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“The Baron St. Antonio be praised,” said the friar,
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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“Heaven will protect its own, young man,” said the friar,
Quentin Durward 2008
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A few months before, at the commencement of the rebellion, this same Austin friar,
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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Until this time Cranmer remained steadfast; but about the new year, he displayed signs of wavering, and was said to have been influenced by the arguments of a Spanish friar,
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There the Signoria tortured them, with another friar,
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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Hold thy hand, good fellow, said the curtal friar,
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In his fear of any general contradiction to communism which should be open to dispute, and in his ever-constant memory of his own religious life as a Dominican friar,
Mediaeval Socialism Bede Jarrett 1907
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As to your other question, I am the Capuchin friar,
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Lorenzo's sons failed to maintain the influence over the people of Florence which their father had enjoyed; and the leadership of the city fell into the hands of the Dominican friar,
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe James Harvey Robinson 1899
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They did bestir themselves in defence of their favourite preachers -- Willock, Harlaw, Methuen; a ci-devant friar,
John Knox and the Reformation Andrew Lang 1878
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