"Unsaintly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... entirely an invention of Diana's did not relieve the tenseness of the situation; she had talked about him so often that she seemed to have conjured him up. They could almost see his white habit gliding along the corridor, and his unsaintly eyes gleaming from under his cowl. They began to wish he had behaved better during his lifetime, or at any rate that he had not chosen to revisit the ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... of Christian legend with this somewhat unsaintly personage. Secular legend, for it is probably little more, has contented itself with tracing his posterity, several families of Germany deriving their descent from him, while he is held to have been the ancestor of the imperial house of the Othos. Some ...
— Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality, German • Charles Morris |
