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Doty and his party yoked up and set out straight across the desert, leaving seven wagons of the Bennett party still in camp. For some time all of us had seen in the range ahead an appearance of a pass, or lower place in the mountain, and we had got to calling it Martin's Pass, naming it after Jim Martin.
"Nay, but, fair Catherine," said the page, "why will you thus damp my ardour, when I am devoting myself, body and soul, to the cause of your mistress?" "It is because in doing so," said Catherine, "you debase a cause so noble, by naming along with it any lower or more selfish motive.
That pleases me, and I study to be useful to him in every way I can, so as to increase his regard. During the last day or two I have taken all the work of naming things off his hands, and this has been a great relief to him, for he has no gift in that line, and is evidently very grateful. He can't think of a rational name to save him, but I do not let him see that I am aware of his defect.
He went on to explain their position, naming each locality and pointing to it with outstretched hand. The plateau de l'Algerie was a belt of reddish ground, something less than two miles in length, sloping gently downward from the wood of la Garenne toward the Meuse, from which it was separated by the meadows.
For the present, such men are extremely rare I should have difficulty in naming a dozen of them and aristocratic ideas are extremely unpopular among the great majority of the educated classes. When a Russian indulges in political speculation, he is pretty sure to show himself thoroughly democratic, with a strong leaning to socialism. The Prince belongs to the highest rank of the Russian Noblesse.
"I have a letter from Emily," said Bertha at breakfast, naming a friend of hers who lived in the far north of London. "I'm going to see her to-day." "Very well," answered Mrs. Cross, between rigid lips. "She says that in the house where she lives, there's a bed-sitting-room to let. I think, mother, it might be better for me to take it." "You will do just as you please, Bertha."
"Your pardon, captain," said the sergeant, "but you are uttering many words that no maiden should hear." "Do you dare to argue with me, you foul-tongued camp scavenger?" shouted Gallus. "Here, guard, lash him to that tree! Fear not, daughter; the insult shall be avenged; we shall teach his dirty tongue to sing another tune," and again he cursed him, naming him by new names.
Notwithstanding this silence, however, the transmutation theory, as it has been called, has been a "skeleton in the closet" to many an honest zoologist and botanist who had a soul above the mere naming of dried plants and skins.
It was he who gave the name electrolysis to decomposition by the electric current; he also proposed to call the wires, or conductors connected with the battery, or other electric source, the electrodes, naming that one which was connected with the positive terminal, the anode, and that one connected with the negative terminal, the cathode.
Then said the King: 'What wouldst thou say, boy, that thou lookest at me so? Vögg answered: 'When I was at home, I heard tell that King Rolf at Hleidr was the tallest man in Northland; but now here sits in the high seat a thin stake, and they call him their king. Then answered the King: 'Thou, boy, hast given me a name to be known by Rolf Stake to wit. 'Tis custom to follow a naming with a gift.
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