name-father

He has even dared to translate from his mighty name-father; and the voice of fame supports him in his boldness.

Lay Morals 2005

My name-father, David Christie, was chief reader at Clowes 'printing office in Stamford Street, Blackfriars, and month by month as the proofs of _Our Mutual Friend_ were printed, it was his habit to borrow the Dickens manuscript from Mr Day, the overseer of the establishment, and to take it home with him for his own delectation before it reached the hands of the compositors.

Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray

One never-to-be forgotten day, my old name-father, David Christie, lent me a reader's ticket, and I found myself for the first time in that central citadel of books, the Museum

Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray

He'd have been your name-father too if it had been a boy you'd been.

The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892

So it is with at least the majority of George Sand's; so with all those of her first lover and half name-father Sandeau; so with Charles de

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

[119] That the only person at all likely to be "name-father" of this name was not born till a considerable time after his name-child's death would perhaps be worth remarking in another writer.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

Tolbooth, the Heart of Midlothian, a place old in story and name-father to a noble book.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

He has even dared to translate from his mighty name-father; and the voice of fame supports him in his boldness.

Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

The wife of her uncle and name-father, the anatomist Dr. John Hunter, was no other than the famous Mrs. Anne Hunter, a songwright of genius; her poem 'The Son of Alknomook Shall Never Complain' is one of the classics of English song, and the best rendering of the Indian spirit ever condensed into so small a space.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

His name is written in Orderic, but he is hardly so famous even as the name-father of Beaumont, much less as the name-father of Hauteville.

Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857