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We did christen her Keren-Happuch; "for," quoth my wife, "when that we be pleased with her, we can call her Keren which is as sweet-sounding a name as a maid can have; and, on the other hand, when we be wroth with her, we can call her Happuch which sure would be a rough name even for thy trotting mare Bellibone." Ha! ha!
The magnates of West Ossipee had named a mountain near Chocorua for Whittier and challenged him to climb to the top of it and christen it properly with a bottle of champagne, but he said No, that his days for climbing were over; that he thought mountains belonged to the whole country and he had no desire to appropriate any of them.
Miss Cooper may strive in vain, with benevolent intent, to christen her favorite spring-blossoms "May-Wings" and "Gay-Wings," and "Fringe-Cup" and "Squirrel-Cup," and "Cool-Wort" and "Bead-Ruby"; there is no conceivable reason why these should not be the familiar appellations, except the irresistible fact that they are not.
"Oh, that's what the saints say!" exclaimed Dawson, with a laugh. "We shall very soon christen you the saint, Bracebridge, if you talk in that way." "I don't mind what you may call me," said Ernest, quietly; "I only repeat what a sensible man has told me; I am very certain that he has only said what he knows to be the truth."
"I found them in the draw where the wild plums grow," Asher said. "How they ever escaped the hoppers is a miracle." "We will christen our claim 'The Sunflower Ranch' tonight, and these are our decorations for the ceremony. It is all we have now. But it is ours," Virginia declared. And then she told the story of the bank failure at Cloverdale.
We've got to assume the responsibility of him, his mother having come to grief on your demesne. When you are ready to christen him I'll get Red to stand godfather for him that is, if you have no other preferred sponsor in mind." The girl looked up quickly; his tone seemed a bit patronizing and to her mind altogether too familiar.
No one would have supposed it destined that some fine night a leering barroom wit should reply to his whispered application for a small loan by pouring a half-glass of whiskey upon his head and saying: "I hereby christen thee 'Busted." The title stuck. Blake, through continued impecuniosity, lost all shame of it in time; lost, too, his self-respect and his wife. Mrs.
And you'll be just in time to christen him. We've been looking for a name." "I should love to christen the panther, and you are more than kind to say your aunt would like me to visit her; but I can't possibly, thank you very much," answered Victoria in the old-fashioned, quaintly provincial way which somehow intensified the effect of her brilliant prettiness.
Your mother has got to go to Newcastle to christen a new British warship a compliment the Admiralty pays her "to bind the two nations closer together" etc. etc. And I've got to go to Cambridge to receive an LL.D. for the President. Only such things are allowed to interrupt us. And we are very much hoping to see Frank here. We are in sound of the battle.
She remains the winter here. Do you not guess who it is? A little lady from Lemvig!" "Maren!" exclaimed Otto. "Yes, truly!" said the lady. "She is said to have such a beautiful voice!" "Yes, in Lemvig," remarked Adelaide. "And what a horrible name she has! We must christen her again, when she comes. She must be called Mara, or Massa." "We could call her Massa Carara!" said Grethe.
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