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Then Barnabas and Saul departed from Jerusalem, having completed the distribution of the sum entrusted with them; and they took with them John, whose surname was Mark. NOW there were at Antioch, according to the established church, prophets and teachers; such as Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger the black, and Lucius a Cyrenian, and Manaen, Herod the tetrarch's foster-brother, and Saul.
Ahmed Al-Makkari, the author or compiler of the present work, derived his surname from a village near Telemsan called Makkarah, where his family had been established since the conquest of Africa by the Arabs.
He knew his job all right, but he was a fine example of what an officer ought not to be. The only reason I speak of him is because I want to say something about officers in general. This Mad Harry, I do not give his surname for obvious reasons, was the son of one of the richest-new-rich-merchant families in England.
And Kenneth placed the yellow sheet in Eleanor's hand. She read aloud to anxious Polly: "One branch of family has a Montresor two generations back the name was used as surname. Brother was christened Peter Miles Montresor Amesbury. Disliked name Montresor, dropped it when young. Every one forgot about it. Am sending letter with photograph of Peter. Show Polly. Wire results. Father may come west.
The Erse tongue is nearly the same as the Gaelic, and there was much in the Irish and Highland institutions showing their common origin. The clan system prevailed in Ireland, the clans being called Septs, and all having, as a surname, the name of the common ancestor. His representative, the chief, was known as the Carfinny; but the succession was not determined by the rules of primogeniture.
After this period Tarquin began his reign, whose actions procured him the surname of the Proud, for he refused his father-in-law burial, alleging, that even Romulus died without sepulture. He put to death the principal senators, whom he suspected of having been in the interest of Servius.
Next day Willersley wanted to go on, but I delayed. Altogether I kept him back four days. Then abruptly my mood changed, and we decided to start early the following morning. I remember, though a little indistinctly, the feeling of my last talk with that woman whose surname, odd as it may seem, either I never learnt or I have forgotten.
"He whom the child calls father." "And what is his name?" "Michael." "What is his surname?" "I never asked him." "What! you never asked his name? What do you know of him?" "I know he is an honest man, and loves Noémi." "But what is he? A gentleman, a peasant, a workman, a sailor, or a smuggler?" "He is a poor man, suited to us." "And what else? I must know, for it is part of my duty.
Peter muttered, but the girl's quick ears caught the words over the roar of that "ill wind" which had brought them together. "Child is my surname, and it's not polite to call me by it." She brought him to his bearings by suddenly "frivolling" again. "They call militant suffragettes and housemaids sent to prison for stealing their kind mistresses' jewels by their surnames.
She had a different surname then, by the way, I remember." "Henrietta has had four in all counting in her maiden name, I mean." "Exactly," Miss Felicia argued, "and that, no doubt, does prejudice me a little against her.
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