What is "loretto"

Usage examples of "loretto".

He answered that he did not wish to go through Loretto, and that I would repent of my contempt for the grace of Saint-Francis.

Tony Loretti, having chosen the Club Janeiro merely as a headquarters, let his subordinates make the rounds and take a percentage of the profits.

Tony Loretti put Socks Mallory out of the running, so far as the night-club racket was concerned.

Attempting retaliation, Socks had encountered gangsters secretly employed by Loretti.

With pale face, Loretti was standing across the room, his hands up beside his head, his eyes staring beadily as Socks Mallory advanced.

Cranston had come in by one of the side corridors - a route which the police had searched in the belief that Socks Mallory had escaped by such an exit on the eventful evening when Tony Loretti had been slain.

He showed them the little monastery of Loretto, long monkless, with its honeyed carillon of bells and its blinding treasury.

I did not alter my mind, and I left for Loretto the next day in the enjoyment of perfect health.

I told him how well I had been treated in Loretto, and he assured me that I might have asked Monsignor Caraffa to give me letters for all the hospitals on my road to Rome, and that everywhere I would have met with the same reception.

I left Rome in the coach with a lady going to Our Lady of Loretto, to fulfil a vow made during a severe illness of her daughter, who accompanied her.

I then purchased a pair of shoes and an overcoat, and met Stephano, whom I informed of my decision to make a pilgrimage to Our Lady of Loretto.

This monastery (of which I had heard before) was the Loretto of the Mountains, and was famous for the number of pilgrims who resorted to it.