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In short, this new land is so like Spain, only more wonderful and beautiful, that he christens it Espanola. They stayed two days in the harbour of Saint Nicholas, and then began to coast eastwards along the shores of Espaniola.
The one of them is the extreme conservative tendency which regards every pin and bolt of the tabernacle as if it were equally sacred with the altar and the ark. And the other is the tendency which christens itself 'liberal and progressive, and which is always ready to exchange old lamps, though they have burnt brightly in the past, for new ones that are as yet only glittering metal and untried.
Within the "shooting box", as the young man who has traveled christens the house, thinking that an appropriate title for a domicile where so many members of the Hunt family are collected, there is a motley assembly, as they gather around the sitting room table.
Do you hear, men?" continued he, turning to his censitaires, "my Lord Bishop christens our battery Beauport, and says it will stand fire!" "Vive le Roi!" was the response, an exclamation that came spontaneously to the lips of all Frenchmen on every emergency of danger or emotion of joy.
As these great currents heave, there are tossed up in every watering-place and every city in America, as on an ocean beach, certain pretty bubbles of foam; and each spot, we may suppose, counts its own bubbles brighter than those of its neighbors, and christens them "society."
The sight of the weeping child touches a chord in the heart of Gowhar Jan, the famous dancing girl of Lahore. She takes the orphan home, christens her Imtiazan, and does her best to blunt the evil memories of her desertion. Gowhar Jan did her duty by the child according to her lights.
In short, this new land is so like Spain, only more wonderful and beautiful, that he christens it Espanola. They stayed two days in the harbour of Saint Nicholas, and then began to coast eastwards along the shores of Espaniola.
But I s'pose the swile-fishery's needful; an' I knows, in course, that even Christens' blood's got to be taken sometimes, when it's bad blood, an' I would n' be childish about they things: on'y ef it's me when I can live by fishun, I don' want to go an' club an' shoot an' cut an' slash among poor harmless things that 'ould never harm man or 'oman, an' 'ould cry great tears down for pity-sake, an' got a sound like a Christen: I 'ould n' like to go a-swilun for gain, not after beun among 'em, way I was, anyways."
He takes possession of the shore for Queen Elizabeth, christens it New Albion, and erects a monument. His bay is called Francis Drake's Bay. 1595 In 1595 the Spanish navigator Sebastian Rodriguez Cermeno is wrecked in Francis Drake's Bay, to which he gives the name Bay of San Francisco. This was a small bay behind Point Reyes, north of the entrance to the Golden Gate.
'And when is the wedding-day to be, Hayward? the Baron asked, after Jim had told him that matters were settled. 'It is not quite certain yet, my noble lord, said Jim cheerfully. 'But I hope 'twill not be long after the time when God A'mighty christens the little apples. 'And when is that? 'St. Swithin's the middle of July. 'Tis to be some time in that month, she tells me.
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