Meanings of great namesake in English

But Newton Overholt did not at all resemble his great namesake.

In other words, the gipsies had gone, and, like his great namesake, Alexander, Magnus mourned.

The Philosopher was Hartley Coleridge, aged three, so called after his great namesake, David Hartley.

Is he as wise yet as his great namesake?

Cesare Garelli was something, to her, infinitely more interesting than his great namesake ever had been.

The Scotch maid who took care of little Washington Irving made up her mind to introduce the boy to his great namesake.

Perhaps, however, the coin will do as much as its great namesake, and achieve for us a Marengo in the war with fate.

Meantime Hannibal, reassured, was regal again, and marched down the marble hall with something like the feeling and bearing of his great namesake.

For, as I interpret it, my great namesake has courteously made way for me, in order that I may go far beyond him.

I have always believed that Satan made the spirit of Dinnie's house, orthodox and severe though it was, almost kindly toward his great namesake.

Moses Pyne being, like his great namesake, a meek man, sympathised with the others, but said nothing about himself, though his looks betrayed him.

Like his greater namesake, he had had two wives.

It was night ere the two Plinies appeared towing Mike, as their great namesakes of antiquity might have brought in a Carthaginian galley, in triumph.

'It is true,' replied Walstein, 'I would rather err with my great namesake and Napoleon than share the orthodoxy of ordinary mortality.'