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No St. Crispin speeches were necessary here, for this Band of Brothers knew what need not be stated: They were saving Europe from enslavement.
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“Why, I should have thought the gentle craft, as it is called, of St. Crispin would have suited him best; and that, if the son of some great Mac or O was to become an artisan, it could only be in the craft where princes set him the example.”
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Attribute of St. Crispin, patron saint of shoemakers and leather workers.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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Attribute of St. Crispin, patron saint of shoemakers and leather workers.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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In Crispinus, both Shakspere's curly hair and the offence of application, plagiarism, or literary theft, with which he is charged by his antagonist, are manifestly marked; St. Crispin being noted among the saints for his filching habits.
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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That military executions were ordered against all protestant shoemakers who should refuse to contribute to the masses of St. Crispin.
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Behind the pulpit is the chapel of St. Crispin, the patron of shoemakers, containing curious groups.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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-- Yes; the author of Gebir and Gebirus; think of that, St. Crispin and Crispanus!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various
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He addressed the representative of St. Crispin in a musical voice, but I then formed an opinion of my future master, that he would be a little conceited and arrogant at times, and this has proved correct.
Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches David Drummond Bone
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The public excitement was such that an unusual number of working-men were keeping their St. Crispin.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various
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