saintly
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No saintly voice told me what to do next.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Everyone at Celtic is reluctant to compare any mere mortal to Henrik Larsson, a saintly figure of the club's past.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
With saintly calm, the too-good-for-him Dr. Barrett packs her things and returns to her peaceful castle.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
Or as close to saintly as anything involving tar sands can get.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025
Tom Chamberlain went on sleeping, mouth open, saintly young, at peace.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
They care about telling themselves that their profession is saintlier than it is, and they’re superior to the reformed liar who wants to work with them.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2014
Or higher, holier, saintlier when, as now, All nature sacerdotal seems, and thou.
From Poems by Francis Thompson
Yea, verily am I! a follower of the saintly Ludovick Muggleton, and of the saintlier John Reeve, of whom Ludovick is but the mouthpiece, even as Aaron was of Moses.
From Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia by Mary Johnston
You will read for yourself, by and by, many others: stories of older Saints, and perhaps of brighter Saints, or it may be even of saintlier Saints than these.
From A Book of Quaker Saints by L. V. (Lucy Violet) Hodgkin
Nothing could be whiter; nothing could be purer; nothing could be saintlier of aspect.
From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain
Yet, before turning the relic over to the police, Brand said he was on his saintliest behavior.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2022
Moreover, in all but the saintliest circles, forgiveness may be a luxury that depends upon a certain surrounding stability.
From Time Magazine Archive
That woman was the saintliest thing that ever breathed.
From The Crux by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Best loved and saintliest of our singing train, Earth's noblest tributes to thy name belong.
From Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier by Margaret Spraque Carhart
The Stoic phase was a useful stage on the road of convalescence, and the majestic words of Epictetus more helpful to a manlier bearing than the confessions of the saintliest souls.
From Apologia Diffidentis by O. M. (Ormonde Maddock) Dalton
