Other saints were turned, like naughty children, with their faces to the wall.
'Civil men,' says Thomas Goodwin, 'are this world's saints.' And poor Pliable was one of them.
I imagine that when he died he was a broken-down man--and the great saints haven't been strong."
"Saints alive, man, do you think I would have you tumbling in here over each other's heels if she were?"
"Mother of God," the wanderer said, "I am but a common king, Nor will I ask what saints may ask, To see a secret thing.
For Colan was hung with raiment Tattered like autumn leaves, And his men were all as thin as saints, And all as poor as thieves.
On the way home she confided to her cousins a method of securing revenge upon the agent for selling them the three copies of the "Lives of the Saints."
"I should like my children to be saints rather than great noblemen," said Madame de Gondi when she presented the boys to their tutor, but the prospect seemed remote enough.