Named

Examples

• My son Johnny, named so after his uncle, was at the grammar-school, and a towardly child. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• It was given to me, Comrade General, by an _Ingl閟_ named Roberto who had come to us as a dynamiter for this of the bridge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But his spirits were soon rising again, and with laughing eyes, after mentioning the expected return of the Campbells, he named the name of Dixon. Jane Austen. Emma.
• We backed a horse named Light For Me that finished fourth in a field of five. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Six of those last-named little promissory notes, all due on the same day, Ben, and all intrusted to me! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• To one who had named him slave, and, on any point, banned him from respect, he must now have peculiar feelings. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• One other Abbasid Caliph only need be named, and that quite as much for his legendary as for his real importance, Haroun-al-Raschid[331] (786-809). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The leader of the Gauls who sacked Rome was named Brennus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Again he named $100,000. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In half the time which he had named, he had captured the housekeeper's goodwill and was chatting with her as if he had known her for years. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Prince John had now no further excuse for resisting the claim of the Disinherited Knight, whom, therefore, he named the champion of the day. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I merely named the time. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Among them was the owner of a colliery in the north named Blackett, who built a number of engines for propelling coal-cars and used them at his mines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I have traced her to a shop at Frizinghall, kept by a linen draper named Maltby. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There were two girls named Edmundson in the same company. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Up to this time, all the rubber was called Para rubber, named from the town of Para in Brazil, from which all rubber was shipped. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Forty thousand dollars was named and accepted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A Frenchman named Denys Papin had built the first steam-engine with a piston. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Miss Ingram is mine, of course, said he: afterwards he named the two Misses Eshton, and Mrs. Dent. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Denis Johnson patented in England in 1818 a similar vehicle which he named the Pedestrian Curricle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It was named Fort Pemberton after the commander at Vicksburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Meantime a young man named George Stephenson, who was working at a coal mine at Killingworth, seven miles north of Newcastle, was studying out a new plan of locomotive. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• And he named his address: The H?tel Crécy, in the Rue Crécy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Artesian wells are named after the French Province of Artais, where they appear to have been first used on an extensive scale. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Yes, Mr. Blake, the person named in the letter. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The trader and Mr. Shelby were seated together in the dining room afore-named, at a table covered with papers and writing utensils. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Should contagious sickness exist in any of the ports named in the program, such ports will be passed, and others of interest substituted. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• These bud variations, as they may be named, can be propagated by grafts, offsets, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It seemed to me to be obvious that this Greek girl had been carried off by the young Englishman named Harold Latimer. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• My landlord has a daughter named Bella. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Edited by Gail