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Speak to a saint like a saint, a devil like a devil
Hable con un santo como un santo, un diablo como un diablo
Not unless each mind was a saint like Uncle Jack was.
No a menos que cada mente sea un santo como lo fue el tío Jack.
To live with a saint is not difficult, for a saint makes no comparisons, but saint-like aspiration presents problems.
Vivir con un santo no es difícil, porque el santo no hace comparaciones, pero aspirar a la santidad presenta problemas.
But when saints like Zapparoni began to appear, the earth itself was threatened.
Pero desde que existían santos como Zapparoni, la Tierra se encontraba amenazada.
“Did you want to be a saint like her when you were a boy?”
¿Usted quería ser un santo como ella, muchacho?
If you weren’t dating a saint like Silas Nash, that could go very wrong.
«Si mi novio no fuera casi un santo, como Silas Nash, esas podrían estar muy erradas».
A saint like woman, she made up for most of the unhappiness his children had suffered in growing.
Aquella santa mujer recompensaba a los hijos de buena parte de lo que habían sufrido en su infancia.
Anyway, one of the great things about being Catholic is you get to have saints, like St.
Total, que una de las cosas buenas de ser católico es tener a tu disposición un santo como san Judas Tadeo.
and so, per-and, discerning the scarlet letter on her breast, would scamper chance, the torture of her daily shame would at length purge off with a strange contagious fear. her soul, and work out another purity than that which she had Lonely as was Hester's situation, and without a friend on lost: more saint-like, because the result of martyrdom.
and so, perchance, the torture of her daily shame would at length purge her soul, and work out another purity than that which she had lost: more saint-like, because the result of martyrdom.
Now came his inmost soul, and the undissembled expression of it in his the dead friends of his youth, and his white-bearded father, aspect. Had he once found power to smile, and wear a face of with a saint-like frown, and his mother turning her face away gaiety, there would have been no such man!
Now came the dead friends of his youth, and his white-bearded father, with a saint-like frown, and his mother turning her face away as she passed by Ghost of a mother—thinnest fantasy of a mother—methinks she might yet have thrown a pitying glance towards her son!
And now surrounded, like the saint-like per-though his mind had made an involuntary effort to relieve it-sonage of olden times, with a radiant halo, that glorified him self by a kind of lurid playfulness. amid this gloomy night of sin—as if the departed Governor Shortly afterwards, the like grisly sense of the humorous had left him an inheritance of his glory, or as if he had caught again stole in among the solemn phantoms of his thought. He upon himself the distant shine of the celestial city, while look-felt his limbs growing stiff with the unaccustomed chilliness ing thitherward to see the triumphant pilgrim pass within its of the night, and doubted whether he should be able to de-gates—now, in short, good Father Wilson was moving home-scend the steps of the scaffold.
And now surrounded, like the saint-like personage of olden times, with a radiant halo, that glorified him amid this gloomy night of sin—as if the departed Governor had left him an inheritance of his glory, or as if he had caught upon himself the distant shine of the celestial city, while looking thitherward to see the triumphant pilgrim pass within its gates—now, in short, good Father Wilson was moving homeward, aiding his footsteps with a lighted lantern!
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