godson

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• Darren Baker says that Jackson, a Cal assistant and Dusty’s godson, helped him slip away from his dad’s long shadow.

• As for my godson, I completely adored him—just like every other white lady who ever saw him.

• When my godson Trey was a toddler growing up in Brooklyn, every white woman who saw him fell in love with him.

• Wonderful news from the British think tank Policy Exchange: They have appointed the brilliant Dean Godson as their new director.

• They included both William Davenant, a godson of Shakespeare and Sir John Suckling, the inventor of the card game cribbage.

• My godson and I wrote a note of congratulations and slipped it under her door.

• Mr. Godson opposed the measure; and Mr. Charles Buller delivered a clever speech in its support.

• President de Thou paid his godson a visit during which he showed himself most fatherly.

• "I should not be surprised at it—with him," Godson answered.

• I gave it also to my godson, a little rascal who would be about your age now, and whom I have sought in vain in Paris.

• And the next morning the old man set out in his carriage with his dear godson.