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The picture rises to his wearied brain like a sanctus from the choir of a cathedral, and in the twinkling of an eye, stung to madness by the cravings of his heart, the man is overboard.— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
The grand sanctus which arises from human sensibility, Perish empires and the crowns of kings, etc., first arose in connection with Christianity.— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
The exact meaning of sanctus is extremely difficult to fix, and this may be why it was found to be a convenient word for a type of character negative rather than positive.— The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
Mithra is sanctus (_Mon.— The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
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