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Saint Boniface

American  

noun

  1. a city in SE Manitoba, in S central Canada: suburb of Winnipeg.


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In the centre of the city, in the church of Saint Boniface, I found a placard requesting the faithful, out of respect for the holy place, not to give alms.

From Là-bas by Keene Wallace

Crump thinks Saint Boniface the centre of the world, and his position as President the highest in England.

From The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray

An edict of Charlemagne forbids eating and drinking on the tombs of the deceased, and Saint Boniface, the apostle of Germany, complains bitterly that the priests encouraged by their presence these feasts of death.

From Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by N. D'Anvers

These Services to religion instantly pointed him out for advancement in the Church, and he is now President of Saint Boniface, and very narrowly escaped the bench.

From The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray

Foker began to think he had had enough of Baymouth, and that a few supper parties at Saint Boniface would not be unpleasant.

From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray

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