He knew he had a namesake at the other side of the county, but this namesake did not come near him.
The old man laughed, and said, "Then no namesake of mine are you; for they call me Harry Vint.
But why did thynamesake start so at sight of thy picture?
Your namesake Pisistratus was wiser than you, then," said my father.
Our man Sancho felt himself as well off as his namesake when he had the run of the duke’s kitchen, and let me know, as I retired for the night, that it had been a proud time for the alforjas.
The Judge carried his namesake on the left arm, while his wife leaned upon his right.
Is he the Judge's namesake or the Judge his namesake?
Had he not been sore and nervous, and, as it must be admitted, almost stupid in the matter, he could not but have gathered from that tone that his namesake was at least no favourite with Miss Bonner.
The Squire accepted the excuse, and offered his namesake a horse for the park.
In the second week in May he went up to London, having heard that Gregory would be there at the same time; and he at once found himself consorting with his namesake almost as much as with the parson.
By the middle of May he had heard nothing either of his namesake or of Mary Bonner.
No will had been made leaving the estate to him, and his namesakewould be the heir-at-law.
I wish my namesake knew my father," he said, when he was alone with the lawyer after dinner.
There was present to his own mind the knowledge that he and his rich namesake were rivals in regard to the affections of this beautiful girl, and he could not avoid allusions to his own inferiority.
As to the estate itself, that, of course, would go to his namesake as his father's heir.
The supper was followed by a masque devised for the occasion by a namesake of the mayor, Thomas Middleton, the dramatic poet.
But a book by a namesake dealing with a duke was of much more than ordinary interest; so he immediately found the easiest of couches, and lay down under the awning on deck to hear what his namesake had to say about a duke.
His namesake had no thought of drawing any member of the Shropshire family, for his duke was represented as being tall, well-made, and handsome.
Indulge yourself," he whispered; "ought not the suggestion of the worthy namesake of the Psalmist to have its weight at such a moment?
It may interest you to know that the paper we now call the Spectator was not begun until more than a hundred years after its great namesake ceased to appear, the first number being published in 1828.
He had by this time founded a club of literary men which met at "a famous beef-steak house," and here he lorded it over his fellows as his bulky namesake had done more than a hundred years before.
Was all the good fortune of the race to be hers, and would none of it descend to the namesake who so closely resembled her?
That is the rose avenue where my namesake outwitted Sir Humphrey Warden.
Now I would pray you, sir bishop, that you assist my son and his men to obtain a becoming reconciliation in the action about Thorolf's death; because my namesake Kolbein was a stanch friend of his.
The truce which his namesake established between the men of Skagafirth and Grettir Asmundarson was well kept, and it redounded to their honor.
George and his wife were gone to London, and thence intended to pay a round of visits; and Norman had accompanied his namesake to Glenbracken.
May observed, was, to him, what Est-il-possible was to his namesake of Denmark.
Her blunder was all the more unpardonable because she should have been sufficiently interested in receiving a letter from a namesake to take this trouble.
If you see the ghost of my namesake Will in the greenwood, give him my love.
Imagine a daughter and namesake of Ellaline de Nesville being in the society of a man, and not trying to flirt with him!
Your namesake of the poem was a somewhat uncanny maid, if I recollect aright, and thought as little of seven years in elfland as ordinary folk do of half an hour on upper earth.
Malmaison had become the "veritable Jardin des Plantes" of the epoch,[52] far better than its Paris namesake in those days.
Your countryman and namesake was also a Grand Master of Malta," said Kennedy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "namesake" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
