“Abra was ready ere I called her name;
And though I called another, Abra came.”
Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book ii, line 364; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue.”
Je ne puis rien nommer si ce n'est par son nom ;
J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rollet un fripon.
Satire I, l. 51
Satires (1716)
Saturday Night Live, season 34, episode 5, , quoted in Going Rogue: An American Life, p. 314 http://books.google.com/books?id=5ntDSF3zSAEC&pg=PA314
2014
“The fanatics have another name for fetuses. They call them the pre-born.”
Now we're getting creative. If you accept pre-born, I think you would have to say that, at the moment of birth, we go instantly from being pre-born to being pre-dead. Makes sense, doesn't it? Technically, we're all pre-dead.
Source: Books, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004), p. 162
Bob Saget: That Ain't Right (2007)
I Just Can't Stop Loving You
Bad (1987)
“Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.”
Source: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 12