He could not stand by and see her piteous face, her slender figure, her forlorn gestures, while they carried her off-the poor little weak thing sent away from hearth and home, cast out among strangers because any spot on the earth, however bare or hard, had become a better shelter for her than the place that should have been sacredly secure.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
All that day the work of his skill was sacredly guarded, and the custodian of the treasure went about with her head on her shoulders, as if it had been temporarily placed in her keeping, and were something she was not at all used to taking care of.
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
I think they brought him papers-very important-to be sacredly guarded until a right time should come to reveal them."
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine