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1. Christen him the
2. they‘re not, would you like to stay here and christen the hull with us?‖
3. He placed a shoe on one shelf, to christen the unit and in a matter of seconds all six shelves slid down the wall, and hit the floor one by one
4. the wicked love to christen
5. “Besides, every time we christen a ship Enterprise, the crew goes out of its way to top all the previous set records, and I hate putting that much stress on our personnel
6. ‘Why not give her a name? Why not I christen her Swapna, the dream one?’ He pondered over the proposition and gave up in the end realizing that even the most evocative name wouldn’t move him since she didn’t lend her voice to it
7. When his father had bought the car five years ago for Josh’s thirteenth birthday and had it brought home on Big Earl’s ramp truck—it would be months later, as the transformation of the car took shape, that Josh would christen it The Beast—the thing had been in bad shape
8. “ I christen our newest vintage, ‘Desiree’s Passion
9. What right have you to christen me?"
10. “I christen thee United States Ship Ronald Reagan, and God bless all those who sail on her,” says Nancy Reagan on March 4, 2001, standing before a crowd of thousands in Newport News, Virginia
11. You send five bob to some nuns in Africa and they christen a baby and name her after you
12. “I christen thee, I christen thee, I christen thee—“ said Biggs thickly
13. “I christen thee Biggs, Biggs, Biggs Canal—“
14. I was surprised to see how thirsty the bricks were which drank up all the moisture in my plaster before I had smoothed it, and how many pailfuls of water it takes to christen a new hearth
15. Then the parents are instructed, nay, even ordered, under penalty of punishment in the event of non-compliance, to christen the child—that is, to let the priest immerse it three times in the water, while words unintelligible to all present are read, and still less intelligible ceremonies are performed, such as the application of oil to different parts of the body, the cutting of the hair, the blowing and spitting of the sponsors at the imaginary devil
16. ) Whence, sir, do you get the right, whence do you derive the powers to erect custom-houses in the maritime districts of the United States? To attach to them ten, fifteen, or twenty custom-house officers; and clothe these men with authority to invade the domicile, to break into the dwelling-house of perhaps an innocent citizen? Whence do you get it, sir, except as an implied power resulting from the authority given in the constitution "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises?" If, under this authority, you can erect these custom-houses and create this municipal, fiscal, inquisitorial gens d'armerie, with liberty to violate the rights of the citizen, to break into his castle at midnight, without even a form of warrant, on a plausible appearance of probability, or probable cause of suspicion of his secreting smuggled goods, which the event may prove to be unfounded—and it will be recollected that a majority of Congress voted for the grant of this power in its most offensive form, when two years since they voted for the act enforcing the embargo—I say, sir, if under this general power to collect duties, you can erect the establishment and give the offensive power just mentioned, can you not, with the concurrence even of the citizens, adopt another more mild and useful mode, and create an establishment for the collection and safe-keeping of the revenue, and place it under the direction of ten or twelve directors, and christen it an office of discount and deposit, or of collection and payment, as you like best? And can you not, when you have thus created it, give to the directors a power, which perhaps they would have without your grant, to receive and keep the cash of those who choose to place it with them and to loan them money at the legal rate of interest, and in some places, as at New York, at nearly fifteen per cent
1. 'My folks are staunch Catholics and now they're demanding their expected grandchild to be christened and brought up a Catholic
2. He describes the smell, which he has christened Marmite, as 'bloody terrible', and he confidently predicts that it will have tremendous implications for a number of industries
3. wrist to keep away the evil spirits until she was properly christened
4. Chantal was christened in the church that I had met Anne in and of which I attended
5. was christened on December 22nd, 2002
6. She gave birth to a little girl who was christened Bernadette
7. Bridget had bought a black doll for Sarah that Christmas whom she christened Clara for her
8. He christened it the Fairy Tree
9. "Which one? We haven't christened the other room
10. "This is one hell of a bathroom, but we haven't christened it
11. Nine months to the day, Elizabeth gave birth (much to her own surprise, as she was past the child-bearing stage of her life!) to a beautiful girl-child, christened as per family Matriarchal-tradition, Marianne Collett – sans the Arbuthnot surname!
12. He loved to fly his lighter-than-air blimp, christened "The Independence" and decorated with an American flag motif
13. ” They christened him Aureliano and with his mother’s last name, since the law did not permit a person to bear his father’s name until he had recognized him
14. round object, the one they had christened the ‘UFO’, had to
15. his own inimitable way he had christened the plan quite inappropriately, but
16. It’s currently christened the Reson, a pirate ship under the command of Bliss Amans, an Andorian collector of rare animals and a slave trader
17. “What’s the first ship to be christened?” McCoy asked, changing the subject
18. Donald was christened using Barbara’s maiden name, so it is not necessary to include the father’s name on a birth certificate
19. Immediately, one of the comedians in the team had christened him ‘bottom gun,’ and from thenceforward he had been known as ‘Bottom’ for short
20. running of Chateau Smith-Mouzon (the name we christened the house with almost 13
21. Barnes, adjusting her eyeglasses more comfortably on her nose, 'didn't seem to remember that we would ever grow old, for we weren't even christened Katharine and Dorothy, to which we might have reverted when we ceased being girls, but we were Kitty and Dolly from the very beginning, and actually in that condition came away from the font
22. None of the children lived long enough to meet the next brother, and they were steadily christened Bernhard, after a father apparently thirsting to perpetuate his name
23. 'He was christened after Ambrose,' said his mother,--' one of the Early Fathers, as no doubt you know
24. The school children were still learning about Bismarck's birthday, the schoolmaster was still laboriously computing attendances and endeavouring to obey the difficult law which commanded him to cane the absent, the elders of the church were still refusing to repair the steeple in time, the confirmation class was still meeting explanations and exhortations with thick inattention, the ecclesiastical authorities were still demanding detailed reports of progress when there was not and could not be progress, couples were still forgetting marriage until the last hurried moment and then demanding it with insistent cries, infants were still being hastily christened before the same neglects that killed those other infants who else might have been their proud and happy grandparents carried them off, and peasants were still slinking away at the bare mention of intelligence and manure
25. "I was christened after my mother," said Priscilla gently; and this was strictly true, for the deceased Grand Duchess had also been Priscilla
26. The local rag had an article on that ‘mad bitch’ with the knife, as they so affectionately christened her, and one of the nationals ran a story on ‘Drug dealer attacked by one his victims’
27. One boy we christened that very night “Cheeseburger” couldn’t muster the courage or the spring for level three so he stayed behind and kept our flank protected on level two
28. or being christened as a child would save you, in fact
29. "What he was christened
30. Brooke looked so strong and sensible and kind that the girls christened him `Mr
31. Laurie had christened it, saying it was highly appropriate to the gentle lovers whòwent on together like a pair of turtledoves, with first a bill and then a coo'
32. He was christened Linton, and, from the first, she reported him to be an ailing, peevish creature
33. he should have christened his ship the Argonaut
34. Young hopeful will be christened Mortimer Edward after the influential third cousin of Mr Purefoy in the Treasury Remembrancer's office, Dublin Castle
35. JOHN CONSTABLE’S baby daughter was christened in the cathedral by Prior Godwyn
36. Godwyn had recently christened the child Gerald, after its grandfather, who stood nearby with the grandmother, Maud
37. One had been christened John, and the other Steven
38. christened in the same year
39. Moreover, there was something personal, exciting about a town that was born—or at least christened—the same year she was christened
40. the long-past day when her doting father had fastened his nickname upon her, because Aunt Pittypat had been christened Sarah Jane Hamilton sixty years before, but since
41. Being born on that day and being christened “Lillian” was the next best thing to being “A Boy Named Sue
42. My eyes were fixed on a comic until every story was memorized or, if I was by the window, until every sheep in the fields was counted and christened
43. This caused some secret envy among christened
44. This was the place to which I’d been taken as an infant to be christened
45. It is this ratio of stock market value to replacement value that Tobin christened q
46. Colleen Galaher was christened Colin Galaher
47. was to be christened; and when all was finished he asked, "What ought to be done to one who takes another out of a bed and throws her into the river?" "Nothing could be more proper," said the old woman, "than to put such a one into a cask, stuck round with nails, and to roll it down the hill into the water
48. He was christened Linton, and, from the first, she reported him to be an
49. 'I'm going to have him christened next Sunday
50. ‘I’m going to have him christened next Sunday
1. 'I think the simplest way to repair the rift would be to tell her you would be delighted if she would arrange a formal family christening ceremony
2. Although I cannot claim responsibility for this innovation, I remember raising the possibility in the (then) recently created Ministers’ Forum (a newsletter for ministers) in 1979 [15] that ministers who felt that they could not offer full baptism to children of non-members, might offer a service of dedication (sometimes known as a “dry christening”) instead
3. "I had cops at my grand daughter’s christening
4. without first christening me”
5. Three months later as they gathered at the church for Rosins’ christening Hamish had another surprise, sitting in the front row of the church sat his Mother Rose
6. Grace sang a beautiful rendition of ‘Jesus Loves Me’ at the christening
7. the holidays and made an appearance at the church for the christening, was there with his
8. celebration time, it could be family celebrations, engagements, weddings, graduations, or renewed health, christening, special anniversaries, a birth possibly physical, or it could be the birth of a project
9. The next main event of that year for the family close at hand was the birth and christening of Joe’s brother Brian’s son who was named Cormac
10. The Christening that followed was a pleasant family affair and the new infant was doted upon, by all of them
11. “You’ll have to come to the Christening,” he told both of them
12. She and Matthew were invited to the Christening of the Company Directors son
13. On the day of their christening Amaranta put bracelets on them with their respective names and dressed them in different colored clothing marked with each one’s initials, but when they began to go to school they decided to exchange clothing and bracelets and call each other by opposite names
14. After the christening of his baby brother in church, Jason sobbed all the way home in the back seat of the car
15. money floated gently down like butterflies in the wind, christening a
16. “This time it was my three year old niece, Kendall, who had the honor of Christening the kennel
17. Would he stand there all day, they wondered, with that really most improperly suggestive cake, so very like a christening cake? One or two of them sat down squarely on the sofas behind months-old magazines round whose edges they peeped, making it clear to the unhappy man that they, at least, intended to stay there; and they all coughed a little every now and then in the way a waiting congregation coughs in church
18. all at a christening a few years ago, and
19. we were all at a christening a few years ago, and
20. Local 4-H clubs had spent most of the week christening the route with fall decorations
21. A fine person he would be to show anyone up! It must be noted, by the way, that Pyotr Petrovitch had during those ten days eagerly accepted the strangest praise from Andrey Semyonovitch; he had not protested, for instance, when Andrey Semyonovitch belauded him for being ready to contribute to the establishment of the new "commune," or to abstain from christening his future children, or to acquiesce if Dounia were to take a lover a month after marriage, and so on
22. by christening, marrying and burying them, charging a lot less than the monks at the cathedral
23. The sauerkraut christening of the Husky Clipper is described in Newell (137)
24. In celebration of his eighty years, Dad had brought out the foldaway gazebo we had used for Thomas’s christening, which flapped, mossy and listless, at the end of the garden where, through the open door that led to the back alley, a succession of neighbours popped in and out, bringing cake or good wishes
25. She was not asleep, she was talking gently with her mother, making plans about the christening
26. In the years that followed that second christening, many changes had taken place in her that made two tiny feet, inadequate to her weight, and a tendency to prattle happily and aimlessly
27. The calmness which had possessed Tess since the christening remained with her in the infant's loss
28. Tess, who mused on the christening a good deal, wondered if it were doctrinally sufficient to secure a Christian burial for the child
29. Dimly, I recollected that Women at the Start of Travail are said to be seiz’d with great Vigour, that some compleat entire Tapestries, and others sew Christening Gowns, with intricate Embroideries, whilst others are seiz’d with a Passion to sweep Floors, clean Grates, bake dozens of Pyes, and roast Legs o’ Mutton!
30. Presently up came the clerk; and when he saw his master, the parson, running after the three girls, he was greatly surprised, and said, "Hollo! hollo! your reverence! whither so fast! There is a christening to-day
31. This occurred to him suddenly, at the christening of the first freshwater vessel built in the local shipyards, which was also the first official occasion at which Florentino Ariza, as First Vice President of the R
32. When her time had come, God answered their prayers at last, and sent them a son, and for the first time Maxim Ivanovitch became glad ; he gave alms freely, and forgave many debts, and invited the whole town to the christening
33. Grigory was so crushed by this, that he was not only silent till the day of the christening, but kept away in the garden
34. The third day was fixed for christening the baby: mean-time Grigory had reached a conclusion
35. “Well, my opinion is,” Smerdyakov began suddenly and unexpectedly in a loud voice, “that if that laudable soldier's exploit was so very great there would have been, to my thinking, no sin in it if he had on such an emergency renounced, so to speak, the name of Christ and his own christening, to save by that same his life, for good deeds, by which, in the course of years to expiate his cowardice
36. And if I have already been discharged, in what manner and with what sort of justice can I be held responsible as a Christian in the other world for having denied Christ, when, through the very thought alone, before denying Him I had been relieved from my christening? If I'm no longer a Christian, then I can't renounce Christ, for I've nothing then to renounce
37. She would never, for instance, have stayed away from a baby's christening, and always put on a green silk dress with a train and adorned her chignon with curls and ringlets for such events, though at other times she positively revelled in slovenliness
38. To-day there was a christening
39. The christening of the first child of Count L
40. Nothing must be said against authority, even against that of the pope, and the play culminates in the pomp and parade of the christening of the infant Elizabeth! Such is Shakespeare's conception of history! Who could guess from reading these English historical plays that throughout the period which they cover English freedom was growing, that justice and the rights of man were asserting themselves, while despotism was gradually curbed and limited? This is the one great glory of English history, exhibiting itself at Runnymede, reflected in Wyclif and John Ball and Wat Tyler, and shining dimly in the birth of a national church under the eighth Henry
41. “When is the christening?”
42. The next day the godmother and godfather came; the child was christened, but directly after the christening the godfather disappeared
1. MANY Christens may be surprised and thrilled to learn of who Christ is (not was!)