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sanctum sanctorum

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sanctum sanctorum
1. The innermost or holiest place of a tabernacle or temple, the “holy of holies.”
2. Any especially private place or retreat which may not be entered except by special permission.
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That is the time, after your Departure is taken, when the spirit of your commander communes with you in a muffled voice, as if from the sanctum sanctorum of a temple; because, call her a temple or a "hell afloat" - as some ships have been called - the captain's state-room is surely the august place in every vessel.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
Now, had Tashtego perished in that head, it had been a very precious perishing; smothered in the very whitest and daintiest of fragrant spermaceti; coffined, hearsed, and tombed in the secret inner chamber and sanctum sanctorum of the whale.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Reuter turned her eye laterally on me, to ascertain, probably, whether I was collected enough to be ushered into her sanctum sanctorum.
The Professor by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
 
 
 
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