The names of the dishes and sauces have occasioned the greatest perplexity.
The Contents prefixed will exhibit at once a most formidable list of these hideous names and titles, so that there is no need to report them here.
But anyhow the names of all these volunteers could not be celebrated, on account of their great number.
There was little reason for them to hesitate, since at that time the names of Serb and Bulgar implied no national differentiation, but were used to designate the brothers of two different provinces.
The names of Latin colouring may either be memorials of the Romanized Thracians or else may refer to the mediæval Catholics, whether Saxon miners or travelling merchants.
These names and those of persons have been generally spelt in accordance with Croat orthography--that is to say, with the Latin alphabet modified in order to reproduce all the sounds of the Serbo-Croatian language.
A table has been prepared, and accompanies this paper, upon which are designated the several governing meridians and names suggested for the corresponding sectional times.
Many plant names are dedicatory; they embody the names of the saints and a few the names of the Deity.
He names "archherbs," which are simply climbing vines to set "winding in arch-manner on withie poles.
They know little about the reasons for names of localities, or of any historical traditions save those of the Revolution.
It is one of the ironies of plant-nomenclature when we have so few plant names saved to us from the picturesque and often musical speech of the American Indians, that the lovely Cherokee Rose, Indian of name, is a Chinese Rose.
I am never more filled with a sense of the delight of old English plant-names than when I read the liquid verse of Spenser:-- "Bring hether the pincke and purple Cullembine .
Not only have poets and dramatists sung it, but it is a common favorite, as shown by its homely names in our everyday speech.
The sixty-two folk names of the Foxglove give ample proof of its closeness to humanity; it is a familiar flower, a home flower.
Having this list of the names of these sturdy old annuals and perennials, what do you perceive besides the printed words?
Dean Hole names the Spiraeas, Deutzias, Weigelas, and Forsythias as having been brought into his ken in English gardens within his own lifetime, that is within fourscore years.
Their names were always in Edmund's mouth, and it was nothing but accident.
Mrs. Phillips seems to have been their favourite author, and they have distributed the names of her heroes and heroines among their circle of intimacy.
The locative, which had almost vanished in classic Latin, lingered in Vulgar Latin only in names of places.
To the portages about the rapids on such rivers as the St. Lawrence and Ottawa, descriptive names were given by the French.
Many of the most ancient portages had distinct names but I have not recovered any of these.
Perhaps the most important exception may be found in the stamps of makers' names on wine-bottles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Footnote 50: Great care must be exercised in translating the names of the precious stones and marbles mentioned by Greek and Roman writers.
Schuermans has discovered the names of more than twenty Italians from L'Altare or from Venice, who found their way to Spain, in some cases by way of Flanders.
These names are used in the vaguest way, which hardly ever corresponds to the modern meaning.
In China to-day the word liao has replaced the older names for glass.
So in Normandy we find the names of De Bongar, De Caquery, Le Vaillant, and De Brossard.
Already in Roman times we hear of writings that describe the manufacture of artificial gems: Pliny says that he purposely abstains from mentioning the names of these works--he would not help to spread so objectionable an industry.
I was to draft these, and sign the proper names to them as grantors and witnesses.
Names and sacrifices of noted philanthropists were eloquently commented upon, and pathetic instances were narrated of noble women who had spent their lives in this human ministry.
These two highwaymen dreaded any mention of their names in such connection.
However, they began most exhaustive search to locate the different grantors whose names appeared in the Dodge chain of title.
Much of all this is held by trusted agents as ostensible owners, but he gives their names and addresses.
A souvenir of their part in the War of 1812 at the Battle of the Thames is kept in one of the favorite names for mountain girls--"Lake Erie.
One hundred and thirteen names are signed to the document.
Since we know that Brother Grube's spelling of names other than German requires editing, we venture to hazard a guess that the name he attempted to set down as it sounded to him was Sevier.
Nor yet do those names appear on the roster of the Watauga and Holston men who, in 1774, fought with Shelby under Andrew Lewis in the Battle of Point Pleasant.
Nor are the names of the leaders of the Regulation to be found in the list of signatures affixed to the one "state paper" of Watauga which was preserved and written into historic annals.
The Hindoos are able to recount the names of ten sin-atoning Saviors who made their appearance on earth at these regular intervals of six hundred years.
And should not Matthew have furnished us, by way of proof, with the names of some of these ghostly visitors?
Their names are all different but two, that of Salathiel and Zorobabel, which names alone are found in both lists.
To three of them the names of Lagoon Island, Bow Island, and Chain Island were given; several of them were inhabited.
Some cocoanuts and yams were planted on the island, and some melon-seeds; while a bottle was deposited, with the names of the ships and the date of the visit.
Five islands were seen on this occasion, and were distinguished by the names of Woahoo, Atooi, Oneeheow, Oreehoua, and Tahoora.
The ship was now near a cluster of islands to which the names of the Mayor and the Court of Aldermen were given.
The ceremony was concluded by the king exchanging names with Cook.
The namesof several places visited by Captain Cook have, in course of time, been varied or altered.
I will take with me to the field all the men living, old and young, who have made those names great.
We Americans, too, would have had a very different sort of annals to write, if the Stuarts, who have given so many names to American places, had known how to use that sword which they were so fond of handling.
But he shall be remembered, when their names are blotted out for ever.
My papers contained the most exact details, the names of the leaders, their objects, their points of assembling, and even their points of attack.
The names of two of his partners were household words in the county, and stood high amongst the best.
Olga listened to him attentively; many of thenames of the people in Society were familiar to her, she remembered them from his former accounts, and she showed by her questions now and again that she was following him with real interest.
Then the first speaker, who is otherwise very proud of the fact that, owing to mental stupidity, he cannot learn anything by heart, rattles off the long menu, together with the names of the various wines!
Bankrupts, gamblers, men with whom nobody would have anything to do if it were not that they owned noble names and wore uniforms.
When the namesof the lieutenants were given--he saluted the first lieutenants as his superiors--his bearing relaxed somewhat, and he returned the salutes of his comrades cordially.
It was only when the names of the lieutenants were read out that there was any sign of life in Winkler's bearing.
It will be perceived that many of thenames are familiar, and the descendants are still scattered profusely over this section of the country, as well as the Union.
An Englishman and his wife, whose names are not recollected, were in the house at the time, both of whom begged for their lives, declared they were loyal to the king, and would accompany them.
Although we made every effort to ascertain the names of some of the massacred and the circumstances attending their massacre, we signally failed.
It is to be regretted that Mr. Maguire was so feeble, when giving us an account of this expedition, that we feared to ask him for a repetition of the names of Captain Blair's command.
This stone was most unquestionably erected, by some of the men whose names it bore, on the same spot where the original stone stood, but was subsequently removed to or near where the old court-house in Huntingdon formerly stood.
Of course, this list does not comprise all the old settlers, nor probably even a majority of them, but we copy a portion of the names from Mr. Bell's Memoir.
Here and there we picked up the names of a few who were in it; but nothing would have given us greater pleasure than to insert a full and correct list of these brave men.
I am also indebted to a number of persons for information that has been of value to me, whose names will be mentioned in another place in the work.
The names of the persons killed or taken prisoners at that time are not recorded, and, we regret to say, few of any of the particulars connected therewith have been preserved.
Bribes are so little known in this country that we can hardly get clear and specific technical names to distinguish them; but in future, I am afraid, the conduct of Mr. Hastings will improve our law vocabulary.
But though we have here sufficient reason to justify the great lawyers whose names and authorities are produced, yet Mr. Hastings has extended that authority beyond the length of their opinions.
It is necessary that your Lordships should see that Mr. Hastings has made use of a perversion of the names of authorized gifts to cover the most abominable and prostituted bribery.
Of his brothers and sisters, although he had a great number, he seldom talked, and I scarcely knew the names of the States in which they lived, as they were scattered in every direction.
We learned by degrees that their names had long been connected with suspicious gossip, but they seemed to have been very discreet, for the matter was always a mystery.
To you, more than to any others, the privilege is given to assure that happiness and swell that grandeur, and to link your own names therewith forever.
On the day following his Inauguration, President Lincoln sent to the United States Senate the names of those whom he had chosen to constitute his Cabinet, as follows: William H.
I have a piece of paper and a pencil in my pocket, and I'll draw a map of it as we go along, and we'll give names to all the capes and bays and headlands.
Isobel thought no enchanted palace could rival the greenhouses, gay with geraniums and fuchsias and rare plants, the names of which she did not know, or the vinery with its countless bunches of black grapes hanging from the roof.
It's most exciting to hunt out theirnames in the botany book.
Isn't it queer that our namesshould be just the same, and our ages too?
We're going to float them on to pieces of paper, and when they are dry we will paste them in a large scrap album, and find out their names from a book which I think I can borrow from the Free Library at home.
You could write the names under the wild flowers you have pressed, arrange the shells in boxes, and float some of the sea-weeds on to pieces of writing-paper.
He's so dreadfully afraid, if he lets it stay on the island, that horrid cheap trippers might come some time and carve their names on it.
Then we can put up a flag and decide on names and everything.
When two or more men are addressed, do not omit the title Mr., before the name of each of the men, unless their names constitute a partnership or trading name.
Proper names and titles generally form plurals in the same way as do other nouns; as, Senators Webster and Clay, the three Henrys.
Do not use at for in with the names of large cities Wrong: He lives at Philadelphia.
It is better to avoid abbreviating any but the longer names of states.
In forming the plurals of proper names where a title is used, either the title or the name may be put in the plural form.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "names" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
