Naming

Examples

• She found it difficult to induce Martha to speak of any of her personal interests; but at last she touched the right chord, in naming Mrs. Thornton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• If a gentleman was the victim of spies, intruders, and informers (but still naming no names), that was his own pleasure. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It was the delight of Adrian and myself to wait on Clara, naming her the little queen of the world, ourselves her humblest servitors. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Margaret had never spoken of Helstone since she left it, except just naming the place incidentally. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I could not help naming him slow and sure, from what I observed of him. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Jeremiah then says to me, “As to banns, next Sunday being the third time of asking (for I've put 'em up a fortnight), is my reason for naming Monday. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• That is your paper, Gomez said to him naming the leading Catholic-Conservative organ published in Madrid before the movement. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The directors of the railway were anxious to secure the best engine possible, and opened a general competition, naming certain conditions the engine must fulfil. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Those more generally employed are--naming them in the order of their first application--nitrous oxide gas, ether, and chloroform. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Avoiding forbidden ground, as you did just now, I may still say that on the constancy of one person (naming no person) all my expectations depend. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And this is not naming the songs you've got to sing. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Even I, safe as an Englishman, and even Tellson's, important as they are to French credit, avoid all naming of the matter. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I remember your naming him in your letters. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Go on, my dear Fanny, and without fear; there can be no difficulties worth naming. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• And if they were able to converse with one another, would they not suppose that they were naming what was actually before them? Plato. The Republic.

Edited by Abraham