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Holy place   /hˈoʊli pleɪs/   Listen
Holy place

noun
1.
A sacred place of pilgrimage.  Synonyms: holy, sanctum.






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"Holy place" Quotes from Famous Books



... when with bold step we press our way into the holy place where genius hath wrought, we find it to be a place of sorrows. Art has its Gethsemane and its Calvary as well as religion. Our best loved books and sweetest songs are those ...
— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe

... and fall Baghdad is still a holy place to all faithful Mohammedans. It is the Mecca of the Shiah Mussulmans. Kerbela and Nejef are the great places of burial for the faithful, and among the common sights of the plains of Mesopotamia are endless ...
— A Dweller in Mesopotamia - Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden • Donald Maxwell

... and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help ...
— All Aboard - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry

... thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. ...
— Town and Country Sermons • Charles Kingsley

... never. Come, away, away! We'll burn his body in the holy place, And with the brands fire the traitors' houses. Take up ...
— The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Caesar • William Shakespeare


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