Sebastian
[si'bæstjən;-tʃən]
Examples
- Here self-defence was impossible, and individual drops stuck into her like the arrows into Saint Sebastian. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- As for Sebastian del Piombo there, you would judge for yourself; if it were not his later manner, the question was, Who was it? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- So we only groped through the dismal labyrinth of St. Callixtus, under the Church of St. Sebastian. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In this year he took Badajos, he fought the field of Vittoria, he captured Pampeluna, he stormed San Sebastian; in this year he won Salamanca. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Kashkin had been in the north at Irun, at San Sebastian and in the abortive fighting toward Vitoria. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Typist: Nicholas