" Joe and Micky Donlon, which the red-haired boy said was his name, though probably Michael was what he had been christened, were soon on their way toward the river and the location of one of the shipyards.

" In May, 1713, Lady Mary was delivered of a boy, who was christened after his father, Edward Wortley Montagu.

He christened her "Elephant and Castle.

It appears by the history of England, that he had the honour to stand godfather, with King William to a son of the prince and princess of Denmark, born at Hampton-court, the 24th of July 1689, and christened the 27th by the name of William, whom his Majesty declared duke of Gloucester.

Althea and I chanced one day to be passing the Royal Oak, as the chief inn of the village had been new christened, just as there reeled out of it a young gentleman whom every one had deemed a most hopeful pious youth, Mr. Truelocke in particular having a great opinion of him, though I never liked his demure looks for my part, nor his stiff way of dressing himself.

Ninon christened the society "Oiseaux des Tournelles," an appellation much coveted by the beaux and wits of Paris, and which distinguished the chosen company from the less favored gentlemen of the great metropolis.

It is the issue of Law and "scraps of paper" against Force, against what some apologists have called "the Philosophy of Violence," but which, in its latest form, the French Ambassador has more aptly christened "the Pedantry of Barbarism."

The babies are christened at the same font, the parents visit the same churches.

So from Charing Cross to the Gare du Nord, Placidia, as we christened her, became our care.

The good fathers christened them, however, arranging them alphabetically, by the names of Alixe and Bloyse, and confiding them to the especial charge of the wife of a trader connected with the station, who had no family of her own.

Cosimo they christened him, perhaps after his great ancestor Cosimo "Padre della Patria" "Cosimonino."

Violante, as the girl was christened, grew up, as beautiful as her aunt Cammilla, with a pair of eyes like hers, and nothing could restrain the passion of that young libertine, Don Piero de' Medici, for love of herhe was indeed his father's son!

Oh, I know there was no thought of pleasing me when she was christened, but

"I had him christened," she said plaintively.

"I had him christened David Livingstone, and I dressed him in a blue serge man-of-war suit; but he ran away."

The boys christened her "Mrs. Smilie," after a lady of that name whom they thought she resembled, and the poor thing came to a tragic end.

Kittiwake (christened, I believe, Kathleen Helen) is fat and broad and beaming, and very religious.

The person who was to be christened was a young negro of fifteen, who stood with his mother at the church door.

As the priest entered the church to perform mass, he christened him, in passing by, without much ceremony or solemnity, and even without sponsors; the boy, too, seemed to be as little touched by the whole affair as a new born infant.

A large number of these Indians have been christened.

This is literally true, for half way between "Flistridge" and Kemble Wood, and in the midst of Elysian grass fields, is a narrow strip of covert happily christened "Paradise.

A temporary frame structure, which the committee of arrangements christened "The Wigwam," was therefore designed and erected for this special use.

And when the wielder of the thunderbolt said, "He will suck me," the dwellers of heaven together with Indra christened the boy Mandhata, (literally, Me he shall suck).

Frederick Locker died at Rowfant on May 30, 1895, leaving behind him, carefully prepared for the press, a volume he had christened My Confidences: An Autographical Sketch addressed to My Descendants.

"And why so?" "Is it not enough to be so christened by so great a lady?"