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Meanings of sacred relics in English

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Usage of sacred relics in English
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This fire consumed many of the most sacred relics in the church.
A Trip Abroad / An Account of a Journey to the Earthly Canaan an...
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The crowd contended for the falling drops as if for sacred relics.
The Works of Frederick Schiller
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Maria Mondmilch preserved her uncle's letters as though they were sacred relics.
The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein
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The infidels have been digging here for many years, looking for sacred relics.
A river in the sky
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You cannot strike at this world without destroying countless sacred relics.
Broken Circle
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But these skins are presented here too like sacred relics in glass vitrines.
The Guardian
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This city, under nominally Christian emperors, had become a museum of sacred relics.
Peter the Hermit: A Tale of Enthusiasm
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It is one of the holiest, and the most powerful, of all sacred relics.
Neverwhere
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The courtiers took them up carefully and preserved them as sacred relics in the Palace.
Japanese Fairy Tales
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Those who defiled, damaged, lost, or misappropriated said sacred relics deserved to be stiffly punished.
Secret Sanction
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The Turks have their sacred relics, like the Catholics.
The Innocents Abroad
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The fate of these sacred relics is rather interesting.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 11: Titus
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The Pope bestowed rich gifts on Sofonisba, among which were sacred relics, set with gems.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twe...
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But what are these compared with the sacred relics?
The Cloister and the Hearth
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Pauline found her new home filled with all the luxuries and sacred relics of the tribe.
The Perils of Pauline
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Among it, sacred relics from the 1905 tour.
The Guardian
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Sacred relics through the time
Sacred relics across language varieties
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