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More "St. andrew's cross" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... larger Diamond that has been "reset." That is to say, re-ground: the diagonal marks like a St. Andrew's Cross show the grinding down of the old facets by which the new cutting edge has been produced. Magnified ...
— Stained Glass Work - A text-book for students and workers in glass • C. W. Whall
... of Peter. He preached the gospel to many Asiatic nations; but on his arrival at Edessa, he was taken and crucified on a cross, the two ends of which were fixed transversely in the ground. Hence the derivation of the term, St. Andrew's Cross. ...
— Fox's Book of Martyrs - Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant - Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs • John Fox
... resurrection and immortality, 642-u. Acacia, made into the "crown of thorns", 82-m. Acacia, origin of the idea of the sprig of, 376-l. Acacia, the thorny tamarisk, grew around Osiris, 82-m. Acacia, type of immortality, 82-m. Achaius, King of the Scots, saw the St. Andrew's Cross the night before a battle, 801-l. Achilles fights with Scamander, 499-m. Acmon's death lamented by the Scythians, 594-l. Acorn planted before the Norman conquest grows into importance, 317-l. Achronically; when Stars rise or set in opposition to ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike
... up to his men's mercy town and townsmen, great and small, of every rank and condition, men and women, and that he proposed to drive the plough over the site of the city. The inhabitants mostly believed the tale; so they set the St. Andrew's cross on their coats, in token that they were of the party of the Burgundians. Their hatred was doubled, and their fears with it, when they learned that Brother Richard and the Maid Jeanne were at the head of King Charles' army. They knew nothing ...
— The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche - 1909 • Anatole France
... having asked him in Latin, "Ubi censebaris quando mane oriebaris?" He replied, "Between the seraphim." They said to him, "Pro signo exhibe nobis patibulum fratris Cephae;" the devil extended his arms in the form of a St. Andrew's cross. They said to him, "Applica carpum carpo;" he did so, placing the wrist of one hand over the other; then, "Admove tarsum tarso et metatarsum metatarso;" he crossed his feet and raised them one upon the ...
— The Phantom World - or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. • Augustin Calmet
... their attitudes and movements into scientific form and symmetry. Kelly raised his cudgel, and placed it transversely in the air, between himself and his opponent; Grimes instantly placed his against it—both weapons thus forming a St. Andrew's cross—whilst the men themselves stood foot to foot, calm and collected. Nothing could be finer than their proportions, nor superior to their respective attitudes; their broad chests were in a line; their thick, well-set necks laid a little ...
— The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim • William Carleton
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