1. The founder of the City of the Saints could not escape from the taste for symmetry which distinguishes the Anglo-Saxons.
2. The hour, the summer season, the solitary place, the voice and skill of the singer, all contributed to the wonder and delight of the two listeners, who remained still waiting to hear something more finding, however, that the silence continued some little time, they resolved to go in search of the musician who sang with so fine a voice but just as they were about to do so they were checked by the same voice, which once more fell upon their ears, singing this SONNET When heavenward, holy Friendship, thou didst go Soaring to seek thy home beyond the sky, And take thy seat among the saints on high, It was thy will to leave on earth below Thy semblance, and upon it to bestow Thy veil, wherewith at times hypocrisy, Parading in thy shape, deceives the eye, And makes its vileness bright as virtue show.
3. I called my waiting-maid to me, that there might be a witness on earth besides those in Heaven, and again Don Fernando renewed and repeated his oaths, invoked as witnesses fresh saints in addition to the former ones, called down upon himself a thousand curses hereafter should he fail to keep his promise, shed more tears, redoubled his sighs and pressed me closer in his arms, from which he had never allowed me to escape and so I was left by my maid, and ceased to be one, and he became a traitor and a perjured man.
4. They believed in archangels, saints and the whole works.
5. I measured it on a map it just beats All Saints at Driffield, though not by much.
6. Frills of hunter green tickled the air around her, surrounded her head like so many dead saints, before spreading down to corset her waist.
7. You, angels, never stop talking about saving the souls of the saints, doing your best to protect them, so on and so forth.
8. Sister Aimee claimed she had recently prayed for a revived spirit and been answered by an astonishing vision of the coming rapture and of the heavenly choir and orchestra of angels descending to accompany the saints in their journey home.
9. The publisher kept a stoic expression while Tom tried to recall to life the mission and the little boy who witnessed the saints heave, thrash, and make eerie harmonies out of howls, pleas, and incantations in a bedlam of sounds they called tongues.
10. While the saints considered Christ their savior, his personal savior was Frank Gaines.