"Celestinian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... decreed that Euphrosyne should have the sole charge of her mocking-bird. Sister Angelique, who made the prettiest artificial flowers in the world, invited her to her apartment at all reasonable hours, when she might have a curiosity to see to learn the process. Sister Celestine had invented a new kind of comfit which she begged Euphrosyne to try, leaving a paper of sweetmeats on her table for that purpose. Old Raphael had gained leave to clear a parterre in the garden which was to be wholly hers, ...
— The Hour and the Man - An Historical Romance • Harriet Martineau
... the unroofed episcopal palace of Viterbo." There were four or five popes elected subsequently to this, however, without conclaves; but from the death of Boniface VIII. in 1303 the series of conclaves has been unbroken. Celestine V., who abdicated in 1294, drew up the rules which, confirmed by his successor, Boniface VIII., and by many subsequent popes from time to time down to the last century, still regulate the assembling and holding of the conclave, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, April 1875, Vol. XV., No. 88 • Various
... down in an easy-chair, and striking a match, lighted a cigarette. "That, Celestine," he said in French, "is what in English we ...
— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford |
