521 examples of surname in sentences

3. Surname at birth, if different.

Hinterland You'll see the grave of Shawn Knarlbrand, Who slew the savage Buffaloon By the Nant-col one night in June, And won his surname from the horn Of this prodigious unicorn.

They declared the day on which the latter had been born accursed and forbade the employment of the surname Marcus by any one of his kin.

The original surname of the family was De Balinhard, assumed from an estate of that name in the county of Forfar.

As fearefull as a Haire, and will lye like a Lapwing, and I know how he came to be a Captain, and to have his Surname of Commendations.

thy Surname is never thought upon here, I perceive heeres nobody gives thee any commendations.

Shouts greeted him, shouts in which his surname and his Christian name and his nicknames were mingled, and he smiled pleasantly back at his friends.

Yet he was so prone to anger that he inflicted blows upon a distinguished knight, and for this exploit he obtained the surname of Castor.

Her heroine, like Natura, is little more than a "humour" character, whose prevailing fault is denoted by her surname.

The surname is from tlilli, black, and potonia, "emplumar á otro.

Thus at the termination of the year, along with the sacrifices to the Bacab of the year were others to Itzamná, either under his surname Canil, which has various meanings, or as Kinich-ahau, Lord of the Eye of the Day, or Yax-coc-ahmut, the first to know and hear of events, or finally as Uac-mètun-ahau, Lord of the Wheel of the Months.

The last line, which runs in the Italian thus Resto prigion d'un Cavalier armato, has an obvious play of words upon Cavalieri's surname.

He had never before been introduced to any one; and had never before been so acutely conscious that he had no surname.

It was as in China, where Confucius himself laid down the law: "A man in taking a wife does not choose one of the same surname as himself."

And in one of the Chinese commentaries the following reason is given for this law: "When husband and wife are of the same surname, their children do not do well and multiply."

ALAS'TOR, a surname of Zeus as "the Avenger."

In fine, Kitty merited her surname, and more than one laird in the neighborhood, more than one great nobleman even,thanks to the familiarity which reigned among the different classes in Scotland,had figured occasionally among her customers, caring as little what people might say as did the brave Duke of Argyle, whom Walter Scott has shown as conversing familiarly with his snuff merchant.

It is something to be especially noted, that C. Licinius Stolo, the man from whom these laws take their name, was not a needy political adventurer, but a very wealthy man, his possessions being mainly in land; and that he belonged to a gens (the Licinii) who were noted in after days for their immense wealth, among them being that Crassus whose avarice became proverbial, and whose surname was Dives, or the Rich.

Caius Caesar Caligula, the fourth Roman Emperor, the son of Germanicus and Agrippina, derived his surname from "Caliga," as having been born in the army, and afterwards bred up in the habit of a common soldier; he wore this military shoe in conformity to those of the common soldiers, with a view of engaging their affections.

Judas, who bore the surname Maccabeus (whence the word Maccabees), soon proved himself a great military leader.

She has of a sudden left her dairy, and sets up for a fine town lady; calls her maid Cisly, her woman speaks to her by her surname of Mrs. Cherryfist, and her great foot-boy of nineteen, big enough for a trooper, is stripped into a laced coat, now Mr. Page forsooth.

SEE Cott, E. P. Cott surname and given name key table indexes for county, state and municipal offices.

She 'a'n't had so much before sence she fell heir to old Miss Devereux's best chany, her six silver spoons, and her surname.

ERNST I., Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg; served in the Thirty Years' War under Gustavus Adolphus, and shared in the victory of Lützen; was an able and wise ruler, and gained for himself the surname of "the Pious" (1601-1675).

"And his name was?" "Part of your surname.

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