"Saint george" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thoughts were more than I may write, but it seems to me that they were as those of Saint George when he rode out to slay the dragon in the old ...
— A Thane of Wessex • Charles W. Whistler
... in dear, blessed Holland, life was a different thing. It was like heaven there, and when I looked at your grace I always felt as if I saw before me Saint George himself, so bold, spirited, and happy ...
— The Youth of the Great Elector • L. Muhlbach
... more morning he gets out of bed, elevates his own private emotion into a transfiguration—into a great national stained-glass window for the Monroe Doctrine, sees twenty generations like attendant angels hovering around him—around Henry Cabot Lodge in the Window, like Saint George with the dragon, blessing him for saving Columbia from being crunched in the wandering fire-breathing jaws of a ...
— The Ghost in the White House • Gerald Stanley Lee
... now, there is the boy Richard of Gloucester, who comes not up to thy shoulder, and by dint of custom each day can wield mace or axe with as much ease as a jester doth his lathesword. Ah, trust me, Marmaduke, the York House is a princely one; and if we must have a king, we barons, by stout Saint George, let no meaner race ever furnish our lieges. But to thyself, Marmaduke—what are thy views and ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... George [i.e., Saint George]: In comes I, King George, That man of courage bold, With my broad sword and sphere [spear] I have won ten tons of gold. I fought the fiery Dragon And brought it to great slaughter, And by that means I wish to win ...
— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas
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