"Saint David" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bards and minstrels came the gentry of the county, the clergy, and distinguished strangers, before and behind whom banners floated and flags streamed. On many of these banners were fancy portraits of Saint David, the Patron Saint of Wales, always with a harp in his hand. But the Saint must have had a singularly varied expression of countenance, or else his portrait-painters must have been mere block-heads, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858 • Various
... he, "or so was to be, five days gone; and this day is Bishop Ferrar departed toward Saint David's, where he also ...
— Robin Tremain - A Story of the Marian Persecution • Emily Sarah Holt
... in his own territory, certain canons of Saint David's, through a zeal for their church, having previously secured the interest of some of the prince's courtiers, waited on Rhys, and endeavoured by every possible suggestion to induce him not to permit the archbishop to proceed into the interior ...
— The Itinerary of Archibishop Baldwin through Wales • Giraldus Cambrensis |
