This deceased saint checked my imprecation by calling to my mind the divine prayer of our holy Savior, and with a chastened and humble spirit I repeated after her: 'Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.
An inscription on a wall within tells us Germain, the busy bishop of Auxerre, first met Geneviève of Nanterre here, and tradition says the future patron saint of Paris took her vows on the spot.
Saint Simon wrote his diaries and in 1755 died here.
Impasse St-Fiacre, the word saintcut away at the Revolution, where dwelt the first hirer-out of cabs; hence the term fiacre.
Dominique," the word saint suppressed in Revolution days.
Louis XV, lying dangerously ill at Metz, made a vow to build on his recovery a church dedicated to the patron saintof Paris.
The name of Rue Jussienne is a corruption of Marie l'Égyptienne, patron saint of a fourteenth-century chapel which stood there till 1791.
Soon as each babe was twelve days old Twas time the naming rite to hold, When Saint Vaśishtha, rapt with joy, Assigned a name to every boy.
Then, loved and honored with all care By monarch and by courtier, there The glorious saint abode.
Then pure and pleased they sate aroundSaint Viśvámitra, on the ground.
Glad at the words of that high saint Some servants hastened to acquaint Their King, rejoicing to impart The tidings that would cheer his heart.
She, by his awful curse possessed, And mad with rage that fills her breast, Has on this land her fury dealt Where once the saint Agastya dwelt.
Before the saint Vaśishtha stood All those who wrought with stone and wood, And showed the work which every one In furtherance of the rite had done.
And after that King Arthur said and commanded his cousin Howell, that he should ordain for a church to be builded on the same hill in the worship of Saint Michael.
Then he called to him Sir Kay and Sir Bedivere, and commanded them secretly to make ready horse and harness for himself and them twain; for after evensong he would ride on pilgrimage with them two only unto Saint Michael's mount.
Also there were slain at that battle twelve kings on the side of King Lot with Nero, and all were buried in the Church of Saint Stephen's in Camelot, and the remnant of knights and of others were buried in a great rock.
THEN was the high feast made ready, and the king was wedded at Camelot unto Dame Guenever in the church of Saint Stephen's, with great solemnity.
When cold the winds blow, And comes the white snow, Then look out for good Saint Nick.
Louis XI built them; the carceres duri and vade in pace, however, dated from Saint Mauritius, fourth abbot of the Mount.
When you and I met at Saint Alban's last, Your legs did better service than your hands.
Why then, let's on our way in silent sort; For Warwick and his friends, God and Saint George!
He has never raised up a prophet or a great saint in this country.
The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Paris, where it was spilled.
The Father of the Marshalsea Thirty years ago there stood, a few doors short of the church of Saint George, in the Borough of Southwark, on the left-hand side of the way going southward, the Marshalsea Prison.
Perhaps I might be a Saint Anthony where you are concerned.
They look like cut-throats and murderers, but he is like the image of the little Saint John in church.
Moon and stars were sufficient to light his face, so that I could see the sad, far-away eyes, eyes more fit for a saint than a soldier.
I lay my life on it, that if discharged, it will bring down whatever it is aimed at--saint or sinner.
Through the wheel-window the orange beams streamed in a long banner, and lit up the figure of the saint above us.
It was his votive gift to the saintand may be seen there to this day.
Daniel Saint was an excellent artist, though not, perhaps, of the first rank; there are several examples of his work in the Wallace Collection, and he may be regarded as the successor of Augustin and Dumont.
A slave, as Saint Paul has emphatically taught us, may be as true a Christian as his master.
If the insect happens to alight on a Hottentot, he is looked upon as a man without guilt, and distinguished and reverenced as a saint and the delight of the Deity ever after.
For though, by God's grace, Jacob became a saint in the end, it took much discipline and trouble to mould him into a true godliness.
Clouds may come--are sure to come: I think no one past earliest youth goes forth into a strange region without a feeling akin to Saint Paul's "not knowing what things may befall me there.
Whatever Friar Marcos may have sacrificed to careful truth was atoned for, we may be sure, by the zealous, loyal brethren of blessed Saint Francis.
The war cry or “loud invocation addressed to Saint James before engaging in battle with the Infidels.
After this had been done, he started with his army at a very bad time, when the rains were beginning, for it was about Saint John’s day, at which season it rains continuously.
The skull of St. Swithun is said to have been taken to Canterbury by St. Elphege in the eleventh century, and an arm of this patron saint of Winchester was one of the most treasured possessions of Peterborough.
The bridge at the foot of the High Street marks the former limit of the navigability of the river, and is the reputed site of the legend concerning St. Swithun and the old woman to whom the saint restored her eggs.
The planting of Saint Barbara's grain," he said, "is a custom that I think is peculiar to the South of France.
Actually, I was near a fortnight behind the time named in my invitation: which had stated expressly that Christmas began in Provence on the Feast of Saint Barbara, and that I was expected not later than that day--December 4th.
The custom must be of Pagan origin, and therefore dates from far back of the time when Saint Barbara lived in her three-windowed tower at Heliopolis.
Its invention is ascribed to Saint Francis of Assisi.
How reverently we would gaze on them, and how we would admire the brave pages who carried the trains of their long mantles, and the hump-backed camels whose heads towered high above Saint Mary and Saint Joseph and the ox and the ass.
Monsieur should have been here," said the housekeeper with decision, "when we planted the blessed Saint Barbara's grain.
But my apologetic explanation that I never even had heard of Saint Barbara's grain only made my case the more deplorable.
When holy Saint Louis wore the crown of France, the good old town of Arras was just six hundred years younger than it is now.
Saint Lazarus, from the dead, in such a frosty fashion!
Meanwhile Susie wandered down the Boulevard Saint Michel, alert with the Sunday crowd, to that part of Paris which was dearest to her heart.
It should be remembered that Lactantius proclaimed belief in the existence of antipodes inane, and Saint Augustine of Hippo added that in any case there could be no question of inhabited lands.
The bell of Saint Sulpice was ringing for vespers.
The heat beat down upon the noisy streets of Paris, and the din of the great city penetrated even to his fastness in the Île Saint Louis.
Seen through his eyes, the seashore in the Saint Anne had the airless lethargy of some damasked chapel in a Spanish nunnery, and over the landscapes brooded a wan spirit of evil that was very troubling.
L'Île Saint Louis to her mind offered a synthesis of the French spirit, and it pleased her far more than the garish boulevards in which the English as a rule seek for the country's fascination.
In one corner they could see the squat, quaint towers of Saint Sulpice, and on the other side the uneven roofs of the Boulevard Saint Michel.
Mona Lisa andSaint John the Baptist, Bacchus and the mother of Mary, went with enigmatic motions.
Dr Porhoët had asked Arthur to bring Margaret and Miss Boyd to see him on Sunday at his apartment in the Île Saint Louis; and the lovers arranged to spend an hour on their way at the Louvre.
They had lunched at a restaurant in the Boulevard Saint Michel, and were sauntering now in the gardens of the Luxembourg.
He found exotic fancies in the likeness between Saint John the Baptist, with his soft flesh and waving hair, and Bacchus, with his ambiguous smile.
A small effigy, apparently of the Elizabethan period, built into the interior of the tower, is usually supposed to represent the patron saint of the church.
St. Llawddog, from whom this church inherits its euphonious patronymic, appears to have been a saint of some local celebrity, for his name crops up at more than one place in the immediate neighbourhood.
The largest of these is reputed to represent St. Bride, the patron saint of the church, a contemporary of St. David and St. Patrick.
In one of these dingles is St. Teilo's Well, a wayside spring frequented by that saint in days of yore.
St. Byrnach, the patron saint of Newport Church, was an Irishman by birth, and a contemporary of St. David.
The next day the saint fared even worse, for, coming to Cilmaenllwyd, he was obliged, for lack of better accommodation, to repose beneath the gray cromlech that gives the place its name.
You are a saintif you are a true believer in Christ; and you are to be an unblemished saint.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saint" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
