Death Comes for the Archbishop Quotes

Untaught and unshepherded, they cling to the faith of their fathers. (P.15)

As this was Christmas Day, the two friends were speaking in their native tongue. For years they had made it a practice to speak English together, except upon very special occasions, and of late the...

"Only last year the Indian pueblo of San Fernandez de Taos murdered and scalped the American Governor and some dozen other whites." (P.25)

But the priest had charged him twenty pesos [for his marriage], and that was half of all he had saved to buy furniture and glass windows for his house. (1.22)

"Only last year the Indian pueblo of San Fernandez de Taos murdered and scalped the American Governor and some dozen other whites." (P.25)

In those days, even in European countries, death had a solemn social importance. It was not regarded as a moment when certain bodily organs ceased to function, but as a dramatic climax, a moment wh...

As Father Vaillant remarked, at Rome they did not seem to realize that it was no easy matter for two missionaries on horseback to keep up with the march of history. (7.1.2)

The difficulty was that the country in which he found himself was so featureless—or rather, that it was crowded with features, all exactly alike. (1.1.1)