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  • She was only one of many women who did full duty through the darkest days the nation ever knew -- saints in homespun, martyrs uncanonised save in the hearts of the stricken.

    Ailsa Paige 1899

  • It would have been of interest to trace the first stages in the unauthorised cult of one as yet uncanonised.

    The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary Robert Hugh Benson 1892

  • Sano di Pietro shows us a heartless practical joke played by these two very naughty saints, both medical men, who should be uncanonised immediately.

    The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868

  • I were likely to be dashed to pieces together and mix our uncanonised bones.

    The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850

  • These allegations may be apocryphal, nonetheless Mr Gormley's personal ambiance somehow lacks the robust vigor of say General Mc Arthur; Minister Gormley's personna is more reminiscent St Francis of Assisi, albeit uncanonised and without consummated sainthood. - maybe the sandles is the only common denominator.

    Indymedia Ireland donkylemore 2010

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