Apostle and patron saint of Ireland

Usage examples of patrick.

Lone Star, one of our classmates had once suggested that Patrick Bambra must have kissed the Blarney Stone.

Patrick leaned over the side of the shelter where Bounder was hobbled and watched him eat the tufts of dried grass that Mackenzie had found for him.

But he could not have known until the actual face-to-face meeting that he, Brat, was not Patrick.

His pompous welcome drowned her more genuine pleasure, and she stood smiling gently at Brat while her husband trumpeted forth their satisfaction in seeing Patrick Ashby on their doorstep again.

She accepted her introduction to Brat with composure, but managed to convey the impression that it was personally delightful to her to have Patrick home again.

They had all come to inspect Brat, but he noticed that those who had known Patrick Ashby came with a genuine pleasure in welcoming him back.

Only the Rector, Bee, Charles, Eleanor, and the firm of Cosset, Thring and Noble knew, so far, that Brat was not Patrick Ashby.

Protected by Mother and Father, extras added by Mamo and Tress, later by Patrick, and whatever could be picked up from Bernard, who was older than the others and most often at work in the hotel.

As the little motoscafo approached the landing-stage on the north-west corner of the island, Patrick caught sight of a mournful procession directly ahead of them.

Perry Bay for the selection, he talked at length with Captain Bellamy and sent word to Patrick McNamara, who might have been an outspoken villain, but who was having marked success with the management of his own selection in the east.

They remembered Patrick Harper, stunned cold by the fall, and they had probed and palpated and found nothing broken and so he had been put into a ward where he could snore until he recovered consciousness.

Jon Patrick Holloway, Phate, now drove southeast on the rain-swept 280 freeway, toward St.

My safety, our safety, depended, under Providence, Saint Patrick, Stephen the Protomartyr, and Saint Brendan, solely upon my own ineptitude, my own gross ineptitude: I might even say inefficiency.

Introduced by irritating stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr, this four-hour show, shown over two consecutive nights and voted for by the public, included often lengthy and well-chosen clips and trailers from movies, TV shows, commercials, public service announcements and music videos, with commentary by Patrick Allen, Jane Asher, Rick Baker, Doug Bradley, Bruce Campbell, John Carpenter, Chris Carter, Alice Cooper, Wes Craven, Sean Cunningham, Shelley Duvall, Robert Englund, Fenella Fielding, William Friedkin, Mark Gatiss, Jerry Goldsmith, Muriel Grey, Gunnar Hansen, Dennis Hopper, Sara Karloff, Mark Kermode, John Landis, Christopher Lee, Janet Leigh, Kevin McCarthy, Kyle McLachlan, Michael Madsen, Nigel Kneale, Kim Newman, Dave Prowse, Ed Sanchez, David Skal, Stephen Spielberg, Stephen Volk, Sigourney Weaver and Joss Whedon, among many others.

Jimmy Carr, this four-hour show, shown over two consecutive nights and voted for by the public, included often lengthy and well-chosen clips and trailers from movies, TV shows, commercials, public service announcements and music videos, with commentary by Patrick Allen, Jane Asher, Rick Baker, Doug Bradley, Bruce Campbell, John Carpenter, Chris Carter, Alice Cooper, Wes Craven, Sean Cunningham, Shelley Duvall, Robert Englund, Fenella Fielding, William Friedkin, Mark Gatiss, Jerry Goldsmith, Muriel Grey, Gunnar Hansen, Dennis Hopper, Sara Karloff, Mark Kermode, John Landis, Christopher Lee, Janet Leigh, Kevin McCarthy, Kyle McLachlan, Michael Madsen, Nigel Kneale, Kim Newman, Dave Prowse, Ed Sanchez, David Skal, Stephen Spielberg, Stephen Volk, Sigourney Weaver and Joss Whedon, among many others.