Kate, the oldnickname for "Exceptional Ability" slipping out before she thought.
Tom, looking up into his face and smiling as she gave him the nickname conferred on him by Langridge.
The nicknameof the heathen corresponded to the self-consciousness of the Christians (see Aristides, Apol).
Daniele da Volterra to patch draperies on to some of them, with Michael Angelo’s consent, whereby Daniele obtained the nickname of Il Braghettone, or the breeches-maker.
She, however, mistaking the name, invited the late Lord Clonmel, a jovial sportsman known to his friends by the nickname of 'Old Sherry.
Of course he was not a good-tempered man, or he would not have justified hisnickname of Red Precipitate, but he spared the rod with me, and failed to keep me in order.
Mr. Scully was a very amusing man, and in the House of Commons he used to go by the nickname of 'old Skull.
He was as brave as a lion; and if his red beard gained him the nickname of 'Rufus,' the Red Viceroy was as fearless as though his life were absolutely secure, instead of depending wholly on the vigilance of those surrounding him.
The House roared with laughter, and the nickname "Gentle Shepherd" clung to Grenville for life.
The idiot appeared delighted, for there was no doubt that he thought more of his nickname than he did of his dress, and the next day he made his appearance in the village square without his petticoats and dressed as a man.
On the occasion of the great fire in Whitehall (1698) Cutts, at the head of the Coldstreams, earned afresh the honourable nickname of "the Salamander.
On account of the merciless severity with which the fugitives were treated, Cumberland received the nickname of the "Butcher.
And indeed he was anything but a brute this good Signor Angelo, whom owing to a natural tonsure--a rim of black hair still circling his smooth bald head--his friends were wont to nickname Fra Angelico.
An idiot girl, who wandered about the streets and was known to the whole town by the nickname of Lizaveta Smerdyastchaya (Stinking Lizaveta), had got into the bath-house and had just given birth to a child.
Ilusha had been defending his father when the schoolboys jeered at him, shouting the nickname “wisp of tow.
That’s the nickname they give to my beard, the schoolboys most of all.
The author once alludes to the nickname of Long Will bestowed upon him from his tallness of stature--just as the poet Gascoigne was familiarly called Long George.
Lapp is almost certainly a nickname imposed by foreigners, although some of the Lapps apply it contemptuously to those of their countrymen whom they think to be less civilized than themselves.
He was of the nether Bourkes, and now, as I hear, MacWilliam Euter, and called by the nickname 'Richard in Iron.
In Sicily Ferdinand bombarded the revolted city of Messina (hence his nickname Bomba), and forced it to surrender; and in Naples he made a mock of the constitution.
Masaccio is an unflatteringnickname for Tommaso, and recalls the only personal trait we know of him.
People gave him his nickname “The Lynx” because of his strange habits.
But if they had given him a nickname like that, by hell, they should be made to respect it and to recognise the fact that he did honour to the name, for he would show them that he was a Lynx who could go on when other men failed.
As I write, there is a correspondence going on in the Nottingham papers as to the origin of the nickname Bendigo, borne by a local bruiser and evangelist.
Jan Kees, John Cornelius, supposed to have been a nicknamefor early Dutch colonists.
Adjutant, the nickname of the solemn Indian stork, is clearly due to Mr Atkins, and the secretary bird is so named because some of his head feathers suggest a quill pen behind an ear.
Both devoted themselves with enthusiasm to psalmody, insomuch that "psalm-singers" was their nickname in both countries.
One remembers a nickname and forgets all it never used to mean.
Here is an episode explaining a nickname that Phinuit habitually applied to Sir Oliver (Pr.
