521 examples of surnames in sentences

In the old capital they wore T'ae hats and black caps small; And ladies, who famed surnames bore, Their own thick hair let fall.

Afterward, in imitation of his example, some, by no means his equals in his victories, affixed splendid inscriptions on their statues and gave honorable surnames to their families.

Their dissatisfaction was augmented also by his acknowledging as his own the twin children he had by her, giving them the names of Alexander and Cleopatra, and adding, as their surnames, the titles of Sun and Moon.

Nothing is more common than to mistake surnames when we hear them carelessly uttered for the first time.

There is something a little awkward in this; for they are denominated in deeds by their names, with the addition of 'one of the Senators of the College of Justice;' and subscribe their Christian and surnames, as James Burnett, Henry Home, even in judicial acts.

One of the surnames of the god was Yngve, from which the family derived the name Ynglings.

Two goodly surnames have they purchased.

Their papers are signed with the initials of their surnames.

(Write the surnames in alphabetical order, and leave sufficient space between the alphabetical letters to insert all additional names.)

I thought I had adroitly escaped the rather unpliable name of "Williams," curtailing your poor daughters to their proper surnames; but it seems you would not let me off so easily.

Dictionary words, initial letters, surnames of persons, names of cities, towns, villages, States, and Territories, or names of the Canadian Provinces will be counted each as one word: e.g., New York, District of Columbia, East St. Louis should each be counted as one word.

In the neutral country where I was doing this there was a very wicked and a very plausible man, whom we will call Mr. Abrahams (he has had so many surnames at one time and another that a new one cannot do him any harm).

Surnames were good enough for them.)

We were assured that there are in Bridgetown, colored ladies of "respectability," who, though never married, have large families of children whose different surnames indicate their difference of parentage, but who probably do not know their fathers by any other token.

We were assured that there are in Bridgetown, colored ladies of "respectability," who, though never married, have large families of children whose different surnames indicate their difference of parentage, but who probably do not know their fathers by any other token.

The names are varied, so as to introduce the same family under all sorts of different surnames.

Jack L. Weinman (E); 28Jan74; R569482. R569483. 7,000 Scottish family names: a book review by Henry Louis Mencken of "The Surnames of Scotland," by George Fraser Black.

Jack L. Weinman (E); 28Jan74; R569482. R569483. 7,000 Scottish family names: a book review by Henry Louis Mencken of "The Surnames of Scotland," by George Fraser Black.

He is referred to Mr. Markland's paper "On the Antiquity and Introduction of Surnames into England" (Archæologia, xviii.

Mr. Markland says, "Sir Joseph Jekyll, when Master of the Rolls, in the year 1730, remarks'I am satisfied the usage of passing Acts of Parliament for the taking upon one a surname is but modern; and that any one may take upon him what surname, and as many surnames, as he pleases, without an Act of Parliament.'

Sir Joseph Jekyll, in the case of Barlow v. Bateman, in 1730, said, "I am satisfied the usage of passing Acts of Parliament for the taking upon one a surname is but modern, and that any one may take upon him what surname, and as many surnames, as he pleases, without an Act of Parliament."

This name-giving injury, he would say, "could never be undone; nay, he doubted whether an Act of Parliament could reach it; he knew, as well as you, that the Legislature assumed a power over surnames; but for very strong reasons, which he could give, it had never yet adventured, he would say, to go a step further.

His brother Aaron took the name Alexander not thinking how it looked for two brothers of the same parents to have different surnames.

This caused many of them, she claims, to drop or change their names to Spanish or American surnames.

" Murtaza 'Ali, the son-in-law of the prophet; one of his surnames is Mushkil-kusha, or " the remover of difficulties."

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