211 Verbs to Use for the Word saint

They shall find real saints to draw fromMagdalene, Peter, and Paul; They shall work for an age at a sitting and never be tired at all!

and it's thought that she'll die a saint.

There, panting, she knelt long enough to know the pursuit was, at least, suspended, and then arose, hoping and praying all the saints that she might find the way clear for her return in all haste to Olive.

I haven't seen the dear old saint, for, lo, these many moons.

Over the door there was stone work, representing saints and bishops, and here and there, along the sides of the church, there were figures of men's heads, made in a strange grotesque way: I have since seen the same sort of figures in the round tower of the Temple church in London.

The great religious masters of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries gathered around them crowds of scholars, who travelled with them from city to city, partaking in their commissions and executing their designs, especially of ex-voto pictures, multiplied in that age by the piety of noble families, to commemorate some special interposition of divine power in their behalf and to honor their patron saints.

It has worn out the saints, the Religious Encyclopedia estimating that the lives of fifty millions of Christians have been quenched in blood by its merciless implements of torture.

Most striking, probably, of the characteristics of the "Lives" is their very evident effort to exalt and glorify the saint at any cost.

"Then thou mayst go thy ways; and thank thy patron saint that I am a merciful man," said the Tanner.

By virtue of religious sympathy, he has brought the Saints over to the side of the abolition of Negro slavery.

I don't mean that,I said,you blessed little saint and seraph!if there's an angel missing in the New Jerusalem, inquire for her at this boarding-house!I don't mean that; I mean that Ithat is, youamareconfound it!I mean that you'll be what most people call a lady of fortune.

There are too many Christians at this day who worship saints, and idols of wood and stone; and so may our descendants door do even worse.

Now, indeed, our capitano did yelp; now did the crew yelp, invoking all the saints of the Roman calendar, instead of attending to the ship.

On another occasion there came to Mochuda a secular who brought with him his deaf and dumb son whom he besought the saint to heal.

At last, having joined us, they said he was Sidi Amour Abeda, a man of exceeding sanctity, and that if the Bey had met the saint, his Highness must have done the same.

Above our van great angels Shall fight along the sky; While martyrs pure and crowned saints To God for rescue cry.

Yet there be Saints uncanonised, Unrecognised, unknown Here on the common roads of earth, Oft times they walk alone; Saints whom no soul hath ever praised, Saints whom no Church doth own.

HERBST, WINFRID. Follow the saints.

She called several leading saints to witness that her barn was full to bursting anyhow and there was no room.

Her trouble is in the very caress of the mysterious child, whose gaze is always far from her, and who has already that sweet look of devotion which men have never been able altogether to love, and which still makes the born saint an object almost of suspicion to his earthly brethren.

Why, bless me, we're only schoolboys; it'll be lots of time to turn saint some other day.

I do; but your case is, I am grieved to say, desperate, unless I am informed of the cause of these monstrous weals, bruises, slashes, and chafings, in order that my prescription, may""The cause of them," said Perez, almost frightened to death, "is, having to my cost a saint of a wife.

Miss K. is charmed with everything, the cornucopias, natural brackets, crosses, etc., and her delusion as to all of us, whom she fancies saints and angels, is quite charming, only it won't last.

Michael Angelo was enabled to paint the saints and sibyls of the Sistine Chapel from familiarity with the writings of the Jewish prophets.

Who trains God's Saints, He must transform, not petNature's corrupt throughout A gaudy snake, which must be crushed, not tamed, A cage of unclean birds, deceitful ever; Born in the likeness of the fiend, which Adam Did at the Fall, the Scripture saith, put on.

211 Verbs to Use for the Word  saint