"Black friar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at the Cross that day was a Black Friar—a tall spare man, whom some might call gaunt and ungainly; a man of quick intelligence and radiant eyes, of earnest gesture and burning words. No idle monastic reveller this, but a man of one object, of one idea, full of zeal and determination. His ...
— For the Master's Sake - A Story of the Days of Queen Mary • Emily Sarah Holt
... staring sad-eyed into the hurrying waters of the brook, there came to him the clicking of sandalled feet, and glancing up, he beheld one clad as a black friar. A fat man he was, jolly of figure and mightily round; his nose was bulbous and he ...
— Beltane The Smith • Jeffery Farnol |
