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Examples
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Her confidence has been the sacredest thing in my life and I have tried to do as she desired.
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The very sense of inevitable error from their purpose marks the perfectness of that purpose, and the continued sense of failure arises from the continued opening of the eyes more clearly to all the sacredest laws of truth.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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And the sacredest memory, at last, of life, lies not in the handclasp of a coming joy, but in the footfall of a vanishing sorrow.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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He had come to the point where he could hear his sacredest expressions denounced as rot and supplanted by others that made him mentally ill.
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And I plead by the sacredest things of their lives --
Beechenbrook A Rhyme of the War Margaret J. Preston
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Mingled with the many, dear, familiar things of the life that no longer was to be his, was a slim, pretty, little girl whom he had enshrined in his college days, and before whom he had laid his heart's sacredest offerings since.
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In the dread light of its unholy fires, we see, as never before, how cursed and doubly accursed a thing is slavery -- making men forget all that is holiest and sacredest, quenching all their inspirations of patriotism, and leading them to sell body and soul for mad ambition.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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He perhaps supposed that the common sense of the people would sooner or later discover and right the wrong that was done to him by those who, without the slightest justification, invaded the sacredest privacies of his life for subjects of public observation.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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You have been joined together in the holiest and sacredest matrimony.
My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People Caradoc Evans
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Right, bought with the sacredest blood, -- is denied!
Beechenbrook A Rhyme of the War Margaret J. Preston
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