"Sainthood" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had the rich olive complexion, with the gold struggling through, large, lustrous black eyes, and harmonious features, is only to make a weak photograph, when I should paint a picture in colors and infuse it with the sweet loveliness of a maiden on the way to sainthood. I was sure that I had seen her before, looking down from the balcony of a villa just beyond the Roman wall, for the face was not one that even the most unimpressible idler would forget. I was sure that, young as she was, she had already a history; had lived her life, and now walked ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... him, as to a fakir or shaman of the East; notably one Beccel, who acted as his servant; and how as Beccel was shaving the saint one day there fell on him a great temptation: Why should he not cut St. Guthlac's throat, and instal himself in his cell, that he might have the honour and glory of sainthood? But St. Guthlac perceived the inward temptation (which is told with the naive honesty of those half-savage times), and rebuked the offender into confession, and all went well to ...
— The Hermits • Charles Kingsley
... crypt are the reliques of the dusky Sara, the servant of the holy Marys. She herself has been elevated to sainthood as the patronne of the vagabond gipsies of all the world. On the occasion of the Fete of Les Saintes Maries the nomads, Bohemians, and Gitanos from all corners of the globe, who have been able to make the ...
— The Automobilist Abroad • M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
... monstrous hats no glimmering dream Of the high beauty of the human head, House of the brain: seat of the sentient soul; Haloed for sainthood; crowned for royalty; Bright-ringed with roses, wreathed with noble bays, Most beautifully bound with ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... relics; and among these the heart extracted from her body was suspended. Upon it, apparently wrought into the very substance of the mummied flesh, were impressed a figure of the crucified Christ, the scourge, and the five stigmata. The guardian's faith in this miraculous witness to her sainthood, the gentle piety of the men and women who knelt before it, checked all expressions of incredulity. We abandoned ourselves to the genius of the place; forgot even to ask what Santa Chiara was sleeping here; and withdrew, toned to a not unpleasing melancholy. ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds
... follows that, in so far as I am "free," it is useless to praise me, to blame me, to punish me, to endeavor to persuade me. I must be given over to unaccountable sainthood or to a reprobate mind, as it happens to happen. I am quite beyond the pale of society, for my neighbor cannot influence my "free" acts any more than ...
— An Introduction to Philosophy • George Stuart Fullerton
... dread hour Were terrible Stains not their sainthood, nor is heaven less sure That ...
— At Ypres with Best-Dunkley • Thomas Hope Floyd |
