Patron saint of soldiers and athletes

Usage examples of sebastian.

He woke in the late evening, looking as well as Sebastian had ever seen him, to greet the returning Mohammed and the dozen tall Angoni tribesmen who accompanied him.

Sebastian handed Antonio a number of pages that were affixed with gold seals and colored ribbons.

At first Don Sebastian did not show himself in Asuncion, but sent out messengers on every side to summon soldiers, requisition horses, and collect provisions.

During this period Rosa and Sebastian spent a little of their time wandering hand in hand through the streets and bazaars of Beira, or sitting, still hand in hand, on the beach and watching the sea.

Sebastian Cabot Mappamundi of 1544 is an engraved map drawn in one ellipsis on the Bordone projection.

Bordeaux, San Sebastian, La Coruna, Lisbon, and finally through the Strait of Gibraltar.

After 1529, in order to facilitate emigration to America, vessels were allowed to sail from certain other ports, notably San Sebastian, Bilboa, Coruna, Cartagena and Malaga.

Thomas could have sung a Te Deum in praise of Saint Sebastian if his mouth had not been crammed with mud, for his rescuer was Father Hobbe, who must have heard the frantic shouting and come run- ning down the alley to investigate.

Sebastian sat in his library with Felix Dunbarton of Bow Street, listening in detail to the manner in which his nephew had been found this morning.

Sebastian Dromio threw off his dustcoat and sat down by a window which commanded the park.

Sebastian tried to push past Gitana without hurting her, but she grabbed hold of his arm.

I think I know what has done it: Sebastian gave such a frightful description of the mountain, of how the rocks were so overhanging and dangerous that at any minute you might fall into a crevasse, and how it was such steep climbing that you feared at every step to go slipping to the bottom, and that goats alone could make their way up without fear of being killed.

When the dance ended and Havering led her off the floor, Sebastian noticed how women clustered together to whisper when she passed.

But even if Sebastian had been inclined to explain himself, there would have been no point: the idea of simple friendship between a man and a woman was something Hendon could neither believe nor understand.

Earl of Hendon was in a big overstuffed armchair beside his library fire, a well-worn, leather-covered volume of Cicero lying open on his lap, when Sebastian walked in, the black loo-mask dangling from one finger.