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Franciscan
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  • He was wearing a mechanic's overalls and Franciscan sandals without socks,, and he had a huge black beard that reached halfway down his chest.†   (source)
  • She is a graduate of Harvard and New York Medical College, where her favorite professor was a Franciscan priest who taught anatomy.†   (source)
  • A few women, looking cold and forlorn in the howling San Franciscan wind, stumble down the sidewalk toward some destination only they know.†   (source)
  • San Franciscans were amused but voted for someone else.†   (source)
  • The Franciscans.†   (source)
  • I wish we had something like the Augustines or the Franciscans.†   (source)
  • I cycle to the Franciscan church to pray for Theresa.†   (source)
  • There is an arm around my shoulders, a brown robe, click of black rosary beads, a Franciscan priest.†   (source)
  • I ride from Redemptorists to Jesuits to Augustinians to Dominicans to Franciscans.†   (source)
  • He took his Franciscan vows in 1961 and was ordained as a priest in 1970.†   (source)
  • Two years had done little to pacify the San Franciscan hostility for the automobile.†   (source)
  • When he told the lady on the till upstairs, they said it was called Tuck and he was a ghost of a Franciscan friar who used to live in the monastery which was on the same site hundreds of years ago, which was why the shopping center was called Greyfriars Shopping Center, and they were used to him and not frightened at all.†   (source)
  • San Franciscans would have sworn on the Golden Gate Bridge that racism was missing from the heart of their air-conditioned city.†   (source)
  • Native San Franciscans, possessive of the city, had to cope with an influx, not of awed respectful tourists but of raucous unsophisticated provincials.†   (source)
  • To San Franciscans "the City That Knows How" was the Bay, the fog, Sir Francis Drake Hotel, Top o' the Mark, Chinatown, the Sunset District and so on and so forth and so white.†   (source)
  • Not that I identified with the newcomers, nor with the rare Black descendants of native San Franciscans, nor with the whites or even the Asians, but rather with the times and the city.†   (source)
  • Out on my arse jobless and a mother to support that's ninety-two and a daily communicant in the Franciscan church.†   (source)
  • With the haughtiness San Franciscans have for people who live in the warmer climate, she explained that all I needed were lots of shorts, pedal pushers, sandals and blouses because "southern Californians hardly ever wear anything else."†   (source)
  • I slip the telegram under the door and cycle back down to the Franciscan church to beg for the repose of Theresa's soul.†   (source)
  • I have the whole day before I go to Mrs. Finucane to write the threatening letters and I wander down Henry Street till the rain drives me into the Franciscan church where St. Francis stands with his birds and lambs.†   (source)
  • The naval officers with their well-dressed wives and clean white babies inhabited another time-space dimension than I. The well-kept old women in chauffeured cars and blond girls in buckskin shoes and cashmere sweaters might have been San Franciscans, but they were at most gilt on the frame of my portrait of the city.†   (source)
  • He was as austere as a Franciscan.†   (source)
  • While San Franciscans were reading his obituary in several papers, the decidedly undead Neves rode like a man possessed, finishing second or third on all five of his mounts.†   (source)
  • Tuesday for dinner at the old Franciscan.†   (source)
  • This country was evangelized in fifteen hundred, by the Franciscan Fathers.†   (source)
  • But to our Franciscan there was no element of doubt in the experiment.†   (source)
  • The Perichole was at first difficult of approach, but presently even liked the Franciscan.†   (source)
  • He wore a Franciscan's brown gown, and his hair was clipped short.†   (source)
  • There were monks and friars and abbots of every description, standing about in sandals among the knights, whose armour flashed by candlelight There was even a Franciscan bishop, wearing grey, with a red hat.†   (source)
  • It was kept by Franciscans.†   (source)
  • The Church the Franciscan Fathers planted here was cut off; this is the second growth, and is indigenous.†   (source)
  • He whispered into the Franciscan's ear such thoughts and anecdotes as belied the notion of a guided world.†   (source)
  • This Franciscan had considerable success, with his tales of pious Indian converts and struggling missions.†   (source)
  • By a series of coincidences so extraordinary that one almost suspects the presence of some Intention, this little red-haired Franciscan from Northern Italy happened to be in Peru converting the Indians and happened to witness the accident.†   (source)
  • When, as a young man, Father Latour first went down into Old Mexico, to claim his See at the hands of the Bishop of Durango, he had met on his journey priests from the missions of Sonora and Lower California, who related many stories of the blessed experiences of the early Franciscan missionaries.†   (source)
  • But her biographers have erred in one direction as greatly as the Franciscan did in another; they have tried to invest her with a host of graces, to read back into her life and person some of the beauties that abound in her letters, whereas all real knowledge of this wonderful woman must proceed from the act of humiliating her and of divesting her of all beauties save one.†   (source)
  • But not at all; the hairy Franciscan pounced upon one of the best in the collection; a young St. Francis in meditation, by El Greco, and the model for the saint was one of the very handsome Dukes of Albuquerque.†   (source)
  • Frightful stories of the torture of the missionaries in the great rebellion of 1680 flashed into Friar Baltazar's mind; how one Franciscan had his eyes torn out, another had been burned, and the old Padre at Jamez had been stripped naked and driven on all fours about the plaza all night, with drunken Indians straddling his back, until he rolled over dead from exhaustion.†   (source)
  • The director had begun to speak of the dominican and franciscan orders and of the friendship between saint Thomas and saint Bonaventure.†   (source)
  • There were portraits of men with large, melancholy eyes which seemed to say you knew not what; there were long monks in the Franciscan habit or in the Dominican, with distraught faces, making gestures whose sense escaped you; there was an Assumption of the Virgin; there was a Crucifixion in which the painter by some magic of feeling had been able to suggest that the flesh of Christ's dead body was not human flesh only but divine; and there was an Ascension in which the Saviour seemed…†   (source)
  • Our ecclesiastic here can confirm for you that the world of the medio evo is not complete if Franciscan mysticism lacks the opposing pole of Thomistic insight.†   (source)
  • Now she entered the church depressed and humiliated, not even able to remember whether it was built by the Franciscans or the Dominicans.†   (source)
  • His own image started forth a profaner of the cloister, a heretic franciscan, willing and willing not to serve, spinning like Gherardino da Borgo San Donnino, a lithe web of sophistry and whispering in her ear.†   (source)
  • —I believe, continued the director, that there is some talk now among the capuchins themselves of doing away with it and following the example of the other franciscans.†   (source)
  • Here were ruins of a Franciscan priory, and a mill attached to the same, the water of which roared down a back-hatch like the voice of desolation.†   (source)
  • They were all round here, they fairly swarmed, booted and barefooted, shaven, bearded, gray, black, white, Franciscans, Minims, Capuchins, Carmelites, Little Augustines, Great Augustines, old Augustines—there was no end of them.†   (source)
  • "I should be glad of any treatment that would cure me without reducing me to a skeleton, like poor Grainger," said Mr. Vincy, the mayor, a florid man, who would have served for a study of flesh in striking contrast with the Franciscan tints of Mr. Bulstrode.†   (source)
  • As he passed the Rue de la Huchette, the odor of those admirable spits, which were incessantly turning, tickled his olfactory apparatus, and he bestowed a loving glance toward the Cyclopean roast, which one day drew from the Franciscan friar, Calatagirone, this pathetic exclamation: ~Veramente, queste rotisserie sono cosa stupenda~!†   (source)
  • I nodded at the Franciscan to do as he said, and the monk quickly muffled the hot cup of oil in a folded towel, then carried it away down the hall.†   (source)
  • Performed in a monastery, in company with a robed Franciscan, the act seemed somewhat less degenerate.†   (source)
  • Returning from the refectory a bit later, I spotted a trim figure in the black robes of a Franciscan, crossing the courtyard toward the cloister.†   (source)
  • Plainly this man was a visitor to the monastery, his black Franciscan robes conspicuous as an inkblot among the brown of the Benedictines.†   (source)
  • He drank the wine slowly, as the Franciscan helped me to change the stained bandages, smoothing fresh marigold ointment over the wounds.†   (source)
  • The Franciscan smiled.†   (source)
  • Here pilgrims roam, that strayed so far to seek In Golgotha him dead, who lives in Heaven; And they, who to be sure of Paradise, Dying, put on the weeds of Dominick, Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised; They pass the planets seven, and pass the fixed, And that crystalling sphere whose balance weighs The trepidation talked, and that first moved; And now Saint Peter at Heaven's wicket seems To wait them with his keys, and now at foot Of Heaven's ascent they lift their feet, when lo…†   (source)
  • Holy Franciscan friar! brother, ho!†   (source)
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