Sample sentences for FRANCISCAN

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Definition

relating to Saint Francis of Assisi or to the order founded by him

He is a Franciscan monk.

Holy Franciscan friar! brother, ho!
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
San Franciscans were amused but voted for someone else.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
I wish we had something like the Augustines or the Franciscans.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
Priests come to the school to recruit us for the foreign missions, Redemptorists, Franciscans, Holy Ghost Fathers, all converting the distant heathen.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
Our house was a fourteen-room typical San Franciscan post-Earthquake affair.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
A few women, looking cold and forlorn in the howling San Franciscan wind, stumble down the sidewalk toward some destination only they know.
Susan Ee -- Angelfall
The director had begun to speak of the dominican and franciscan orders and of the friendship between saint Thomas and saint Bonaventure.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
She is a graduate of Harvard and New York Medical College, where her favorite professor was a Franciscan priest who taught anatomy.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
Tuesday for dinner at the old Franciscan.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
As the car clanked through the financial district, San Franciscans showered them with cigars, money, and congratulations.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
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.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
Like the wraith, Hades was dressed in the habit of a Franciscan monk, which Nico found vaguely disturbing.
Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
Do you mean Roger Bacon, the Franciscan friar?
James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
Now she entered the church depressed and humiliated, not even able to remember whether it was built by the Franciscans or the Dominicans.
E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
But to our Franciscan there was no element of doubt in the experiment.
Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Where San Franciscans saw an urban nuisance, Charles Howard saw opportunity.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
This country was evangelized in fifteen hundred, by the Franciscan Fathers.
Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
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.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain

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