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Meanings of holy relics in English

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Usage of holy relics in English
1
She had heard of holy relics in connection with some Catholic cults.
Blameless
2
Paul thought that the man would probably seal the sheets as holy relics.
Paul of dune
3
Do you know how many holy relics were floating around Christendom in those days?
The Descent
4
Much less to set them to searching for holy relics.
Provenance
5
Fasts were ordered and every day holy relics were set out on the altars.
Mogens, and Other Stories
6
They may have old legends, old tools, old holy relics.
Ringworld
7
To-day the holy relics will be borne through the streets and crossways of the city.
The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche
8
Here the king deposited the piece of the holy cross, and many other holy relics.
Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
9
Whatever clothing remains here should become as holy relics.
Angel time: the songs of the seraphim
10
He was a Crusader at the Siege of Jerusalem, looking for holy relics to steal.
The Golem and the Jinni
11
It's a shame to allow women to rustle their dresses so near the holy relics.'
Abbe Mouret's Transgression
12
Why were the holy relics, the arms, ammunition, gunpowder, and stores of corn not removed?
War and Peace
13
Once a year all these holy relics are carried in procession through the streets of Milan.
The Innocents Abroad
14
He found the priest beside the sacred vessels, leaning with his hand upon the holy relics.
The Fall of the Nibelungs
15
There are holy relics in thy hilt, relics of St. Peter and St. Denis and St.
Heroes Every Child Should Know
16
He sometimes paints still lifes of knives, making them glow as if they were holy relics.
Dark rivers of the heart
This collocation consists of:
Holy relics through the time
Holy relics across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common