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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Holy

As holy, as the symbol that we lay on the still bosom of our white-robed dead.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Holy as heaven a mother’s tender love.
—Mrs.
—Norton

Holy as the watch of an invisible spirit.
—Edgar Allan Poe

Holy as bowers where angels have flown.
—A. J. Ryan

Holy as a choir of nuns.
—Ralph D. Williams

Holy as a spire rear’d o’er the house of God.
—John Wilson

Holy as one from an angel clime.
—William Winter