Saints

Examples

• Blaspheme not the holy saints, Sir Reginald, said De Bracy, we shall have need of their aid to-day before yon rascal rout disband. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• We have seen pictures of martyrs enough, and saints enough, to regenerate the world. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I go; but when I return, I swear by all the saints that you shall suffer agonies for every word you have uttered to-day. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I can't bear saints. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Then what a splendid art it must be, if it keeps the pictures of the blessed saints for us! Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In the catacombs were buried St. Cecilia, St. Agnes, and several other of the most celebrated of the saints. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• To be anxious about a soul that is always snapping at you must be left to the saints of the earth; and Mary was not one of them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Oh, great saints! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Now, the saints forbid, said the Prior, that the son of the Saxon Cedric should leave our convent ere his wounds were healed! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• What gasconading rascals those saints must have been, if they first boasted these exploits or invented these miracles. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It would be pleasing to the saints if one used so fine a rosary as this, instead of wearing it as a vain bijou. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• One night a thunder-storm broke; a sort of hurricane shook us in our beds: the Catholics rose in panic and prayed to their saints. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But I will undo some of my work that you saints call wicked. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• This book contained legends of the saints. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Neither of Peter nor of Paul nor of any of the other saints nor apostles. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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