All 24 Uses of
martyr
in
Angela's Ashes
- Because he loved the motherland, Because he loved the green He goes to meet a martyr's fate With proud and joyous mien; True to the last, oh! true to the last He treads the upward way; Young Roddy McCorley goes to die On the bridge at Toome today.†
Chpt 1
- And she has pictures of the Virgin Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus all over the shop, and she's forever on her knees abroad in St. Joseph's chapel clackin' her rosary beads an' breathing like a virgin martyr, the oul' bitch.†
Chpt 2
- It's the Latin the martyrs prayed in when the barbarians pulled out their nails and cut their skin off inch by inch.†
Chpt 4
- Limbo is packed with little black babies flying around and crying for their mothers because they'll never be admitted to the ineffable presence of Our Lord and the glorious company of saints, martyrs, virgins.†
Chpt 4
- He paces back and forth, waves his stick, tells us we must never forget that the moment the Holy Communion is placed on our tongues we become members of that most glorious congregation, the One, Holy, Roman, Catholic and Apostolic Church, that for two thousand years men, women and children have died for the Faith, that the Irish have nothing to be ashamed of in the martyr department.†
Chpt 4
- Haven't we provided martyrs galore?†
Chpt 4
- He says that, perhaps, in this class there is a future priest or a martyr for the Faith,
Chpt 4 *martyr = someone who suffers for the sake of principle -- especially someone killed for refusing to renounce their religion
- Mam says, I'm a martyr for the fags and so is your father.†
Chpt 5
- Priests and masters tell us Confirmation means you're a true soldier of the Church and that entitles you to die and be a martyr in case we're invaded by Protestants or Mahommedans or any other class of a heathen.†
Chpt 8
- There are stories about virgins, martyrs, virgin martyrs and they're worse than any horror film at the Lyric Cinema.†
Chpt 13
- There are stories about virgins, martyrs, virgin martyrs and they're worse than any horror film at the Lyric Cinema.†
Chpt 13
- All these virgin martyrs are told by Roman judges they have to give up their faith and accept the Roman gods but they say, Nay, and the judges have them tortured and killed.†
Chpt 13
- Then there's St. Wilgefortis, virgin martyr, July twentieth.†
Chpt 14
- Her mother had nine children, all at the same time, four sets of twins and Wilgefortis the odd one, all winding up martyrs for the faith.†
Chpt 14
- The priests never tell us about virgin martyrs like St. Agatha, February fifth.†
Chpt 14
- February is a powerful month for virgin martyrs.†
Chpt 14
- Sicilian pagans ordered Agatha to give up her faith in Jesus and like all the virgin martyrs she said, Nay.†
Chpt 14
- Virgin martyrs always died singing hymns and giving praise not minding one bit if lions tore big chunks from their sides and gobbled them on the spot.†
Chpt 14
- How is it the priests never told us about St. Ursula and her eleven thousand maiden martyrs, October twenty-first?†
Chpt 14
- Why did virgin martyrs have to be so stubborn?†
Chpt 14
- Still, I'm ready to spend my life in this library reading about virgins and virgin martyrs till I get into trouble with Miss O'Riordan over a book someone left on the table.†
Chpt 14
- You could stand there for an hour telling them all you've read about Brigid and Wilgefortis and Agatha and Ursula and the maiden martyrs but all they think about is one word on one page of Lin Yitang.†
Chpt 14
- …grass is dry, and I'm worn out begging for chips and putting up with librarians who get into a state over turgid and I'm looking at the clouds drifting above the monument and drifting off myself all turgid till I'm having a dream about virgin martyrs in bathing suits in the News of the World pelting Chinese writers with sheeps' bladders and I wake up in a state of excitement with something hot and sticky pumping out of me oh God my male organ of copulation sticking out a mile people in…†
Chpt 14
- She suffered like the martyrs in olden times and God knows that's penance enough.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(martyr) someone who dies or suffers to uphold principles -- especially someone killed for refusing to renounce their religion, or someone who commits a suicide death in the name of their religion
or:
someone who suffers a great deal
or (as a verb):
to kill someone or make them suffer in a manner that many would view as unjust