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Leal   /lil/   Listen
Leal

adjective
1.
Faithful and true.






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"Leal" Quotes from Famous Books



... the whole broad earth around For that one heart which, leal and true, Bears friendship without end or bound, And ...
— Stickeen • John Muir

... leads me at last to Mexico.—We had had, on the whole, rather a hard morning of it. The Don, who was my host in the siempre leal y insigne ciudad de Mejico,—and a most munificent and hospitable Don he was,—took me out one day in the month of March last to visit a hacienda or farm which he possessed, called, if I remember aright, La Escalera. I repeat, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 • Various

... The law was severe in those days; and the Post Office has the distinction of having obtained judgment against a robber who was the last criminal hung in chains in Scotland. According to Rogers, in his Social Life of Scotland, this was one Leal, who, in 1773, was found guilty of robbing the mail near Elgin. A curious fact came out in connection with the trial of this man Leal, showing what may be termed the momentum of evil. It happened that some time previously ...
— A Hundred Years by Post - A Jubilee Retrospect • J. Wilson Hyde

... tribunal with ignominy and disdain. The very president of the synagogue became a Christian, and conversions multiplied among the native Corinthians. Paul enjoyed the solace of living under the roof of two leal-hearted friends of his own race and his own occupation, Aquila and Priscilla. He remained a year and a half in the city and founded one of the most interesting of his churches, thus planting the standard ...
— The Life of St. Paul • James Stalker



Words linked to "Leal" :   loyal, archaism, archaicism, Scotland



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