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I betcha her family-name is Navarro, and she feels that all of these actions are family-related. datingjesus

Someone found this note in a library book « Dating Jesus 2009

The hope of a better life arrests us and comforts us; or else it is the valour of our sons or the future glory of our family-name, or escape from the evils of this life or from the vengeance menacing those who are causing our death.

Look, Over There! « So Many Books 2005

Do you mind tohat a stress he lays now-and-then on the family-name

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

“Poor Osmond, with his old curtains and crucifixes!” the Countess Gemini exclaimed: she appeared to call her brother only by his family-name.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

The family-name appears to have originally been St. André; and this was the style of the famous dancing-master who gave to the courtiers of Charles II. their graceful motions.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

His name was my family-name; he was tall and youthful, like my Captain.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

The lateral branches of the family-tree never flourished, and one after another came to an end, till about forty years ago the remnant of the family-blood and the family-name was centred in two cousins, a young man and a girl.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

When the lad was ten the father fled from Geneva to escape the penalty of a foolish brawl, and never again saw the son who was to rescue the family-name from oblivion.

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

Yet our family-name is Moulton Barrett, and my brothers reproach me sometimes for sacrificing the governorship of an old town in Norfolk with a little honourable verdigris from the Heralds 'Office.

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898

An elder brother may address a younger brother by his name or family-name or as friend, but a younger brother should say to an elder, Sir, or

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896