I ask all of you, by whatever you hold sacred, not to start a second wave of ridiculous rumours.

"Will you swear to me by whatever you hold sacred that, this time, you are telling me the truth?"

He is short and stern in his speech, and holds nothing sacred or even important.

The cabinet of M. de Treville, generally held so sacred, became in an instant the annex of the antechamber.

On one level, the debate is over what modern America holds more sacred: Commuter drive times or Indian religious practices?

Skeeter Jackson was fighting for the very survival of his adopted clan, for everything he held sacred and decent in the world.

"There is nothing that I hold more sacred."

And I will also swear by anything you hold sacred, for I understand that our gods may not be yours and therefore mean nothing to you yet.

But although Roosevelt felt the sway of the true emotions, he allowed only his intimates to know what he held most intimate and sacred.

"They are beliefs to be held sacred and always respected."