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"He would first be obliged to turn dentist and claw-remover, Miss Tompkins," said Vaura merrily. "Miss Vernon," said Mrs. Haughton stiffly, "allow me even thus early in our acquaintance to make a request of you which is that you ignore the odious sirname of my step-daughter, simply calling her Blanche." "Certainly, Mrs. Haughton, though it is out of order, if your step-daughter also wishes it."
The loyal subject, who bore the name of Julius De Berry, was knighted on the spot, and the sirname of Fraize was given him in lieu of that which he had borne.
When Mr Cophagus passed through the shop and looked at me, as I continued to thump away with the heavy iron pestle. "Good," said he, "by-and-bye M.D. and so on." I thought it was a very rough road to such preferment, and I stopped to take a little breath. "By-the-by Japhet Christian name and so on sirname heh!" "Mr Cophagus wishes to know your other name," said Mr Brookes, interpreting.
To which question, one shall answer, I am the Lord's; another, I am one of old Jacob's family and offspring; another, if you desiderate my name, look the covenant subscriptions and you will find it there; another shall say, whatever my name was before, my sirname now is an Israelite.
For, if a person could attain Jacob's spirit, name and sirname would be lovely in their eyes, covenant and covenanting. 2dly, To those who had put their hands to many sinful covenants in opposition to this covenant, and such as being in a natural and unrenewed state, in league with sin and Satan, and in covenant with hell and death.
When Mr Cophagus passed through the shop and looked at me, as I continued to thump away with the heavy iron pestle, "Good," said he, "by-and-by M.D. and so on." I thought it was a very rough road to such preferment, and I stopped to take a little breath. "By-the-by Japhet Christian name and so on sirname heh!" "Mr Cophagus wishes to know your other name," said Mr Brookes, interpreting.
Wherefore from among the men who have associated with us always during the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from his baptism by John, until the day in which he was taken up from us, must there be chosen with us a witness of his resurrection, even one of these. So they appointed two persons, Joseph called Barsabas, whose sirname was Justus, and Matthias.
But oh, how she did love to talk about that man; truly she used his sirname to connect us to the vast past, and to the mysterious future. We trod that Plank every day and all day, if we would listen to her.
All but Miss Plank, and a few old maids and widders, and such, who mebby had had hopes. Miss Plank looked and acted as flat and crushed down as one of her favorite cakes, or as if she wuz a-layin' under her own sirname. She said she hated to lose the profit of such a boarder, and mebby that wuz it I don't say it wuzn't.
Manetho also, who lived about the time of Nebuchadon-Asser, Asser being a Syriac word usually applied as a sirname to the kings of that country, as Teglat Phael-Asser, Nabon-Asser, he, I say, formed a conjecture equally absurd; for as we usually say ek to biblion kubernetes, which implies that books will never teach the world; so he attempted to investigate But, Sir, I ask pardon, I am straying from the question. That he actually was; nor could I for my life see how the creation of the world had any thing to do with the business I was talking of; but it was sufficient to shew me that he was a man of letters, and I now reverenced him the more.
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