sobriquets

The author writes: ` ` It was usual in ancient times with the greatest families, and is by all genealogists allowed to be a mighty evidence of dignity, to use certain nicknames which the French call sobriquets ... such as ` the Lame 'or ` the Black.' ...

Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877

At a club social the hostess proposed a game of "sobriquets," offering a prize for the one who would identify the largest number of the assumed names.

Cupology How to Be Entertaining Clara

The author writes: "It was usual in ancient times with the greatest families, and is by all genealogists allowed to be a mighty evidence of dignity, to use certain nicknames which the French call sobriquets ... such as ` the Lame 'or ` the Black.' ...

Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893

A lot of them scream their heads off, when BHO opens his mouth, by seethingly smothering him w/socialisitic sobriquets as his nick name.

Laura Bush talks about life after the White House 2009

ELENA KAGAN NICKNAME CONTEST - There is a noticeable lack of sobriquets in the highest court.

HUFFPOST HILL - MAY 10, 2010 2010

Yes, people like "The Nonplussed Minnesotan Commuter" may scoff, but our local media is already dubbing this storm the "Snowpocalypse," or "Snowmageddon," or "God's Dandruff," or any number of irritatingly hyperbolized sobriquets, and life here has slowed to a virtual trackstand.

Blizzard of Odd: Pedaling to the Bitter End BikeSnobNYC 2010

Skinny, freckled, short-haired and boyish looking, she bore a strong resemblance to Charles Lindbergh, and "Lindy in drag" was one of the nicer sobriquets given her.

Gioia Diliberto: Flights of Fashion: How Amelia Earhart Became America's First Celebrity Designer (PHOTOS) 2009

It gives him energy, but has caused him to destroy those close to him, earning him the sobriquets Kinslayer and Womanslayer, at times.

Archive 2007-10-01 Blue Tyson 2007

Coming from one of your ilk, I bear with pride your sobriquets of “insufferable, pathetic and worthy of pity.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » A Lot of Books 2009

Alexandrovich (3. 22pm) ... you never know with these blog sobriquets, do you?

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009