Impaled on the dexter side with those of his patron saint, Edward the Confessor.

According to one myth, Quetzalcoatl's mother took the name of chalchiuitl "when she ascended to heaven;" by another he was engendered by such a sacred stone; and by all he was designated as the discoverer of the art of cutting and polishing them, and the patron deity of workers in this branch.

Nestor, patron pêcheur.

But he did not know Tommy, who is the bird of Minerva and evidently sprang into being, like his patron goddess, with all his armour on.

At first uncertainty prevails among the patron-critics, and strange looks are exchanged between Swift and Pope, till, by and by, the latter hears Argyle exclaim, "It will do, it must do!

As I have heare priority of place, Boathe by our patrons favour and your voyce, So give me leave to arbitrate amongst you.

Although the spread eagle figures largely as the patron genius of American hotels, still nine-tenths of them bear the names of states, counties, towns, or national or local celebrities.

Narbonadius, the second successor of Nebuchadnezzar, had quarrelled with the priesthood of Babylon, and neglected the worship of Bel-Marduk and Nebo, the special patron gods of that city.

It was his pride to get his patron indoors each night.

If Mrs. Marchbanks had been patron kind, Mrs. Hadden was motherly so.

So few short years had passed since that resolve, And yet he had forgotten loyalty And truth and honour for the fair Leorre, The wife of Reginault, his patron knight, The brave old man who treated him as son.

For even those gondoliers who kept the mariegole were not precisely angels, and the part of their creed which they religiously upheld was a deathless antagonism to the rival faction which won more lamps and pretty gifts for the patron madonnas of the various traghetti than any other article of their faith.

Tis a sweete creature; Our patron owld, shee younge; som hope in that.

In Aries though the sun exalted stood, His patron-planet, to procure his good; 680 Yet Saturn was his mortal foe, and he, In Libra raised, opposed the same degree: The rays both good and bad, of equal power, Each thwarting other, made a mingled hour.

The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.

The patrons procure tickets at an office and then form in linemen, women and children, each with a bucket or a basket, or both, in hand.

These things laid my first patrons prostrate, and the Society of great names which followed, was soon dissolved.

It had rebelled against the Duke of Savoy, who seems to have been in the fifteenth century its patron ruler.

It contained the objects I have describedthe marble panelling, the altar with its candelabra, the statues of the Dukes and their attendant figures, the Madonna and two Medicean patron saintsin fact, all that we find there now, with the addition of Giovanni da Udine's frescoes in the cupola, the relics of which have since been buried under cold Florentine whitewash.

But contrariwise, He tends to recede more and more into the background, behind the ever-multiplying crowd of patron-spirits, guardians, family-gods; till, as in Greece and Rome, He is almost entirely obscured, "an unknown God ignorantly worshipped"the End, as usual, being forgotten and buried in the means.

Dil-gan, my patron star, oh, shine!

Opposed to the four beasts which represented the angels, or demons, the champions of each of the great heathen kingdoms, was Israel's patron angel Michael.

I have prayed to my patron thrice, and sooner or later he will listen to my wants.

They made the more haste because it was the patrons cat.

Phtha was a sort of artisan god, who made the sun, moon, and the earth, "the father of beginnings;" his sign was the scarabaeus, or beetle, and his patron city was Memphis.