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  • I saw St. Peter's, though only from the outside.†   (source)
  • This is Saint Peter.†   (source)
  • The brave youth was rushed to St. Peter's Hospital in New Brunswick.†   (source)
  • Zeitoun packed the kids up in the van, drove the few miles to the French Quarter, and looked for the corner of St. Peter and Bourbon.†   (source)
  • She tells Mam that Mikey has more sense than twelve men drinking pints in a pub. He knows the names of all the Popes from St. Peter to Pius the Eleventh.†   (source)
  • The Three Doctors today: Dr. Rameck Hunt, M.D., is a board-certified internist at St. Peter's University Hospital and an assistant clinical professor of medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.†   (source)
  • I'm gonna save them and buy me a new horn so St. Peter can hear me when it's time to open the gates.†   (source)
  • Here's St. Peter.†   (source)
  • "You are going to argue with Saint Peter at the gate," Mama said.†   (source)
  • But he got so he couldn't get up out of bed and wouldn't eat and ran a fever, so I took him to St. Peter's Hospital.†   (source)
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  • It began in 1506 and lasted for a hundred and twenty years, and it took another fifty before the huge St. Peter's Square was completed.†   (source)
  • The maid also returned his telegrams, his verses, his dry camellias, and asked him to send back her letters and gifts, Aunt Escolastica's missal, the veins of leaves from her herbariums, the square centimeter of the habit of St. Peter Clavier, the saints' medals, the braid of her fifteenth year tied with the silk ribbon of her school uniform.†   (source)
  • The next few times up and down the court and St. Peter's was moving ahead slow without playing any real ball.†   (source)
  • "Doubting" Thomas built his first churches in Kerala well before St. Peter got to Rome.†   (source)
  • If on Judgment Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf.†   (source)
  • Even now, if you go to a bar or restaurant in Birmingham, you will eventually hear the water joke: Saint Peter welcomes a man into heaven.†   (source)
  • I looked up the St. Peter's Parish number in the phone book.†   (source)
  • And even though we heard what they thought of the deacon at St. Peter's (a "supercilious moron"), what they thought of the neighbors ("He's courting a heart attack with all that fat"), what they thought of one sister when the other sister was up in her room—we were not meant to repeat it.†   (source)
  • Dear Wheeze, What do you think St. Peter said to Franklin D. Roosevelt?†   (source)
  • He held up both hands, as a pope might from his balcony in St. Peter's Square, and spoke.†   (source)
  • Saint Peter, or some other bird?†   (source)
  • It's St. Peter, actually.†   (source)
  • St. Peter would be tempted by such gossip.†   (source)
  • The Bear had once confided to me that Durrell's ego could fit snuglyin the basilica of St. Peter's in Rome but in very few other public places.†   (source)
  • "He would have admitted climbing the golden stairs and cutting St. Peter's throat with a bowling ball," the judge said.†   (source)
  • But the theory is that he's also the Vicar of God, the descendant of St. Peter, our only link with Christ.†   (source)
  • Even when the old lady described the Cathedral of Monreale from front to back, and more than one time said, "First church in the world for beauty, Saint Peter second," Mama only closed her eyes and gave a brief click of the tongue.†   (source)
  • Some say it's a Christian reference to the hidden teachings of Saint Peter—the Rock.†   (source)
  • I'm gonna tell St. Peter to open the gates.†   (source)
  • There was an Egyptian monolith in St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • Do you know the corner of Bourbon and St. Peter?†   (source)
  • And St. Peter's Church can boast neither of moderation nor restraint.†   (source)
  • The antimatter is on St. Peter's tomb," the camerlegno said, his voice crystalline.†   (source)
  • In Vatican City, at the heart of St. Peter's Square, stood the great Egyptian obelisk.†   (source)
  • It's time to tell St. Peter to open the gates.†   (source)
  • Have enough plums tomorrow for St. Peter and everybody.†   (source)
  • But I thought Michelangelo designed St. Peter's.†   (source)
  • Gabriel: Troy ...St. Peter got your name in the book.†   (source)
  • And you know of one in St. Peter's Square?†   (source)
  • Langdon had never seen St. Peter's from the air.†   (source)
  • gabriel: Oh, I been chasing hellhounds and waiting on the time to tell St. Peter to open the gates.†   (source)
  • How long before the camerlegno told the crowd in St. Peter's Square they were in danger?†   (source)
  • As Langdon looked out at the wide-open spaces of St. Peter's Square, a familiar question nagged.†   (source)
  • From here the first one you hit is St. Peter's.†   (source)
  • Rome ....the caput mundi, where Caesar once ruled, where St. Peter was crucified.†   (source)
  • As Langdon watched through the windshield, he sensed a noose tightening around St. Peter's.†   (source)
  • That tile you're talking about in St. Peter's Square is called the West Ponente-the West Wind.†   (source)
  • She motioned frantically downward toward St. Peter's Square directly beneath them.†   (source)
  • But St. Peter's Square was designed by Bernini!†   (source)
  • Somewhere ahead was St. Peter's tomb-the Christian relic.†   (source)
  • The four Alpha Romeos slipped deftly into traffic surrounding St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • "But the line goes through St. Peter's Square," Vittoria added, looking over Langdon's shoulder.†   (source)
  • I know every corner of St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • Overhead the bells of St. Peter's began to toll.†   (source)
  • Most scholars believe it is through the secret door behind St. Peter's Throne.†   (source)
  • "What's wrong with St. Peter's?" one of the soldiers said.†   (source)
  • She glanced warily out the window at the crowd in St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • And besides, what does Saint Peter know of grass?†   (source)
  • The interior was small—tiny when compared with St. Peter's—with a short nave under a low vault.†   (source)
  • We shot around for a while and then the guys from St. Peter's showed up.†   (source)
  • My mother was warden of the vestry at St. Peter's Episcopal Church.†   (source)
  • Then, that winter, St. Peter's was rocked by Paul Breuninger's arrest.†   (source)
  • The St. Peter's team was called the Marauders.†   (source)
  • From the rooftop at dusk the sky's red hue outlined the dome of St. Peter's in the distance.†   (source)
  • Our bench was on its feet and so was the St. Peter's bench.†   (source)
  • It reminded me of the benches in the closed-in pews at St. Peter's.†   (source)
  • Nick made the second shot, too, but by then we were shaking hands with St. Peter's.†   (source)
  • St. Peter's started with a two-one-two zone defense.†   (source)
  • St. Peter's got the tap and right away their forwards came out to the top of the key.†   (source)
  • "We played St. Peter's and just beat them," he said.†   (source)
  • At halftime St. Peter's was ahead 32-22.†   (source)
  • St. Peter's was running the same lines that we had ran but they had a nice little twist to theirs.†   (source)
  • Maybe we all meet at St. Peter's Ognis-santi-who knows?" said Mama.†   (source)
  • It did not worry her that many years after announcing the eve of his final vows, Jose Arcadio was still saying that he was waiting to finish his studies in advanced theology in order to undertake those in diplomacy, because she understood how steep and paved with obstacles was the spiral stairway that led to the throne of Saint Peter.†   (source)
  • For Robert Langdon, the Capitol Rotunda—like St. Peter's Basilica—always had a way of taking him by surprise.†   (source)
  • He did move her at last to take one step further, and from that time on she began to send him the veins of leaves dried in dictionaries, the wings of butterflies, the feathers of magic birds, and for his birthday she gave him a square centimeter of St. Peter Clavier's habit, which in those days was being sold in secret at a price far beyond the reach of a schoolgirl her age.†   (source)
  • Dr. George Jenkins is a professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and Dr. Rameck Hunt is a professor and director of the outpatient clinic at St. Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey.†   (source)
  • Directly off the entrance was a seating area with a sofa and slipper chairs—lots of knickknacks, needlepoint cushions, nine or ten Old Master drawings: the flight into Egypt, Jacob and the Angel, circle of Rembrandt mostly though there was a tiny pen-and-brown-ink of Christ washing the feet of St. Peter that was so deftly done (the weary slump and drape of Christ's back; the blank, complicated sadness on St. Peter's face) it might have been from Rembrandt's own hand.†   (source)
  • The Renaissance humanists saw it as their cultural duty to restore Rome: first and foremost, to begin the construction of the great St. Peter's Church over the grave of Peter the Apostle.†   (source)
  • Langdon, as a child, had been terrified when he saw Michelangelo's diabolical "horned Moses"—the centerpiece of Rome's Basilica of St. Peter in Chains.†   (source)
  • Langdon knew the forefathers' "new Rome" had been renamed Washington early in her history, and yet vestiges of their original dream remained: the Tiber's waters still flowed into the Potomac; senators still convened beneath a replica of St. Peter's dome; and Vulcan and Minerva still watched over the Rotunda's long-extinguished flame.†   (source)
  • One morning St. Peter was looking at his book ...marking it up for the judgment...and he let me see your name.†   (source)
  • Did you know when I was in heaven ...every morning me and St. Peter would sit down by the gate and eat some big fat biscuits?†   (source)
  • We'd sit there and eat us them biscuits and then St. Peter would go off to sleep and tell me to wake him up when it's time to open the gates for the judgment.†   (source)
  • Langdon stood motionless at the Pope's bulletproof window and gazed down at the bustle of media trailers in St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • Every cardinal on the planet is here today, Langdon thought as the chopper passed over St. Peter's Basilica.†   (source)
  • Shouldn't we be back at St. Peter's?†   (source)
  • St. Peter's Square is in Vatican City.†   (source)
  • Sadly, though, despite St. Peter's Square being filled with press trucks, the vans looked to be mostly standard Italian and Euro press.†   (source)
  • Like a mountain parting the morning fog, the colossal dome rose out of the haze before them: St. Peter's Basilica.†   (source)
  • Langdon was starting to wonder if the Illuminati could really have been gutsy enough to position their second marker right outside St. Peter's Church.†   (source)
  • Directly ahead rose the rear of St. Peter's Basilica, a view, Langdon realized, most people never saw.†   (source)
  • He could not imagine her whipping out a weapon in St. Peter's Square and blowing away the kneecaps of some killer while the global media looked on.†   (source)
  • With a commanding view of St. Peter's Square, the palace houses both the Papal Apartments and the Office of the Pope.†   (source)
  • As he stared at the magnificent shrine before him, Langdon wondered what St. Peter would think if he were here now.†   (source)
  • A sprawling expanse of granite, St. Peter's Square was a staggering open space in the congestion of Rome, like a classical Central Park.†   (source)
  • A colossal chandelier hung overhead, beyond which a bank of arched windows offered a stunning panorama of the sun-drenched St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • They are singing in St. Peter's Square!†   (source)
  • BBC journalist Gunther Glick sat sweating in the BBC network van parked on the eastern edge of St. Peter's Square and cursed his assignment editor.†   (source)
  • The Office of the Swiss Guard is housed adjacent to Il Corpo di Vigilanza, directly northeast of St. Peter's Basilica.†   (source)
  • The springtime sun was setting behind St. Peter's Basilica, and a massive shadow spread, engulfing the piazza.†   (source)
  • The sprawling ceiling hovered overhead as though weightless-the 141-foot unsupported span larger even than the cupola at St. Peter's.†   (source)
  • The glow of St. Peter's Square shrank beneath them until it was an amorphous glowing ellipse radiating in a sea of city lights.†   (source)
  • After parking the cart on the wide lawn directly behind St. Peter's Basilica, the guard escorted Langdon and Vittoria up a stone escarpment to a marble plaza off the back of the basilica.†   (source)
  • T he Vatican's helipad, for reasons of safety and noise control, is located in the northwest tip of Vatican City, as far from St. Peter's Basilica as possible.†   (source)
  • Most maps show St. Peter's Square as part of Vatican City, but because it's outside the walled city, Roman officials for centuries have claimed it as part of Rome.†   (source)
  • The path intersected the Margherita Bridge, Via Cola di Riezo, and passed through Piazza del Risorgimento, hitting no churches at all until it dead-ended abruptly at the center of St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • It was the traditional seal of the Vatican-the sacred symbol of the Holy See or "holy seat" of government, the seat being literally the ancient throne of St. Peter.†   (source)
  • Not to mention, the greatest treasures were architectural-the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica, Michelangelo's famed spiral staircase leading to the Museo Vaticano-priceless testaments to man's creative genius.†   (source)
  • As they crossed the open expanse of St. Peter's Square, Langdon sensed Bernini's sprawling piazza having the exact effect the artist had been commissioned to create-that of "humbling all those who entered."†   (source)
  • St. Peter's Basilica.†   (source)
  • No, that's God," Saint Peter says.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I wonder what will happen if Sam and I are called to stand before Saint Peter on the same day, and my sins include everything from trifling with loose women to sleeping in church, and Sam just says, "Well, Pete, once I did fish on a Sunday."†   (source)
  • The coach stood up and looked at his clipboard as St. Peter's rotated again, but this time their center picked Trip deep and they got an easy bucket.†   (source)
  • "Regis, St. Peter's, Trinity, Country Day, Hunter, Harlem School of the Arts, Carver, and us," Mr. Goldstein read off the list.†   (source)
  • Tuesday after New Year's and I'm busting into school thinking about the game we were going to have that afternoon against St. Peter's.†   (source)
  • St. Peter's was trying the same things they did in the first half and we were in the same zone, but still standing around trying to figure out who they were playing where.†   (source)
  • (He flares up) It is my bounden duty to put away the Queen, and all the Popes back to St. Peter shall not come between me and my duty†   (source)
  • They were singing in St. Peter's Square ....The vision the world witnessed no one would ever forget.†   (source)
  • St. Peter's bones?" she asked, knowing full well that they were.†   (source)
  • In St. Peter's Square, Vittoria Vetra stared upward.†   (source)
  • Far below, in St. Peter's Square, reporter Gunther Glick watched in reflective silence.†   (source)
  • When the bells of St. Peter's began their deafening clamor, both Langdon and Vittoria jumped.†   (source)
  • Outside in St. Peter's Square and around the globe ....a stunned world knelt with them.†   (source)
  • Let them exit into St. Peter's Square and stand side by side with the rest of the world.†   (source)
  • Cardinal Lamasse was murdered in St. Peter's Square ten minutes ago.†   (source)
  • Everyone who came to St. Peter's knew what was in the golden casket.†   (source)
  • The soldier pointed to St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • Everyone was pointing behind him, toward the front of St. Peter's Basilica.†   (source)
  • The madness came quickly, screaming in his ears, until he awoke before St. Peter's tomb.†   (source)
  • Then a white light from the direction of St. Peter's blinded them.†   (source)
  • It was 11:39 P.M. when Langdon stepped with the others from St. Peter's Basilica.†   (source)
  • Trying to save that cardinal in St. Peter's Square?†   (source)
  • Only a hundred yards away, inside the thick walls of St. Peter's Basilica, the world was serene.†   (source)
  • Flashlights were no match for the voluminous blackness of St. Peter's Basilica.†   (source)
  • The entire Catholic faith had been built, quite literally, upon St. Peter.†   (source)
  • Langdon looked out at St. Peter's Square a moment.†   (source)
  • The image behind her was a night shot of St. Peter's Basilica with all its lights blazing.†   (source)
  • The camerlegno staggered now through the darkness of St. Peter's Basilica.†   (source)
  • An early rainstorm had washed the crowds from St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • With a final joyous exultation, the camerlegno turned and dashed back into St. Peter's Basilica.†   (source)
  • Gunther Glick watched from the shadows of the pillars surrounding St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • For the second time that evening, the College of Cardinals flooded onto St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • To his left, the chaotic media lights surrounding St. Peter's.†   (source)
  • Robert Langdon stood nearby staring out at St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • The Holy Vatican Grottoes are located beneath the main floor of St. Peter's Basilica.†   (source)
  • He and Vittoria had talked about it last night as they stole away from St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • War had broken out in St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • Was the antimatter really going to appear on St. Peter's"Look!†   (source)
  • I couldn't get through the traffic in St. Peter's, so I'm shooting from here.†   (source)
  • Placing the antimatter on St. Peter's tomb seemed painfully obvious now.†   (source)
  • To her shock, much of St. Peter's Square was still packed with people!†   (source)
  • The silence of the vision over St. Peter's Square sang louder than any chorus of angels.†   (source)
  • The camerlegno lay curled in a ball on the dirt floor in front of St. Peter's tomb.†   (source)
  • Then, cruelly, the bells of St. Peter's began to toll.†   (source)
  • The main aisle of St. Peter's Basilica, Lieutenant Chartrand had once figured out, was longer than an Olympic soccer field.†   (source)
  • Pedestrians streamed toward them while a new batch of media personnel unloaded vans and staked their claim in St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • In addition, BBC photo archives had just given her a positive ID on the victim in St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • Somewhere down here was the sacred necropolis ....burial place of St. Peter and countless other early Christians.†   (source)
  • Langdon had heard Vatican scholars claim that St. Peter's tomb was near the top of Vatican Hill, and he had always wondered how they knew.†   (source)
  • Mortati was about to demand a full-scale search of Vatican City when a roar of jubilation erupted outside in St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • Jacobus had seen Mr. Langdon, only minutes ago, getting into a helicopter in St. Peter's Square and flying miles up into the air.†   (source)
  • The Chigi Chapel ....St. Peter's ....here ....Seeing them all laid out before him now, Langdon noted an oddity in their locations.†   (source)
  • Vittoria had the uneasy feeling they were too late as they watched the mammoth machine slow to a stop over St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • The guidebooks label this as St. Peter's tomb, but his true grave is two stories beneath us, buried in the earth.†   (source)
  • In St. Peter's Square, the Swiss Guard pilot sat in the cockpit of the parked Vatican helicopter and rubbed his temples.†   (source)
  • Again he scanned the sprawling expanse of granite beneath his feet-St. Peter's Square-an open desert surrounded by Swiss Guard.†   (source)
  • He raised his eyes to the dome of St. Peter's, three quarters of a mile away, naked under the glare of hundreds of press lights.†   (source)
  • The castle seemed to rise as he advanced, an unscalable peak, more intimidating to him even than St. Peter's.†   (source)
  • We must remember that the cardinals spent much of today in the Vatican museums and St. Peter's Basilica, enjoying those areas without the crowds.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, in St. Peter's Square, the wall of Swiss Guards yelled orders and fanned outward, trying to push the crowds back to a safer distance.†   (source)
  • Directly beneath them, thousands of feet straight down, glowed the media lights in St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • The guard traced a line with his finger from St. Peter's Square across the Tiber River and up into the heart of old Rome.†   (source)
  • St. Peter's tomb was not what had people falling to their knees in spontaneous prayer and thanksgiving.†   (source)
  • They are singing in St. Peter's Square!†   (source)
  • Camerlegno Carlo Ventresca stood on the rooftop terrace of St. Peter's Basilica and looked down over the multitudes of people staring up at him.†   (source)
  • The sound of St. Peter's Square faded behind them now, and Langdon sensed they had passed through the outer wall of Vatican City.†   (source)
  • You just showed—" The shot that filled the screen was of a couple in St. Peter's Square, moving through the crowd.†   (source)
  • Her video camera felt like an anchor as she lumbered across St. Peter's Square, pushing through the gathering crowd.†   (source)
  • No doubt Captain Rocher had keys to everything-the Pope's chambers, Il Passetto, the Necropolis, St. Peter's tomb, all of it.†   (source)
  • Langdon had imagined the killer escorting his last victim across the piazza on foot, like he had at St. Peter's, giving Langdon an open shot.†   (source)
  • Robert Langdon had little doubt that the chaos and hysteria coursing through St. Peter's Square at this very instant exceeded anything Vatican Hill had ever witnessed.†   (source)
  • Somewhere around the obelisk, boldly positioned outside the largest church in the world, was the second altar of science-Bernini's West Ponente-an elliptical block in St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • As the Swiss Guard helped him down the Royal Staircase toward the Sistine Chapel, the camerlegno heard singing in St. Peter's Square and he knew that mountains had been moved.†   (source)
  • He had run out, staggering blindly through the hallways, vomiting, tearing at his own skin, until he found himself bloody and alone, lying on the cold earthen floor before St. Peter's tomb.†   (source)
  • The roar that went up from the crowd in St. Peter's Square was like none the camerlegno had ever heard-crying, screaming, chanting, praying ....a mix of veneration and terror.†   (source)
  • A new clamor arose from the crowd, and the pilot looked over to see a line of cardinals processing solemnly out of the Vatican onto St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • The faces in St. Peter's Square, one by one, averted their eyes from the darkening sky and turned downward, each person in his or her own private moment of wonder.†   (source)
  • Incredibly, though, Mortati never suspected the extent to which his faith was about to be tested ....The silence of St. Peter's Square broke with a ripple at first.†   (source)
  • He could have placed the antimatter on St. Peter's tomb-a highly restricted locale-and then commanded his guards not to waste time searching the Vatican's restricted areas.†   (source)
  • Although originally thought to have perished in the antimatter blast, we now have reports that Langdon was spotted in St. Peter's Square after the explosion.†   (source)
  • Not only had he accepted the camerlegno's divine revelation of the antimatter's location, but he was lobbying for the destruction of St. Peter's Basilica-one of the greatest architectural feats on earth ....as well as all of the art inside.†   (source)
  • He wondered if it was his body or just his spirit that had floated down from heaven toward the soft, darkened expanse of the Vatican City Gardens ....alighting like a silent angel on the deserted lawns, his black parachute shrouded from the madness by the towering shadow of St. Peter's Basilica.†   (source)
  • As they moved away from the glowing recession into the darkness again, she thought of the stories she'd heard of pilgrims traveling thousands of miles to look at that golden box, thinking they were in the presence of St. Peter.†   (source)
  • The camerlegno erupted through the doors of St. Peter's Basilica at exactly 11:56 P.M. He staggered into the dazzling glare of the world spotlight, carrying the antimatter before him like some sort of numinous offering.†   (source)
  • However, after assessing the situation, I am confident the antimatter canister is located in one of our white zones-those Vatican sectors accessible to public tours-the museums and St. Peter's Basilica, for example.†   (source)
  • It was St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • A good colour, certainly; something like the colonnade of St. Peter's.†   (source)
  • It must be uh recess in heben if St. Peter is lettin' his angels out lak dis.†   (source)
  • Are you going to improve upon St. Peter's?†   (source)
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