holy being

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Had I been in a Catholic church I had imagined her to have been some holy being, incarnated by her deep sympathy with the worshippers.

From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by Cooke, George Willis

Where the word “Mother” appears in the following song it refers to “Mother Earth,” a living, conscious, holy being in Indian thought.

From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by Helleberg, C. G. (Carl Gustaf)

He felt her holy being stealing through His own, like fountains of the azure dew, That summer mingles with his golden light; And he would clasp her, till the weary night Was worn away.

From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Lang, Andrew

I did not speak to her, for she was to me a holy being, not to be addressed lightly.

From Cord and Creese by De Mille, James

This, then, cannot be applied to a holy being.

From Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill