"Baptismal name" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Jim!" he said, coming up to her when the initiator had been called to the other end of the room. "Jim" was a childish corruption of her curious baptismal name: Jennifer. Her Italian schoolmates called ...
— The Gadfly • E. L. Voynich
... Pawnees excel them," was the reply of Lone Bear, who in those words uttered the greatest compliment possible to the warlike tribe which did more than any other to give Kentucky its baptismal name of the Dark and ...
— Footprints in the Forest • Edward Sylvester Ellis
... sure! Why didn't I think of that?" and she affixed a signature in which the baptismal name gave away her romantic and impulsive generation—Elaine W. Maze. "Now," she triumphed, as Gaites helped her into her trap—"now I shall have a ...
— A Pair of Patient Lovers • William Dean Howells
... Patrick was not the baptismal name of the saint; it was given him by St. Celestine[118] as indicative of rank, or it may be with some prophetic intimation of his future greatness. He was baptized by the no less significant appellation of Succat—"brave ...
— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack
... whose baptismal name was John Rowlands, was born of poor parents in Wales, in 1840. Being left an orphan at the age of three, he was sent to the poorhouse in his native place. There he remained for ten years, and then shipped ...
— Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life • Orison Swett Marden |
