"Sabbatic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her life were spent with her nephew the great Indian missionary the Rev. John P. Williamson D.D. at Greenwood, South Dakota. There at noon of March 24, 1895, the light of eternity dawned upon her and she entered into that sabbatic rest, which remains for the people of God. Such is the story of Aunt Jane, modest and unassuming—a real heroine, who travelled sixteen hundred miles all the way on horseback and spent several months that she might rescue two poor colored persons whom she had ...
— Among the Sioux - A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas • R. J. Creswell
... this curate chap, and giving his congregation red-hot pap for their Sabbatic food. At least, that's curable; ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray
... with the wonderful, long throat, in the chapel on the cool north side of the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore at Bergamo—monuments which abound in the churches of Rome, inexhaustible in suggestions of repose, of a subdued Sabbatic joy, a kind of sacred grace and refinement:—and they unite these elements of tranquillity, of repose, to that intense and individual expression by a system of conventionalism as skilful and subtle as that of the Greeks, subduing ...
— The Renaissance - Studies in Art and Poetry • Walter Pater |
