70 adjectives to describe friars

And Claudio said to the lady in the mask, "Give me your hand, before this holy friar; I am your husband, if you will marry me."

From this second narrative it appears, that Vincentius had received an account of the journey of the second mission from Simon de St Quintin, a minorite friar belonging to the party; and that he had worked up along with this, the whole of the narrative which had been separately published by Carpini of his journey; which indeed forms by far the larger and more interesting portion of the work published by Vincentius.

" "Nay," whispered the friar, with pleading hand on Beltane's arm, "'tis thing impossible" "Yet must I try, good brother" "Ah, dear my son, 'twill be thy death" "Why look you, gentle friar, I am in Belsaye, and Belsaye 'is in the hand of God!'

The worthy friar, struck by the noble bearing of a man so poor and wearied, became delighted with the conversation of his guest, who opened to him both his heart and his schemes.

So cried the tall white friar, pallid of cheek but dauntless of eye, and ever as he cried, smote he upon door and shutter with his sword, and ever his company grew.

Giovanni di Vicenza, yet many of the itinerant friars, the first, we believe, who addressed the people with great activity in the vulgar tongue, must have been much circumscribed by the limits of their own patois.

All the metaphors and similes applied to his Excellency, Padre Irene, and Padre Salvi would exactly fit the wounded friar and the description of the thief would serve for each of the outlaws.

He pointed to a picture of a lean friar of thoughtful mien who was seated at a table with his head resting on the palm of his hand, apparently writing a sermon by the light of a lamp.

Then Beltane took from his pouch flint and steel and tinder and gave them to the old man's trembling fingers as Giles o' the Bow came running with the stalwart friar behind him.

NOVEMBER How like a hooded friar, bent and grey, Whose pensive lips speak only when they pray Doth sad November pass upon his way.

It does not seem to me expedient, that any more friars should be sent to the Tartars, in the way I went, or as the predicant friars go.

" "Thou pratest like an ass," said Robin, "for I could send this shaft clean through thy proud heart before a curtal friar could say grace over a roast goose at Michaelmastide.

Gradually she brought the provincial of the order over to her views, and also the celebrated friar, Peter of Alcantara, the most eminent ecclesiastic in Spain.

" Then, as the yeomen ran to do their master's bidding, Tuck turned to one of the mock friars.

" "Yes, it was a providence," broke in the count"a real hermit, not one of those fat friars, with shaven crowns, we have in Rome, but a genuine recluse, a man whose life is one long act of practical piety.

" "Talking of fatness," said the Peddler, "thou thyself lookest none too ill-fed, holy friar.

"Nor, gentle daughter," said the feigned friar, "fear you to do this thing; Angelo is her husband, and to bring them thus together is no sin."

Father Anselmo was in the usual attire of a bare-footed friar of his order.

The door to success was at last opened to him by a friendly and sympathetic friar of a Franciscan convent near the little port of Palos, in Andalusia.

Perhaps this grave friar, apparently so careless of his distinction, was the unsuspected intellectual thread which bound, as it were, together the various influential circles of Venice; for in every centre, plebeian or patrician, where there was anything new to be mooted or anything of value to be discussed, he was a visitor so welcome and so frequent that he might well have exerted a steady, unifying influence upon Venetian thought.

I have heard the gray-haired friar tell How on her death-bed she did say, That she should hear the castle-bell 200 Strike twelve upon my wedding-day.

He complained bitterly to the Florentine ambassador, of the haughty friar who rebuked and defied him.

" It was a promise of great comfort; for Pierinoshe could not call him by the new namewould need such loving care; already the mother's pulse beat more tranquilly, and she almost smiled her gratitude in the large-hearted friar's face.

Villa would not shake hands with him, as was natural, but the priest was able to see that he was confused when he saw the distinction and courtesy with which an American general had treated a helpless friar.

The friarsand I do not say, you friars, since I do not confuse you with the common herdthe friars of all the orders have constituted themselves our mental purveyors, yet they say and shamelessly proclaim that it is not expedient for us to become enlightened, because some day we shall declare ourselves free!

70 adjectives to describe  friars