Hallowed

Suddenly the silence was broken, and they heard below them cries and the ringing of swords: such sounds as had not been heard in the hallowed places since the building of the City.

Yet here they sat, drinking to a marriage hallowed by some queer red god from beyond the seas.

Whose congregated majesty so fills My boundly reverence, that I cannot trace Your hallowed names, in this unholy place, So near those common folk; did not their shames Affright you?

“Here he is!” The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shows in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven, and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.

Now it is tried, tested, hallowed, -everything a Jorane Sutt would find well.

With us there is great justice, because that war is just which is necessary, and arms are hallowed when there is no other hope but in them.

This time (it had been Margaret Eisenhart’s idea), three sets of twins had gone together with the hallowed feather, carrying it from town to smallhold to ranch to farm in a bucka driven by Cantab, who sat unusually silent and songless up front, clucking along a matched set of brown mules that needed precious little help from the likes of him.

Standing, for the most part, on the hallowed precincts of the quarterdeck, they were careful not to speak or rustle their feet.

-The Oxford English Dictionary The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory.

Yet here they sat, drinking to a marriage hallowed by some queer red god from beyond the seas.

Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Zion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit; nor sometimes forget Those other two equalled with me in fate, So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old: Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note.

Never before had a reference of his to Shakespeare’s hallowed Hamlet been ignored and trampled upon with such rude indifference.