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