"Rebaptize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to christen the Solemn League and Covenant "the constellation on the back of Aries," because most of the signers could only make their marks on the little bits of sheepskin circulated for that purpose. It was quite lively to rebaptize Rundway Down as Run-away-down, after a royal victory, and to remark how Hazlerig's regiment of "lobsters" turned to crabs, on that occasion, and crawled backwards. But all these pleasant follies became whips to scourge them, at last,—shifting suddenly into very ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 20, June, 1859 • Various
... epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as ...
— Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Nietzsche |
