In Greece, he is the patron saint of sailors; in France he was the patron of lawyers, and in Belgium the patron of children and travelers.
The patron came down a path paved with cobblestones .
That breeds an unhealthy client-patron dependency at every level.
St David is the patron saint of Wales.
These traits made Albert Einstein the patron saint of distracted school kids everywhere.
She was also the patron goddess of Athens who built the Parthenon in her honor.
Restaurant patron: “Gimme the chocolate milk shake and the cheeseburger deluxe.”
“No smoking” signs covered the walls but every other patron was puffing on a cigarette.
She made sure that she brought a case of the local beer and a bottle of patron tequila.
Instead of the pagan god Lupercus, the Church looked for a suitable patron saint2 of love to take his place.
I don't want to go, my love. I will remain quietly, accompany you quietly, be your patron saint, and wait for your loved ones.
So it remained through the early decades of the Kingdom of Italy when patron-client relations underlaid a facade of parliamentary liberalism.
Smith’s early patron was Henry Home, a philosopher and lawyer who sponsored the Edinburgh lectures that launched Smith’s career in 1748 when he was just 25.
她确定自己带来了一箱子本地啤酒和一瓶patron龙舌兰酒。
Shamed Ones would often pray to their patron Yun-Shuno, who was in legend was able to approach the Modeler and beseech her to ameliorate the lives of the more worthy Shamed Ones.
ZioF. T., the patron saint of giggling, naughty children who toboggan downstaircases, throw bread balls at restaurants and even put toddler cousins inlarge salad bowls and spin them across floors.
A few days later, my daughter came to visit me at S. Stefano degli Innocenti (that's the name of the asylum; Santo Stefano is the patron saint of thieves and liars, also bakers).
When he realized what I was talking about, that there were twinkle-bells of sunshine in the room, he smiled like a weather man, like an ecstatic patron of recurrent light, and repeated the news to Daisy. "What do you think of that? It's stopped raining."
