"Ours wasn't," I answered, with some warmth. "It was my sanctum sanctorum in the holidays. I smoked my first pipe up there, and wrote my first verses."英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
In his sanctum old Heythorp had moved to his writing-table, and was evidently anxious to sit down.英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
Raised to his feet, he walked slowly out; but in his sanctum he did not sit down, obsessed by this first overwhelming realisation of his helplessness. He stood swaying a little, holding on to the table, till the servant, having finished serving dinner, brought in his port.英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
In his sanctum he sank at once into his chair. It was wonderfully still there every day at this hour; just the click of the coals, just the faintest ruffle from the wind in the trees of the park. And it was cosily warm, only the fire lightening the darkness. A drowsy beatitude pervaded the old man. A good day's work! A triumph--that young pup had said. Something of a triumph! He had held on, and won.英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
Behind the dining-room was a comfortable little chamber set apart as John's sanctum; here he smoked and entertained his male friends, and contemplated the portraits of those female ones who would not have been altogether at their ease in Mrs Yule's drawing-room. Not long after dinner his mother and sister came to talk with him in this retreat.英文原著 · 《New Grub Street》
Try to conceive my own emotion, which I was bound to feel on that day of days when I crossed through this marvellous garden , and that was capped when I was ushered into the hero's sanctum.英文原著 · 《TARTARIN OF TARASCON》