Meanings of saintlike in anglès

The idea of the saintlike, long-suffering patient is a big romantic fiction.

Had the pastors prayed, all saintlike as they seemed, it had been blasphemy.

Noel, who had achieved the most saintlike behaviour during the past week, went also.

We sometimes see a wicked man suddenly become saintlike.

She was looking sweet and saintlike, and she had a plate of sandwiches in her hand.

And yet, what a joy and what a saintlike attitude she manifested all through her life.

So he grows more saintlike every day, and has wrought a wondrous change in the king himself.

At the foot of the bed sat a silver-haired woman with saintlike face uplifted in resignation and aspiration.

To see the elder lady embrace her friend as they parted was something holy- asortof saintlike salutation.

His face glowed with a light that seemed saintlike, and a grand look of ineffable love and pity came to his eyes.

There, in that supernatural land, he appears as a fair-haired and saintlike young man-fair hair and goodness always go together on the stage.

She had a white, demure, saintlike face, smooth black hair, and lips so crimson and full that they seemed to be bursting with blood.

The rain falling through sunshine made a silver glory in the air in which he walked saintlike, his hoary locks spangled with the shining baptism.

He is one of the few leaders anywhere, to whom friends and enemies apply such adjectives as "saintlike" and "shrewd" with equal justice.

An awful picture, truly, but one which is to me irradiated with the love-light which shone in the eyes of "Em's serious, sweet, saintlike face."

"I'm sure I should know," he protested, with an involuntary glance at Marie, so saintlike and virginal in her meekly fichued dress.