"Interceder" Quotes from Famous Books
... his native country, but to devote himself to prayer and a holy life, placing all his hopes in the blessed expectation of meeting that dear woman again in heaven, where, he was convinced, she was now a saint and an interceder for him. He said he had exchanged a watch with the king of that country, whom he described to be a very just and good man, for a gun, some powder, shot, and ball, with which he sometimes provided ... — The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great • Henry Fielding |