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A legend (known not to be true) is that St. Patrick rid Ireland of snakes.
St. Patrick = Apostle and patron saint of Ireland; an English missionary to Ireland in the 5th century (c 385-461)
- They all stood in the sun beside the statue of St. Patrick... (source)
- Rule number three: Observe the high holidays—Saint Patrick's Day and the day of the Georgia-Florida football game.† (source)
- An' isn't it a very curious thing that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland an' the English brought in the fleas.† (source)
- Across the street by the park, artists were setting up their stalls, unrolling their canvases, pinning up their watercolor reproductions of St. Patrick's Cathedral and the Brooklyn Bridge.† (source)
- Root won acceptance into Oxford, but before he could matriculate, the war ended and his father summoned him back to America, to his new home in New York City, where Root studied civil engineering at New York University and became a draftsman for the architect who later designed St. Patrick's Cathedral.† (source)
- I could tell them I went alligator hunting in St. Patrick's Cathedral last night, and they'd believe it.† (source)
- I remember 'cause we were serving corned beef sandwiches for St. Patrick's Day and I couldn't get him to order one.† (source)
- For the past three years they'd forgotten to leave out milk and cookies for Santa, somehow forgotten their pact that we would go camping every Fourth of July weekend, and even, on occasion, forgot to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.† (source)
- "It was Saint Patrick's Day," says Michelle, "and Kelley has never liked the color green, but everything in the store was green that day, and out of the blue she said, 'I think I'm starting to like the color green.† (source)
- I tried New York again, zooming from the Empire State Building to St. Patrick's.† (source)
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- Not until Sunday, March i 7, St. Patrick's Day, did the wind turn fair and favorable.† (source)
- It's Saint Patrick's Cathedral.† (source)
- They visited many tourist attractions-the Empire State Building, St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Bronx Zoo, Radio City Music Hall-and had even circumnavigated Manhattan on the Circle Line Ferry.† (source)
- St. Patrick's was bulging by the time she arrived.† (source)
- We learn to draw the Union Jack, using a ruler and memorizing the various crosses, for St. George of England, St. Patrick of Ireland, St. Andrew of Scotland, St. David of Wales.† (source)
- The pilgrimage route to Saint Patrick's mountain.† (source)
- They continued debate on whether the resolution was privileged while the party faithful hurried back from St. Patrick's Day parades.† (source)
- Savannah has the third-biggest Saint Patrick's Day parade in America.† (source)
- St. Patrick's Day in Savannah was the equivalent of Mardi Gras in New Orleans.† (source)
- It was a perfect spot for watching the St. Patrick's Day parade.† (source)
- Like most St. Patrick's Day parades, Savannah's was an ecumenical affair.† (source)
- And then St. Patrick's Church is looming over us.† (source)
- She was important enough, and Catholic enough, to warrant St. Patrick's Cathedral.† (source)
- A week ago, on Saint Patrick's Day, Adam's team was given a challenging mission.† (source)
- It was Saint Patrick's Day, and he made sure to wear something green so he wouldn't get pinched.† (source)
- It was Wednesday, Saint Patrick's Day, and both Nathan and Savannah were wearing green.† (source)
- On St. Patrick's Day in 1910, Norris rose to address the "Czar.† (source)
- I sit at the graves of Oliver and Eugene in the old St. Patrick's Burying Ground and cross the road to St. Lawrence's Cemetery where Theresa is buried.† (source)
- A few weeks later—the day before the St. Patrick's Day parade—the Department of Inspections again ordered Joe to stop the tours at once or face legal action.† (source)
- This was the first time Joe had lived in a house on the actual parade route, and as a result his St. Patrick's Day party was an even bigger draw than usual.† (source)
- Days of fearful tension followed until Sunday, March 17, St. Patrick's Day, when she went again to the top of Penn's Hill to see a spectacle such as no one could ever have imagined—the British were abandoning Boston.† (source)
- Was Notre Dame as big as St. Patrick's?† (source)
- There was no St. Patrick's churches.† (source)
- We went into St. Patrick's.† (source)
- I went to St. Patrick's.† (source)
- The almonds were green and white; they had no business being green and white at this time of the year; the colors of St. Patrick's Day—then there was always candy like that in all the store windows—and St. Patrick's Day meant spring—no, better than spring, that moment of wonderful anticipation just before spring is to begin.† (source)
- Bejees, you know the old story, when Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland they swam to New York and joined the police force!† (source)
- Wouldn't it be awfully original if you made it a St. Patrick's Day bridge!† (source)
- Thank you so much for the idea about having a St. Patrick's Day bridge.† (source)
- On May 15, 1824, his ship, the St. Patrick, passed by Tikopia Island, one of the New Hebrides.† (source)
- Why, say, one day he showed up at the St. Patrick picnic, even if he is a dirty Protestant, and him and Father Costello chummed up like two old cronies, and darn' if he didn't wrestle a fellow half his age, and awful' near throw him, yes, you bet he did, he certainly give that young fellow a run for his money all right!† (source)
- On the first occasion he'd caught me on St. Patrick's Day not wearing a green necktie and bruised my ribs.† (source)
- He swears (His Highness not His Lordship) by saint Patrick.† (source)
- Saint Patrick converted him to Christianity.† (source)
- Clever idea Saint Patrick the shamrock.† (source)
- Not that I...But, by Saint Patrick!† (source)
- —Saint Patrick would want to land again at Ballykinlar and convert us, says the citizen, after allowing things like that to contaminate our shores.† (source)
- DAVY STEPHENS: Messenger of the Sacred Heart and Evening Telegraph with Saint Patrick's Day supplement.† (source)
- Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio, And much offence too.† (source)
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