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In popular speech it is also called "greal" because it is pleasant
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Hurst makes Kennedy's early parliamentary career sound a greal more interesting that it actually was - I say that as a compliment.
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Robert de Boron was aware of thesan greal/sang real pun, although he intended it as a reference to “real or true blood,” the blood of Christ preserved in it.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Instead of “san greal”—holy grail—it should have been “sang réal”—blood royal.35Butwhose bloodline was it?
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Robert de Boron was aware of thesan greal/sang real pun, although he intended it as a reference to “real or true blood,” the blood of Christ preserved in it.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Robert de Boron was aware of thesan greal/sang real pun, although he intended it as a reference to “real or true blood,” the blood of Christ preserved in it.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Instead of “san greal”—holy grail—it should have been “sang réal”—blood royal.35Butwhose bloodline was it?
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Instead of “san greal”—holy grail—it should have been “sang réal”—blood royal.35Butwhose bloodline was it?
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Which fart the king kept religiously, like another sanc-greal, and performed a world of wonderful cures with it in many dangerous diseases, letting loose and distributing to the patient only as much of it as might frame a virginal fart; which is, if you must know, what our sanctimonials, alias nuns, in their dialect call ringing backwards.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Pantagruel asking to what purpose and curative indication he had voided so much mustard on the earth, the queen replied that mustard was their sanc-greal and celestial balsam, of which, laying but a little in the wounds of the fallen Chitterlings, in a very short time the wounded were healed and the dead restored to life.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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