes of life, and make for itself sanctuaries of privacy.

The sanctuary of his abode should not be violated, and the troops should not enter his house but by trampling on his corpse.

The priests in alarm had closed the gates of the sanctuary, drawn the bolts, raised barricades, and prepared everything for maintaining a siege.

Kate was making for the sanctuary of her kitchen, her face aflame and all her streamers flying, but was caught before she entered.

Some temples have but a single chamber while others have two or more chambers, the central or innermost one being specially developed into a sanctuary.

The annals of wild life protection literature contain many records and illustrations of the remarkable quickness and thoroughness of sanctuary recognition by birds.

When felons took refuge in sanctuary, it was the coroner who arranged for their leaving the country on forfeiting all that they had.

With the accession of Elizabeth, the accommodating Earl again resumed his Protestant faith, and a second time drove the nuns from their sanctuary.

The precinct of this house had, before the Reformation, been a sanctuary for criminals, and still retained the privilege of protecting debtors from arrest.

This irregularity seems to have been chiefly owing to the necessity of preserving the different sanctuaries and religious objects belonging to the ancient temple.

He had recommended her to read certain books, and reminded her that no possessor of good books could lack the privilege of spiritual sanctuary.

The official duties of the sanctuary were performed by men, but there were "serving women" who performed certain menial tasks about the sacred enclosure.

Rising hurriedly after the obeisance, he inclined himself again before her and swept away, as she had commanded, leaving her alone in her sanctuary.

Each third year a special tithe was to be used in feasting, not necessarily at the sanctuary, and again the Levites were to have their share.

I am distinctly a mover in the great tide of Action sweeping on around me; yet when I enter into the sanctuary of the Muses, lo!

The inhabitants were butchered without distinction of age, sex, or condition, and even those who fled to the churches were slain within the sanctuary.

The cornices crowning the sanctuary walls were also of gold, and a frieze of gold, hammered into the stone, ran right round the hall.

Rome in her decline offers an asylum to the fallen powers; her ruins are a place of sanctuary for persecuted glory and unfortunate talents.

Heathens and barbarians had heretofore respected this venerable sanctuary; but, upon the present occasion, it was incapable of giving safety to its aged refugee.

An odor of lavender pervaded the atmosphere, and the four-post bed, with its pink-and-white hangings, looked like a shrine where love might claim sanctuary.

Even by the plague the atmosphere is tainted to a very inconsiderable distance; and mankind find an asylum and sanctuary within a few yards.

The inhabitants asserted an inheritance of the privileges of sanctuary, formerly pertaining to that famous monastery which had given its name to the neighborhood.

Turning his steed up a narrow path of the forest, he sought this sanctuary, in hopes of finding a hospitable shelter for the night.

It is also possible that he aided the vassal peoples in rebuilding their sanctuaries; for such action was in perfect accord with his wise policy.

"When I drew out my knife to get the thief from the candle he screamed to wake the dead and took sanctuary in the oratory."

There is great danger that the attraction of persons, characters and dress, may dissipate every serious thought with which you entered the sanctuary.

A certain feeling of reverence not unmixed with curiosity took possession of her, as when one enters a sanctuary in the absence of the priest.

For the outdoor enthusiast, the Forest offers superb beauty, graceful and majestic snow-covered peaks, and the peace and serenity of a forest sanctuary.

The epitaph is well-known which Plato composed for him, after his death: "The Graces, seeking an imperishable sanctuary, found the soul of Aristophanes."

It is best to leave the sanctuary of all hearts inviolate, and to respect the reserve not only of the living but of the dead.

The difficulty lies in (a) gaining the confidence of those to whom the sanctuaries are holy, and (b) guarding against willful or unconscious deception.

In the impenetrable sanctuary of her soul, she wished to reserve for herself alone her impressions of pain and sorrow, her antipathies and affections.

The ceremony of the reception of the knights once finished, the King quitted his throne in the sanctuary, after having made the required obeisances.

A brazen portal richly carved led to the sanctuary; two rows of lofty columns supported the arching roof, like a great shield of gold.

It lies in a shallow trough formed by two low ridges descending into the plain from the hills which encircle the sanctuary of Asclepius.

They burrowed into rubbish piles only to be dragged out by the hair or the heels and to see their jealous companions seize upon these sanctuaries.