saint and martyr

Example Sentences

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All photograph: David Levene To some, he is verging on a saint and martyr, singlehandedly standing against the forces of Chinese political repression.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2013

Tom à Becket had I sworn I was, that saint and martyr hallowed, I doubt not just as readily the bait they would have swallowed.

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison

This theory, like the shallow sentimentalism which made an innocent saint and martyr of Mary Stuart, has never recovered from the crushing onslaught of Froude.

From The Life of Froude by Paul, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield)

It was better that Enid should think of her father as a saint and martyr, than as a profligate whose hand no honest man or woman would care to hold.

From A Life Sentence A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

What will Mademoiselle say?—she that has held up the faith of every one of us, like a little saint and martyr as she is! 

From A Modern Telemachus by Yonge, Charlotte Mary