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One member of the club, who asked not to be named, said that the sobriquet was a way of— British Blogs
Family names, we must recollect, are but inherited nicknames; and if the sobriquet were applicable to the ancestor, it is most likely applicable to the descendant also.— Lay Morals
In a country where the sobriquet is usually the only name by which it is courteous or safe to address a man, and where it is invariably apt, few men are accorded two.— Laramie Holds the Range
Consequently a sobriquet was attached to O'Brien of which he by no means approved, and from that day we always called Mrs. Talboys— Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners)
Having made these preliminary arrangements, Buzzing Ben -- for the sobriquet was applied to him in this form quite as often as in the other -- next turned his attention to the velvet-like covering of the grassy glade.— Oak Openings
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