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Sentences starting with saint

Saint Simeon Stylites the Younger explained the wonders of the moon to her,--Tycho and the grooves radiating from it, Kepler and Copernicus with their craters and ridges, and all the most brilliant shows of this wonderful little world. [6]
Saint Jacob and the Madonna will aid us. [10]
Saint Margaret have pity! [5]
Saint Eloi is named after the good bishop who ventured to advise King Dagobert about his costume. [9]
Saint Martin is my patron saint; let all who value their souls refuse to attack the church and defend it with me. [10]
Saint Paul, times mentioned, 382. [6]
Saint Orion turns from you with horror! [10]
Saint and sinner both warm up to the doctor when the judgment Day heaves in view. [4]

Sentences ending with saint

For fourteen hundred years St. Mark has been her patron saint. [5]
He says the Virgin Mary appeared to this saint. [5]
If you looked very hard at Susan (which few people ever did), you saw that she had remarkable blue eyes: they were the eyes of a saint. [9]
And today, for the first time, he seemed to have seen the woman in her--or was it the saint? [4]
She felt a sudden loathing of the man whom she had idealized as a saint. [6]
She had a rose on her breast, her golden fillet looked like the crown of the Queen of Heaven, and in her robe of rich, stiff brocade she was like some great Saint. [10]
Her little tongue ran fast enough, and her large blue eyes sparkled with an unusually bright and happy lustre as she completed and corrected what the young knight told her about the saint. [10]
Welee----A holy man or saint. [11]
Yet she could not, as usual, seek consolation with her saint. [10]
The room was not ornamented, save by a crucifix, a pleasant pencil- drawing of Bishop Laval, a gun, a pair of snow-shoes, a sword, and a little shrine in one corner, wherein were relics of a saint. [11]

Short sentences using saint

She'll die a saint yet. [10]
Bory Saint Vincent, in 'Dict. [1]
A saint, Francois! [11]
By my saint! [10]

Sentences containing saint two or more times

It was the vigil of Saint Simon and Saint Jude's day--[October 28th]--in the year of our Lord 1420, and never shall I forget it. [10]
One of a pair of fleet bloodhounds which were ever leashed together was named Nich, and the other Syn, in memory that he had been betrothed on the festival of Saint Nicodemus and wedded on Saint Synesius' day. [10]
And well it might; for if the chain that bound a saint, and the footprints a saint has left upon a stone he chanced to stand upon, be holy, surely the spot where a man gave up his life for his faith is holy. [5]
Many shunned the labour which the saint enjoined upon his disciples, and the old jugs were often filled with new wine, which he, Benedictus, never tasted, and which the saint rejected as poison. [10]
In Italy almost every day is set apart for some festival, or belongs to some saint or another, and I suppose that when leap year brings around the extra day, there is a saint ready to claim the 29th of February. [4]
The fulfilment thereof began on Saint Lazarus' day, and on this day it falls first on thee; and thus the doom shall run its course till it hath an end on Saint John's eve, by reason that ye will then have nought left to lose! [10]

More example sentences with the word saint in them

Within a few years a distinguished Scotch clergyman made a fortune by diluting a paragraph written by Saint Paul. [4]
Ah, priest and worldly saint, how subtle and enduring are the primal instincts of human nature! [4]
You saw it with your own eyes, and you are an official of the Court, and have the ear of the Judge, and you look like a saint to a jury. [11]
Thus I fared with him to the great and mighty city of Saint Mark, which I had ever longed to behold with my bodily eyes. [10]
Early in April, while the wilderness was still in the grip of winter, Delphin had been summoned from a far-away lumber camp to Saint Hubert, where several packing-cases and two rolls of lead pipe from Montreal lay in a shed beside the railroad siding. [9]
Her name, "Julie," which she owed to her patron saint, Kuni supposed was the same as "Juliane. [10]
The last words which he addressed to her before leading her back to the others contained the promise to make her patron saint, St. Clare, his own. [10]
Not quite two weeks after Paula's trial, on the day of Saint Serapis the miraculous, saving, auspicious ceremonial was to take place. [10]
I don't know: we don't quite expect a saint to be rustic; but with all his goodness Conrad Dryfoos was a country person. [8]
Master Ulman Pernhart was married in a right sober fashion to fair Mistress Giovanna, and I remember to this day seeing them wed in Saint Laurence's Church. [10]
Here, he knew, was his greatest enemy where David was concerned, and yet this pretty Saint Elizabeth was wearing a fine turquoise ring with a poke bonnet, in a very worldly fashion. [11]
From Schweinau the walk had become difficult, especially as it was contrary to the teaching of the saint to use a staff. [10]
In this particular volume what interested me most, perhaps, was the very spirited and intelligent account of the miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of Saint Januarius, but it gave me an hour's mighty agreeable reading. [6]
We want the virile energy of determination which made the oath of Andrew Jackson sound so like the devotion of an ardent saint that the recording angel might have entered it unquestioned among the prayers of the faithful. [6]
Show her how unworthy of her is this brother of yours, though in your secret soul you shall know that my guardian saint never had, nor ever shall have, any other face than hers. [10]
The bond which united her to her saint and the Saviour still remained, but she knew what was commanded by him from whom St. Clare's mission also came, what Francis of Assisi had enjoined upon his followers whose experiences had been like hers. [10]
His home is truly in the heavens, and he practises an asceticism in the cause of science almost comparable to that of Saint Simeon Stylites. [6]
He had learned to love Heinz as the saint had formerly loved him, and he did not grudge him the happiness which, at the knight's age, had fallen to the lot of the man whose years now numbered eighty. [10]
They had come to him forthwith, albeit their choice would not be declared till Saint Walpurgis day, inasmuch as it was deemed well to have the matter settled before the close of the old year. [10]
But all the time, like a saint in a stained-glass window, she always seemed to be saying, 'Yes, you'd like to, but you mustn't. [11]
It may take time for an earthborn saint to become acclimated to the celestial ether,--that is, if time can be said to exist for a disembodied spirit. [6]
Left Saint Louis three weeks ago on the Pennsylvania. [5]
I will show this brag how one of the Old Guard looked at Saint Jean. [11]
While kneeling at the prie-dieu, she had reached the certainty that her patron saint had led Heinz Schorlin to her. [10]
The church of the patron saint was the great center of attraction. [4]
I am of the opinion that the creed of the Church of the Galileans is not laid down in as many details as that of the Church of Saint Polycarp. [6]
When Barbara entered the huge building a ray of light shone from the private chapel at the left, dedicated to Saint Dorothea. [10]
At that time the homely saint was deposed; and he wears now, I think, a snubbed and cast-aside aspect. [4]
The Church of the Galileans, as it is called, is even humbler in outside pretensions than the Church of Saint Polycarp. [6]
The saint is the friend, and, so to say, companion of the common people. [4]
It is said the Fridolin (the old Fridolin), a new saint, but formerly a missionary, gave the mountain its gracious name. [5]
We came from the forest earlier than we were wont, on Saint Maurice's day, forasmuch as that Ann could not be longer spared and, now more than ever, I could not bear to leave her alone. [10]
The spectacle of the day was the procession bearing the silver image of the saint through the streets. [4]
I don't mean that,--I said,--you blessed little saint and seraph! [6]
There she sat sweet as a saint, very straight up, the palms of her hands laid on the bench on either side, as though they was supporfin' her--like a statue she looked. [11]
The proud and surly old man would have to submit to this penance without cavil, by reason that Pernhart had, since Saint Walpurgis' day, been a member of the council, and he and his family had part and share in the patrician festival. [10]
A great ham stuck with cloves, as Saint Sebastian was with arrows, was again offered for martyrdom. [6]
It must be soon, with the permission of St. Clare, who, since you have chosen her for your patron saint, looks down upon you as well as on me. [10]
We dined with some hospitable Gentiles; and visited the foundation of the prodigious temple; and talked long with that shrewd Connecticut Yankee, Heber C. Kimball (since deceased), a saint of high degree and a mighty man of commerce. [5]
He was all smiles, and had his halo tilted over one ear in a cocky way, and was the most satisfied-looking saint I ever saw. [5]
Yesterday and to-day she had given a three-farthing candle to her saint as a thank offering that this horror had not reached their mother's ears. [10]
Somewhere between the Sermon on the Mount and the teachings of Saint Augustine sin was made a transferable chattel. [6]
It was on Saint Raphael's day, which had attracted his fellow-clerks to a festival in the country. [10]
The Church of Saint Polycarp had very much the look of a Roman Catholic chapel. [6]
Martyrdom made a saint of Mary Queen of Scots three hundred years ago, and she has hardly lost all of her saintship yet. [5]
We got to Saint Louis this morning, after an absence of 3 weeks--that boat generally makes the trip in 2. [5]
Towards evening on Saint Liborius' day,--[July 23rd. [10]
Oh, the sweet Saint Gabrielle hear! [11]
Next day, being Saint Clara's day, there would be a great feast at the Tetzels' house by reason that it was the name-day of Dame Clara, Ursula's grandmother, and the eldest of their kin. [10]
I suppose no saint but the one that went up in the chariot of fire could stand the climate. [5]
Then Eva's image rose before him, and he had asked himself whether she, the devout maiden, would not thank her saint when she learned that he, obedient to her counsel, was beginning to provide for his eternal salvation. [10]
The man was right in his assertion that most of them had been directed to the monastery by monks of the Order of St. Francis, since the name of the Saint of Assisi and the miracles he performed had become known in this country also. [10]
In order to reach the camp on Lac du Sablier from the tiny railroad station at Saint Hubert, a trip of some eight miles up the decharge was necessary. [9]
But she could pray--implore the aid of her saint very fervently; nay, she was more familiar with her, and might hope that she would fulfil a heartfelt wish of hers more quickly than for her sister. [10]
Shakespeare.....112 Napoleon.........84 Plato............81 Plutarch.........70 Goethe...........62 Swift............49 Bacon............47 Milton...........46 Newton...........43 Homer............42 Socrates.........42 Swedenborg.......40 Montaigne........30 Saadi............30 Luther...........30 Webster..........27 Aristotle........25 Hafiz............25 Wordsworth.......25 Burke............24 Saint Paul.......24 Dante............22 Shattuck (Hist. [6]
Oh, if this pilgrimage might yield him Heinz Schorlin's vow to follow his saint and with him the Saviour!--if he might be permitted, clasping in his the hand of the beloved youth he had saved, to exchange this world for eternal bliss! [10]
For, by my patron saint, she forbade me the house as if I were a thief and a burglar. [10]
He is the patron saint of the good town of Sorrento; he is the good genius of all sailors and fishermen; and he has a humbler office,--that of protector of the pigs. [4]
A finer Saint Pantaloon's day I never remember; the very sky seemed to share the city's gladness and was fair to see, in spotless blue. [10]
So she poured out her whole soul to the saint, confessing everything which grieved and oppressed her, until the early mass began. [10]
But I went one day through Saint Omer, with its beautiful church and little blue chateau, past the rest-camps of the big regiments of guards to a seaport on the downs, formerly a quiet little French town, transformed now into an ordered Babel. [9]
So we journeyed on, through the terrible hills and deserts and the roasting sun, and then far into the night, seeking the honored pool of Baalam's ass, the patron saint of all pilgrims like us. [5]
I rode forth on Saint Dionysius' day, the 9th day of October, alone with Cousin Maud; other guests were not long in following us and among them my brothers-in-law and the young Loffelholz pair; Elsa Ebner having wed, some months since, with young Jorg Loffelholz. [10]
Then he turned on me, he was a good man,--and said, 'This will either make you madman or saint, Fawdor. [11]
Of course both of us could not return to St. Louis on the same boat--no pilot could be found, and the Captain sent me to the A. T. Lacey, with orders to her Captain to bring me to Saint Louis. [5]
A silver image of the saint, half life-size, stands upon the rich marble altar. [4]
What Saint Louisan of the last generation does not remember Uhrig's Cave? [9]
They were ignorant of the joys of solitude, which her aunt and her saint had taught her to know. [10]
Under the patronage of that saint of American Jacobinism, Thomas Jefferson, a Jacobin society was organized in Philadelphia,--special guardians of Liberty. [9]
With a sigh of relief, and a hasty thanksgiving to her patron saint, she at once began to praise the virtue and piety of the servant as well as his lord; but Eva again interrupted, and asked what Sir Heinz Schorlin desired. [10]
The last line of one verse was the beginning of another: "A Saint Malo, beau port de mer, Trois gros navir' sont arrives. [11]
Like the saint of old who mortified his flesh, Jane Withersteen had in her the temper for heroic martyrdom, if by sacrificing herself she could save the souls of others. [13]
But what does not one have to submit to who has become the martyr--the Saint Sebastian--of a literary correspondence! [6]
The Queen is not a saint, but very woman. [11]
It flew to Mont Pipeau, to Saint Simon, and to this, that, and the other English fortress; and straightway the garrison applied the torch and took to the fields and the woods. [5]
In old Saint Michael's they knelt to pray for harmony, for peace; for a front bold and undismayed toward those who wronged them. [9]
He says to me a hundred times, 'Carscallen, he made the sign of the cross that he'd come back from Saint Gabrielle; and that's next to the Book with a papist. [11]
And while she may go on with the closed heart and become a saint, even saintship is hardly sufficient to compensate any man or woman for a half-lived life. [11]
Often had I marked on her little finger a certain ring in which a little white thing was set; yet was this no splinter of the bone of a Saint, but the first tooth her banished son had shed. [10]
Under it a man--" "Goes mad or becomes a saint--a saint! [11]
The governor had made up his mind to one thing: Joan was either a witch or a saint, and he meant to find out which it was. [5]
The saint now made a bargain with the wolf, which gave him its paw in pledge of the oath; and it kept the promise, for it followed St. Francis into the city, and never again harmed anyone. [10]
I left Saint Louis on her, but on the way down, Mr. Brown, the pilot that was killed by the explosion (poor fellow,) quarreled with Henry without cause, while I was steering. [5]
Thus had my lord Cardinal commanded, and the work was so excellent that, if the Saint herself vouchsafed to look down on it out of Heaven, of a certainty it was pleasing in her eyes. [10]
In short, she looked fit to spoil a homily for Saint Anthony himself. [6]
No man can live without that sight, even as a saint. [11]
Doesn't he look like our Saint Sebastian? [10]
Instead of that Lenten mockery of the foot washing he now would do the hardest penance, and there was scarce a saint in the Calendar to whom he had not offered gifts or ever he died. [10]
I took the leaves which lie before me at this moment, as I write, from his coffin, as it lay just outside the door of Saint Paul's Church, on a sad, overclouded winter's day, in the year 1867. [6]
She died but lately on Saint Damasius' day last past, and the tale I have to tell concerns her. [10]
Everybody here, indeed, knows of Byron; and I think his memory is more secure than any saint of them all in their stone boxes, partly because his poetry has celebrated the region, perhaps rather from the perpetuated tradition of his generosity. [4]
Sainte-Helene and Maricourt know him, and they with myself, Clermont, and Saint Denis, are to lead and resist attacks by land--Frontenac has promised that: so he must be ours one way or another. [11]
What must the knight, who but yesterday, she knew, had looked up to her as to a saint, think of her now? [10]
For you, Sir Knight, it will gain the favour of the Saint of Assisi, whose power is renowned. [10]
Mr. Gray had just arrived, and the warden, a genial, elderly Boer named Du Plessis--explained that his orders wouldn't allow him to admit saint and sinner at the same time, particularly on a Sunday. [5]
Would you believe it,--that aged saint is a great novel-reader. [6]
Only her face, it would seem, is not in the bargain by reason that he keeps that to rob his saint of her holiness! [10]
And how is it to be at "this place"--and that is Saint Louis? [7]
In that case it is easy to be a saint. [11]
And here she is made a saint of, and poor Aunt Betsey, that did everything for me, is slandered by implication as a horrid tyrant. [6]

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