" Just like his illustrious namesake.

Here lay the little namesake of his pretty wife, just as he had left her, the true Bridget smiling and blushing as the young husband pointed out the poor substitute he had been compelled to receive for herself, only ten days earlier.

If he were a judge, as a celebrated namesake of his once was, he would do it by hanging a majority of members of the House he had the honor of addressing.

To this victory of Nero's it might be owing that his imperial namesake reigned at all.

"She's a regular baddix," announced my namesake, gravely judicial.

The English Boston, which gave its name to the great American seaport, was at one timealthough it is hard to believeof as relatively great importance as its mighty namesake of to-day.

I'll crowd my court and dais with men of God, As doth my peerless namesake, King of France.

Arcane came in with the stray namesake of the polygamous saint about this time shouting:"I've got himNo Indians."

The other Riddlethe Presbyterian pastorplanted himself by the lamp post on the corner of Third and Market streets, and with spectacles on nose and raised hands, loudly implored divine blessing on the labors of his tall namesake.

Her Mad Month (HUTCHINSON) is funny without being flippant, and although the heroine is very naughty she is never naughty enough to shock her creator's unhyphened namesake.

Mr. Lee, the preacher, is a ten times breezier man than his vivacious namesake at the Parish Church; he is small like him, dark- complexioned like him, wears spectacles like him; but he travels at the rate of 1000 miles an hour, and his namesake has never yet got beyond 500.

" Charles Wesley refuses to go with his wealthy namesake to Ireland, and the inheritance, which would have been his, goes to build up the fortunes of a Wellesley instead of a Wesley; and to this decision of a schoolboy (as Mr. Southey observes) Methodism may owe its existence, and England its militaryand, we trust we may now add, its civil and politicalgloryQuarterly Rev. * *

So the wicked old namesake with the Hoofs and Horns laid a trap for little Satan, and, as he is apt to do, he began laying it earlylong, indeed, before Christmas.

And there was the Mathematical Masterthe Rev. Rhadamanthus Rhomboidcompared with whom his classical namesake was a lenient judge.

For, should Democritus Junior prove to be what he professes, even a kinsman of his elder namesake, or be ever so little of the same kidney, it is all over with you: he will become both accuser and judge of you in your spleen, will dissipate you in jests, pulverise you into salt, and sacrifice you, I can promise you, to the God of Mirth.