saint and martyr
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All photograph: David Levene To some, he is verging on a saint and martyr, singlehandedly standing against the forces of Chinese political repression.
From The Guardian • May 30, 2013
Dear saint and martyr, she is safe from all misreading at last.
From The Far Horizon by Malet, Lucas
The higher religion, too, found good soil here; for Baalbek gave the world many a saint and martyr along with its harlots and poets and philosophers.
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
The general council of Chalcedon declared him a saint and martyr, and paid great honors to his memory, in 451.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban
It made Bartley smile to hear his wife talking of Halleck with his mother and sisters, and falling quite into the family way of regarding him as if he were somehow a saint and martyr.
From A Modern Instance by Howells, William Dean
