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ST. JAMES
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament
Synonyms:
James; Saint James; Saint James the Apostle; St. James; St. James the Apostle
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Apostle ((New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel)
saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)
Domain category:
New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)
Context examples:
By nature inoffensive, friendly, and obliging, his presentation at St. James's had made him courteous.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
When I saw him that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James’s Hall I felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set himself to hunt down.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By St. James! a blind man might find the place, for one has but to get in the wind from it, and follow the savory smell.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Within, a week St. James’s Street and the Mall will be full of nankeen waistcoats.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All day amid that incessant and mysterious menace our two Professors watched every bird upon the wing, and every shrub upon the bank, with many a sharp wordy contention, when the snarl of Summerlee came quick upon the deep growl of Challenger, but with no more sense of danger and no more reference to drum-beating Indians than if they were seated together in the smoking-room of the Royal Society's Club in St. James's Street.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Lady Lucas began directly to calculate, with more interest than the matter had ever excited before, how many years longer Mr. Bennet was likely to live; and Sir William gave it as his decided opinion, that whenever Mr. Collins should be in possession of the Longbourn estate, it would be highly expedient that both he and his wife should make their appearance at St. James's.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“By St. James! it were better so than to be polluted by his touch,” answered the Spaniard, with his black eyes sparkling with rage and hatred.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sir Charles Tregellis continued for some years to show his scarlet and gold at Newmarket, and his inimitable coats in St. James’s.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He could even listen to Sir William Lucas, when he complimented him on carrying away the brightest jewel of the country, and expressed his hopes of their all meeting frequently at St. James's, with very decent composure.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Of whom, cried Sir Oliver, I look more particularly to St. James of Compostella, who hath already befriended us this day, and on whose feast I hereby vow that I shall eat a second carp, if he will but interpose a second time.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
