You are the only person living that I can call by the sacred name of friend.Cited from Round the Block, by John Bell Bouton
It is vain to expect mercy to be shown under such circumstances.All is done in the sacred name of the law.The sheriff, the representative of the majesty of the law, is the actual exterminator.…Cited from History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. III, by E. Farr & E. H. Nolan
The sacred name of his love had sprung from his heart and his lips.Cited from The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux
These Sacred Name Bibles were all done with the specific aim of carrying into English the actual Name of God as they were in the originals.Most have been done by people from the Sacred Name Movement.…
And, by that sacred name and dear, I bid thy better self appear.Still, through thy foul disguise, I see The rudimental purity, That, spite of change and loss, makes good Thy birthright-claim of womanhood; An inward loathing, deep, intense; A shame that is half innocence.…Cited from The Complete Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
The name of Joseph is invoked with singular devotion by all the true faithful.They frequently join it with the sacred names of Jesus and Mary.Whilst Jesus and Mary lived at Nazareth, if we had wished to obtain some favour from them, could we have employed a more powerful protector than St. Joseph?…Cited from Primitive Christian Worship, by James Endell Tyler
Those that we now have were added not far from the time of Christ.No one knows the original pronunciation of that sacred name consisting of four letters.At a very early day it had become too sacred to pronounce, so that when men came to it in reading or in speech, they simply used another word which is, translated into English, Lord, a word of high dignity.…Cited from Study of the King James Bible, Cleland Boyd McAfee
And yet not once in all those eight pages had he called her by the sacred name of "wife."There were all manner of pet names and expressions of endearment, but not a single time was written that word which would have proved so much.…Cited from Virgie's Inheritance, by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
I have no patience when I see girls with perfectly prosperous lives inventing tragedies for themselves.They have no right "to take in vain the sacred name of grief."…Cited from Stray Thoughts for Girls, by Lucy H. M. Soulsby
People of the same race and language then fought each other because they differed about religion.To-day, even holding the same religious views, they fight in the sacred name of nationality.But then, as now, there were a few people who recognized the folly of the fashionable differences.…Cited from Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle, by Mary Edith Durham
The word friendship has been abased by applying it to low and unworthy uses, and so there is plenty of copy still to be got from life by the cynic and the satirist.The sacred name of friend has been bandied about till it runs the risk of losing its true meaning.…Cited from Friendship, by Hugh Black
Sacred name of a dog; keep the door shut!Cited from The Soul of the War, by Philip Gibbs, Intro. by Anthony Langley
The whole nation of old was honoured with these sacred names.Cited from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Acts, by Maclaren
He imagined himself to be the victim of some fearful and incomprehensible conspiracy.Why, in the sacred name of common-sense, should he have been imprisoned in the state suite?The only answer to the conundrum was that nobody was aware of his quite unauthorised presence in the state suite.…Cited from The Card, A Story Of Adventure In The Five Towns, by Arnold Bennett
Before proceeding to business he had a duty to perform in the sacred name of friendship.It ill became him to pass a eulogy upon the qualities of the speaker who had preceded him, for he had known him from "boyhood's hour."…Cited from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales,Harte
Sacred name of a dog, was I not myself a soldier of Napoleon?Did I not win a musket of honour among the Velites of the Guard?…Cited from The Adventures of Gerard, by Arthur Conan Doyle/14
For example, when it was forbidden in Myanmar to speak the name of political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi, she was commonly referred to as "The Lady".Various names of God in Judaism are used to avoid writing or speaking sacred names.The name of the fictional Lord Voldemort in the popular Harry Potter universe is taboo, and he is commonly referred with epithets such as "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" and "You-Know-Who".…
If so, let that hand, blood-dipped, be lifted now.Which one of my readers will ever again utter his sacred name in imprecation?…Cited from The Abominations of Modern Society, by Rev. T. De Witt Talmage
By a sacred name she adjured him to tell who he was, and in a moment the figure was gone.It was the Fiend, of course -- diminished sadly since Milton saw him bridge chaos -- fallen from worlds to kitchen-wenches.…Cited from Dreamthorp, by Alexander Smith
Among the poor inhabitants of the district, the father and daughter are worshiped as semi-divine beings.Their names come after the Sacred Name in the prayers which the parents teach to their children.Such is the household (so far as the guide's story goes) on whose privacy we have intruded ourselves!…Cited from The Two Destinies, by Wilkie Collins