by-name

• “You could perhaps give a similar by-name to the ancestral Emrys of Lyonesse - I assume he successfully hammered his enemies?”

  The Anglian Tower, York

• “Dotomi started out with an innovative, opt-in system that would have delivered personal, by-name messages through ad-banner space by recognizing cookies, but it was too innovative for its time.”

  Esther Dyson: Release 0.9: Disclosure 2.0

• “This dexterity had won him a reputation in that part of the country; and among the many children employed in these dangerous affairs, he passed under the by-name of Heathercat.”

  Lay Morals

• “The hand and heart of her sister Mary were yet unengaged, although she bore the by-name among her friends of the “Jessamy Bride.””

  The Life of Oliver Goldsmith

• “And finally and I can't remember where I first saw this so thanks in absentia of by-name thanks, Kelly Jane Torrance has a nice examination of where the short story is, quoting its admirers and forecasting its renaissance.”

  shoe tree, ladies of the WNBA, transitory Venus, & etc.

• “The mage had found his by-name, a thane and lord to serve, and, though he wasn™t looking for one, a home.”

  Stormblade

• “For long afterwards the unit possessed the proud by-name of "The Assaye Regiment.”

  The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918

• “Hairy Grozers' -- that was a by-name o 'the Gairner's -- in at Winton's shop door.”

  My Man Sandy

• “His companions began to call him "The Big-un" and the by-name still clings to him.”

  Sergeant York And His People

• “Gullinhjalti" would then be a by-name, a pet-name, for Skofnung, derived from its golden hilt.”

  The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The Scandinavian Countries

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