I asked Adrian if he would stand godfather to our first child.

The choir was properly trained, and Sandy Tipton was to stand godfather.

Who can be got to stand godfather to such a little beggar boy?'

I make bold to beg your Excellency to stand godfather.

And mind, if they live, I'll stand godfather to the babies at the christening.

Coleridge had asked Godwin to stand godfather to his child, which compliment Godwin declined.

The prince of Wales intended that his uncle, the duke of York, should stand godfather.

I am to stand godfather to the... the princess.

When he asks, "Who shall stand godfather at the christening of the wild apples?"

But will you stand godfather?

He warned them that 'one durst not paint the devil over one's door, nor ask him to stand godfather.'

But the reader will find by the subjoined letter that Christine applied to her brother to stand godfather to her third child.

I had it on my tongue just now to ask him to stand godfather-thechild's birthday being the same as his own.

At the end of March a telegram from Hamburg announced the birth of a fine boy, to whom Wilhelm was to stand godfather.

Thereupon Will Stutely, who loved a good jest, spoke up and said: The infant in our household must be christened, and I'll stand godfather.

I am going to stand godfather; I don't like the business; I cannot muster up decorum for these occasions; I shall certainly disgrace the font.