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saints

noun as in holy person

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These women interred the bodies of saints on their own properties and occasionally managed to influence papal politics.

And saints are a pretty svelte bunch, what with all the fasting and suffering.

Or gazing towards the Bible stories, saints and martyrs depicted in the arched stained glass windows.

And then, if Pope Francis is still with us, we may well see the leftist saints come marching in.

White evangelicals and Latter-Day Saints are uniformly in the GOP camp.

With every allusion that Ramona made to the saints' statues, Alessandro's desire to procure one for her deepened.

He has told me that their society produced on him the effect of the cool hands of saints against his cheek.

She fixed her imploring eyes on the Virgin's face and on the saints; but all seemed to her to wear a forbidding look.

He threw himself on his knees, begging us, in the name of God and all the saints, to spare his life.

He made him like the saints in glory, and magnified him in the fear of his enemies, and with his words he made prodigies to cease.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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