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She's hoping that only the key-bearer gets the money, and is disappointed that the others won't have to give their money back.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 11: Hairy Potter & the Order of the Doofus. 2009
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(Apparently self-convinced that only the key-bearer gets to keep the money)
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 11: Hairy Potter & the Order of the Doofus. 2009
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May John the Baptist, forerunner of Christ, and the heavenly key-bearer, together with the other Apostles, release us from bonds of sin.
November 1: The Feast of All Saints bls 2008
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May John the Baptist, forerunner of Christ, and the heavenly key-bearer, together with the other Apostles, release us from bonds of sin.
Archive 2008-11-01 bls 2008
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We are struck by the writer's earnest devotion to the Mother of God, by the veneration paid to the saints, and notably to St. Peter, "the key-bearer," by the importance attached to the holy sacrifice of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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The portions were given out, and the key-bearer said, "As fast as you get your 'lowance, you may go."
Jamie Parker, the Fugitive Emily Catharine Pierson 1851
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Blessed Peter, the key-bearer, and his successors, that they might, for just and reasonable causes, distribute it to the faithful in full or in partial remission of the temporal punishment due to sin. "
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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"Then all the faithful Romans beholding so great a champion given them and the love which he bore towards the holy Roman Church and its vicar, in obedience to the will of God and S. Peter the key-bearer of the kingdom of heaven, cried with one accord in sound like thunder 'To
The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 William Holden Hutton 1895
bilby commented on the word key-bearer
"Sepulchral, in a saffron veil array'd, leas'd with dark ghosts that wander thro' the shade;
Persian, unconquerable huntress hail! The world's key-bearer never doom'd to fail."
- 'The Orphic Hymns', translated by Thomas Taylor.
December 13, 2007