name
name (nām)
noun
- a word or phrase by which a person, thing, or class of things is known, called, or spoken to or of; appellation; title
- a word or words expressing some quality considered characteristic or descriptive of a person or thing, often showing approval or disapproval; epithet
- the sacred designation of a deity His ineffable name
- fame, reputation, or character a good name
- good reputation
- a family or clan the last of his name
- appearance only, not reality; semblance chief in name only
- a distinguished or famous person the greatest name in science
Etymology: ME < OE nama, akin to Ger name < IE base *(o)nomṇ > L nomen, Gr onoma, onyma
adjective
- ☆ having a good reputation; well-known a name brand
- carrying a name a name tag
transitive verb named, nam′·ing
- to give a name or title to; entitle; style
- to designate, mention, or refer to by name
- to identify by the right name name all the oceans
- to nominate or appoint to a post, situation, or office
- to set or fix; specify (a date, price, etc.)
- to speak about; mention
call names
to speak of or to in an abusive manner
in the name of
- in appeal or reference to
- by the authority of; as the representative of
- as belonging to
know only by name
to be familiar with the name of but not know personally
name names
to identify specific persons, esp. as doing wrong
to one's name
belonging to one
name
n.
A title
proper name, Christian name, given name, cognomen, appellation, designation, first name, family name, compellation, title, prenomen, denomination, surname, agnomen, agname, style, sign, patronymic, matronymic, eponym*, moniker*, handle*; see also signature.Reputation
An epithet
nickname, pen name, pseudonym, sobriquet, stage name, nom de plume, nom de guerre (both French), pet name, fictitious name; see also alias. see also curse 1, insult.Insulting names include: devil, imbecile, idiot, blackguard, rat, skunk, dog, pig, fool, moron, punk, brute, cochon, canaille (both French), ladrón, galopin (both Spanish), Schweinhund, Schweinigel, Lausejunge, Lausehund (all German); bum*, boob*, oaf*, goon*, sourpuss*, dumb Dora*, specks*, four-eyes*, skinny*, fatty*, windbag*, buttinski*, meshugana*, nerd*, dork*, doofus*, jerk*, louse*, schmuck*, sap*, sleaze*, creep*, wimp*, weenie*, wuss*, dweeb*, geek*, turkey*, bimbo*, pinhead*, dingbat*, ditz*, airhead*, nitwit*, klutz*, bonehead*, musclehead*;
A famous person
star, hero, lion, person of renown, celeb*, headline attraction*, blue-booker*, headliner*; see also celebrity 2, personage 2.
call names
in the name of
know only by name
to one's name
name
v.
To give a name
call, christen, baptize, style, term, label, identify, provide with nomenclature, classify, denominate, designate, title, entitle, nickname, characterize, label, ticket, dub*, pin a moniker on*, put the tag on*, give a handle*; see also describe, define.To indicate by name
refer to, specify, signify, denote, single out, mark, suggest, connote, point to, note, remark, index, list, cite; see also mention, refer 2.To appoint
Possessives
- author: Authors ' names: first name in full, other initial(s ), family name in full.
Converse of object
- register: We can register.uk domain names on your behalf.
- enter: Enter the name of a mail folder in the box provided.
- give: In June 2004, I was finally given a name for my condition - PCOS.
- bear: A substantial stone bridge, bearing the name of Coronation Bridge, was erected across the Wear in front of Newhouse in 1839.
- choose: Choose a name for the campaign, a catchy one.
- specify: AuthName: specify the name you want to assign to the protected area.
Adjective modifier
- maiden: When searching for a birth or marriage, remember to use the maiden name for women.
- same: Based on the popular BBC Schools television series of the same name.
- full: The company's full name must appear in a legible form at all business premises.
- big: Dave Smith won the clash of the 2 big names beating John McLarty in 4 sets.
- real: Here's a few we came up with, lets see if you can all work out the real names.
Modifies a noun
- registration: More information about domain name registration is available on the online support website.
- availability: Hong Kong company incorporation normally takes 7 to 10 working days. Search name availability for your Hong Kong company.
- badge: Impress 3000 Engraved only name badges to put a name to a face.
Noun used with modifier
- domain: Can I just a buy domain name without web hosting?
- brand: All the gifts used in our cakes are of the highest quality and we use top brand names where applicable.
- household: Birthday Card Gallery Fault Gallery Updates Let's face it, I'm only a household name in my own home.
- file: The path or file name for partial path and file name is invalid.
- user: Put your user name in the User Name field.
No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free, More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
He lifted up his head a little, and quickly said,'Adsum!' and fell back He, whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered to his name, and stood in the presence of The Master.
'A chilli,'said Rebecca, gasping,'Oh, yes!' She thought a chilli wassomething cool, asitsname imported, and was served with some.'How fresh and green they look,'she said, and put one into her mouth. It was hotter than the curry; flesh and blood could bear it no longer. She laid down her fork.'Water, for Heaven's sake, water!'she cried.
Bless the L,O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.Bless the L,O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies;Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name.
Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And hewhistled, andshouted, and called thembyname; 'Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall! Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!'
Ful craftier to pley she was Than Athalus, that made the game First of the ches, so was his name.
Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the L: we have blessed you out of the house of the L.
I am the love that dare not speak its name.
Death is a name for beauty not in use.
Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
The puritanical potentialities of sciencehavenever been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchicallyorganized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency'. The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.
Oh Happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts th'eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
A place as kind as it isgreen, the greenest place I've never seen. Every name is a tune.
'Is your maid called Florence?' 'Her name is Florinda.' 'What an extraordinary name to give a maid!' 'I did not give it to her; she arrived in my service already christened'.'What I mean is,'said Mrs Riversedge,'that when Iget maids with unsuitable names I call them Jane; they soon get used to it.' 'An excellent plan,'said theaunt of Clovis coldly; 'unfortunately I have got used to being called Jane myself. It happens to be my name.'
The Cross alone has flown the wave. But since the Cross sank, much that's warped and cracked Has followed in its name, has heaped its grave.
'Cause some make forfeit of their name, And slave themselves to man's desire; Shall the sex free From guilt, damn'd to the bondage be?
And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.
The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want. He makes me down to lie In pastures green: he leadeth me the quiet waters by. My soul he doth restore again: and me to walk doth make Within the paths of righteousness, ev'n for his own name's sake. Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, yet will I fear no ill: For thou art with me; and thy rod and staff me comfort still.
I bequeath my soul to God For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age.
Forth in thy name,O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue. Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think or speak or do.
O Freedom, what liberties are taken in thy name!
Je suis ne¤ pour te conna|"tre Pour te nommer Liberte¤ . I was born to know you To give you your name: Freedom.
A good name is seldom got by giving it one's self.
And a wery good name it isöonly one I know, that ain't got a nickname to it. 266
Immortal, invisible,God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most blesse' d, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, Almighty, victorious,Thy great name we praise.
There was a girl in our town, Silk an'satin was her gown, Silk an'satin, gold an' velvet, Guess her name, three times I've telled it.
Behold,I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.
I call him Jordan and it will do. He has no other name before or after.What was there to call him, fished as he was from the stinkingThames? A child can't be called Thames, no and not Nile either, for all his likeness to Moses.But I wanted to give hima river name, a name not bound to anything, just as the waters aren't bound to anything.
He that is without name, without friends, without coin, without country, is still at least a man; and he that has all these is no more.
Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste. I've been around for a long, long year Stole many a man's soul and faith. And I was around when Jesus Christ Had his moments of doubt and pain, Made damn sure that Pilate Washed his hands and sealed his fate. Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name But what's puzzling you Is the nature of my game.
But if ye shall at all turn from following me Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and thishouse, which Ihavehallowed formy name, will Icast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.
O L our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy gloryabove the heavens.Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, council, governments, Myself not least, but honoured of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windyTroy. I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.
Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular name.
There have been many crimes committed in the name of duty and obedienceömany more than in the name of dissent.
In the name of the Constitution,Cromwell took up arms, executed the king, dissolved Parliament, imprisoned some, and beheaded others.
: I think Jack, for instance, a charming name. :Jack? No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations I have known several Jacks, and theyall, without exception, weremore than usually plain. Besides,Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment's solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.
Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew; it is the other.
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: thosethatthougavest me Ihave kept, and noneof them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
In reality, killing time Is only the name for another of the multifarious ways By whichTime kills us.
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,öand of obstinacy in a bad one.
Therefore with Angels, and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name; evermore praising thee, and saying: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory: Glory be to thee,O Lord most High. Amen.
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of. There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Almighty God, unto whomall hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever, And famine grew, and locusts came; Great is the hand that holds dominion over Man by a scribbled name.
When a man of my name is in power, he must do great things.
Marrying left your maiden name disused.
You mentioned yournameasif Ishould recogniseit, but I assure you that, beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
Chacun se dit ami; mais fol qui s'y repose: Rien n'est plus commun que ce nom, Rien n'est plus rare que la chose. Everyone calls himself a friend; foolish is he who believes it: Nothing is more common than the name friend, And nothing is more rare than the real thing.
Who knows who his grandfather is, much less his name?
Nobody cares much at heart about Titian; only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he isgreater than they.
My name hasgotten to be a household wordöat least in certain households. I think there are now people who know my name, but don't know what Ido.I'm famous for being famous.
My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
My name is on the building.
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
While I cannot take time off to name all the men in the State Department whohavebeennamedasmembers of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party, and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.
Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166
No, I never heard nothing about it, but when they name any disease after two guys, it's got to be terrible!
Experience isthename everyonegivestotheir mistakes.
Here Vaughan lies dead, whose name flows on for ever Through pastures of the spirit washed with dew And starlit with eternities unknown.
Our name for problems is significant.We call them headaches.You take a powder and theyare gone.
This day my country was confirmed to me under the great seal of England, with large powers and privileges, by thename of Pennsylvania; anametheking wouldgive it in honor of my father.
Speak out, sir, and do not Maister or Campbell meömy foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor!
Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also called No-more,Too-late, Farewell.
Ye say, theyall have passed away, That noble race and brave, That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That 'mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters, Ye may not wash it out.
I reside at Table Mountain, and my name isTruthful James; I am not up to small deceit or any sinful games.
Why should not the name of an Australian be equal to that of a Britonto that of a citizen of the proudest country under the sun? Make yourselves a united people, appear before the world as one, and the dream of going 'home' will die away.
The moment that the very name of Ireland ismentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots.
Alas! My dear sir, the very name of pictures produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.Painting has been a smiling mistresstomany, but shehasbeenacrueljilttome.
Nothing has conduced more to shake that decent respect for the living symbol of thestatethat goes by the name of royalty than the ever-recurring rattle of the money box.
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, with the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear: 'A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.'
And God spake all these words, saying,Iamthe L thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that isinheaven above, or that isin the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the L thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thoushalt nottakethename of the L thy God invain; for the L will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember thesabbath day, to keep it holy. Six daysthou shalt labour and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the L thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the L made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the L blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long uponthelandwhichtheL thy Godgiveththee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Et si uxoris nomen sanctius ac validius videtur, dulcius mihi semper exstitit amic× vocabulum; aut si non indigneris, concubin× vel scorti. Ifthename of wifeseemsmore blessed or more binding, always sweeter to me will be the word lover, or if I may, concubine or whore.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son isgiven: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,Counseller,The mighty God, The everlasting Father,The Prince of Peace.Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, uponthethrone of David, and uponhis kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the L of hosts will perform this.
I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washe' d it away; Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. 'Vain man,'said she,'that doest in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise, For I my self shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipe' d out likewise.' 'Not so,'quod I,'let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where when as death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.'
Once they heard someone call for 'Snooks'.'I always thought that name was invented by novelists,'said Miss Winchelsea.'Fancy! Snooks. I wonder which is Mr. Snooks?' Finally they picked out a stout and resolute little man in a large check suit.'If he isn't Snooks, he ought to be,'said Miss Winchelsea.
Here lies, bowl'd out by Death's unerring ball, A cricketer renowned, by name John Small; But though his name was small, yet great was his fame, For nobly did he play the'noble game'. His life was like his inningsölong and good; Full ninety summers had Death withstood, At length the ninetieth winter cameöwhen (Fate Not leaving him one solitary mate) This last of Hambledonians, old John Small, Gave up his bat and ballöhis leather, wax and all.
If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being intheformof God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Ningue¤ m no cais tem um nome so¤ .Todos te" m tambe¤ m um apelido ou abreviam o nome, ou o aumentam, ou lhe acrescentam qualquer coisa que recorde uma histo¤ ria, uma luta, um amor. No one onthe dockshasjust onename.Everybody has a nickname too, or the name is shortened, or lengthened, or something is added that recalls a tale, a fight, a woman.
My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
Wan swelh w|"p tugendet wider ir art, diu gerne wider ir art bewart ir lop, ir e" re unde ire l|"p, diu ist niwan mit namen ein w|"p und ist ein man mit muote. When a woman grows in virtue despite her nature and gladly preserves the integrity of her honour, her reputation, and her person, she is onlya woman in name: in spirit she is a man.
We must recollectwhat it is we have at stake, what it is we have to contend for. It is for our property, it is for our liberty, it is for our independence, nay for our existence as a nation; it is for our character, it is for our very name as Englishmen, it is for everything dear and valuable to man on this side of the grave.
It is difficult to live up to one's poster When I pass my name in large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms Inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind: Or ravished with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame!
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the L our God.
Stat magni nominis umbra. There stands the shade of a great name.
Si l'on vient a' savoir mon nom, de' s ce moment je me tais. Je connais une femme qui marche assez bien, mais qui boite de' s qu'on la regarde. Once someone wants to know my name, I become quiet. I know a woman who walks rather well, but who limps once she sees someone watching her.
'next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims'and so forth oh say can you see by the dawn's early my country 'tis of centuries come and go and are no more what of it we should worry in every language even deafanddumb they sons acclaim you glorious name by gorry by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
I don't care what you sayabout me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
I bind into myself today The strong name of theTrinity, By invocation of the same TheThree in One and One inThree.
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear!
The terror of his name has stretched itself Wherever there is sun.
To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, orat least thething that had been called by that name for the last four centuries.What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.
Their Name Liveth for Evermore. See Bible108:67.
Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.
Still is thy name in high account, And still thy verse has charms, Sir David Lindesay of the Mount, Lord Lion King-at-arms!
For all the Saints who from their labours rest, WhoThee by faith before the world confess'd, Thy name,OJesu, be for ever blest, Alleluia!
A poet's work To name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
Non nobis, Domine, non nobis; sed nomini tuo da gloriam. Not untous,Lord, not untous; buttothy namegiveglory.
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.
Nought so of love this looser dame did skill, But as a coal to kindle fleshly flame, Giving the bridle to her wanton will, And treading underfoot her honest name.
What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in pile' d stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Ja" leider desn mac nicht ges|"n, Das guot und wertlich e" re Und gotes hulde me" re Zesamene in ein herze komen. It is sadly impossible For wealth and a good name, along with God's favour, to be united in one heart.
And he asked him,What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
It isaswholly wrong toblame Marx for what wasdonein his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his.
With a name like yours you might be any shape, almost.
He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: 'Follow thou me!' and setsustothetaskswhich Hehastofulfil forour time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple,He will reveal Himself inthetoils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience who He is.
For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marksönot that you won or lostö But how you played the game.
'Yossarian? Is that his name? Yossarian? What the hell kind of a name isYossarian?' Lieutenant Scheisskopf had the facts at his finger tips.'It'sYossarian's name, sir,' he explained.
Leonora, Leonora, How the word rollsöLeonoraö Lion-like, in full-mouthed sound, Marching o'er the metric ground With a tawny tread sublime; So your name moves, Leonora, Down my desert rhyme.
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