Crispus

She had knowledge of the clarinet, but more importantly she had a closet full of good-as-new sound equipment that had been abandoned by a son who once had led a somewhat successful local rock band that went by the name of Crispus Attucks.

Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

She had knowledge of the clarinet, but more importantly she had a closet full of good-as-new sound equipment that had been abandoned by a son who once had led a somewhat successful local rock band that went by the name of Crispus Attucks.

Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

For if you remember, he speaks about baptism, in the first chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, in a precisely similar tone and for precisely the same reason, when he says, in effect, 'I baptized Crispus and Gaius and the household of Stephanas, and I think these are all.

Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren 1868

LAMB: I grew up, by the way, near a high school called Crispus

The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory & the American Revolution 1999

Next morning she went from the cubiculum early, and, calling Crispus to the garden summer-house, covered with ivy and withered vines, opened her whole soul to him, imploring him at the same time to let her leave Miriam's house, since she could not trust herself longer, and could not overcome her heart's love for Vinicius.

Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

I then called Crispus privately, and ordered him to make the soldier that kept him drunk, and to run away to the king.

The Life of Flavius Josephus Flavius Josephus 1709

For the record, it was Geoff Johns who first proposed the idea of Crispus becoming the new host of the Spectre.

IGN Comics 2008

He pictured the Negro choosing slavery rather than extinction; recalled Crispus Attucks shedding his blood at the beginning of the American Revolution, that white Americans might be free, while black Americans remained in slavery; rehearsed the conduct of the Negroes with Jackson at New Orleans; drew a vivid and pathetic picture of the Southern slaves protecting and supporting the families of their masters while the latter were fighting to perpetuate black slavery; recounted the bravery of coloured troops at Port Hudson and Forts Wagner and Pillow, and praised the heroism of the black regiments that stormed El Caney and Santiago to give freedom to the enslaved people of Cuba, forgetting, for the time being, the unjust discrimination that law and custom make against them in their own country.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography 1901

My Brussels sprouts 'Crispus' F1 (DT Brown) are also clubroot resistant) and shaping up beautifully.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

I believe the new Spectre is Crispus Allen from the Batman line, most notably Gotham Central.

Spectre Cartoon Images Released » DVDs Worth Watching 2010