To this party was added, rather to my surprise, my Lord Highgate, who under the sobriquet of Jack Belsize has been presented to the reader of this history.
He was so cocksure of all his own views that he would never admit the possibility of being wrong, which gained for him the sobriquet of the Obstinate Minister.
The latter used to bring his friends hither to take wine; and as he personally was incapacitated by a very few cups, and was, moreover, well stricken in years, he gave himself thesobriquet of the Old Drunkard.
Great George), the sobriquetgiven to Giorgio Barbarella, one of the early masters of the Venetian school, born near Castelfranco, in the NE.
Bridge smiled as he looked at the clear eyes, the oval face, and the fine, sensitive mouth and thought of the youth's claim to the crime battered sobriquet of The Oskaloosa Kid.
The youth reminded him in some ways of members of a Sunday school which had flourished in the dim vistas of his past when, as an ordained minister of the Gospel, he had earned the sobriquet which now identified him.
The words were pronounced with no particular emphasis; in fact, very much as though both sobriquet and calling were household words, and sufficiently familiar in all men's mouths.
The speaker was plainly no other than the rascal who called himself Sundown; the hawkers heard the sobriquet on the lips of the other masked man, and their glances met.
A sobriquet which has universally obtained in a man-of-war.
A sobriquetfor a lieutenant, in allusion to his former uniform.
The sobriquet of the English stationed or resident in Bengal, the literal meaning being, "Who is there?
A qualified person who (with his mates) is employed on board ship in making, repairing, or altering the sails; whence he usually derives the familiar sobriquet of sails.
He was tried and condemned to imprisonment in the fortress of Ham, from which he escaped in due time, having earned for himself during long years the sobriquet of "the madman of Boulogne.
Both here and in Germany this Goosefoot is used for feeding poultry, and it has hence acquired the sobriquet of Fat-hen.
In France the sobriquet herbe du seige, given to this plant, is said to have been derived from its famous use in healing all sorts of wounds during the long siege of Rochelle under Louis XIII.
Leeks were so highly esteemed by the Emperor Nero, that his subjects gave him the sobriquet of "Porrophagus.
It became the delight of my husband and the officers to chaff me about “Old Nutriment,” for such was the sobriquetthey gave him.
My sobriquet of “the old lady” dated back to the first days of my married life.
It was the Nabob's sobriquetat Tunis, the label of his fortune, so to speak.
How fully they understood the noble sobriquet of "My Conscience," which the Palais de Justice bestowed upon him, and which suited him so well with his great height and his wooden gestures!
His voice was low, and so musical as to fasten upon him the sobriquet of the “silver-tongued orator.
It seems so, according to our mysterious friend, whom I believe most firmly to be the notorious thief known by the Italian sobriquet of Il Passero--The Sparrow.
He is marvellous, and has indeed well earned his sobriquet 'Il Passero.
After this great service Macdonald's name became famous in England and Scotland, the popular sobriquet of "Fighting Mac" testifying the interest aroused in the public mind by his career and his soldierly personality.
This action advanced McClellan considerably in popular estimation and led to the bestowal upon him, by some enthusiast, of the sobriquet "the Young Napoleon.
He knew Peyrade, and received from Lenoir's old pupil the significant sobriquet of "Philosopher.
A concert was given at Exeter Hall last evening by Miss Greenfield, the American vocalist, better known in this country under the sobriquetof the 'Black Swan.
Miss Elizabeth Greenfield, better known in America as the "Black Swan," under which sobriquet she is also about to be presented to the British public.
How could a sobriquet become the centre of a regular religious system?
It was in this period that he received the sobriquet "Buffalo Bill.
It further told that Hugh Mayhew was known in the mines as a desperado, whose cruel deeds had gained for him the sobriquet of Black-heart Bill.
Scourge of the Jews," sobriquet of John of Capistrano, 260.
In Jewish circles he was remembered by the well-earned sobriquet of "The Calumniator" (Megadef).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sobriquet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: byword; cognomen; diminutive; handle; label; name; nickname
