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Usage examples of sobriquet.

The name Code Master was an embarrassing sobriquet Babby had announced to one and all after his success at breaking the French code during the war.

Scunthorpe, and, with the praiseworthy notion of introducing Bertram into better company, made him known to one of the most disinterested of her admirers, young Lord Wivenhoe, heir to an affluent Earldom, and known to the greater part of London as Chuffy Wivenhoe, an affectionate sobriquet earned for him by his round, good-humoured countenance.

It was therefore truly astonishing that his name was Titty Smart, though it may be supposed that this was a sobriquet and not his Christian name.

Both here and in Germany this Goosefoot is used for feeding poultry, and it has hence acquired the sobriquet of Fat-hen.

Pomeroy was a journalist, whose sobriquet resulted from a series of Brickdust Sketches of prominent Wisconsin men which he published in one of his papers.

The legless Quebecker Wheelchair Assassins, although legless and confined to wheelchairs, nevertheless contrive to have situated large reflective devices across odd-numbered United States highways for the purpose of disorienting and endangering northbound Americans, to have disrupted pipelines between processing points in the eastern Reconfiguration's annular fusion grid, have been linked to attempts at systemic damage of the federally contracted Empire Waste Displacement's launch and reception facilities on both sides of the Reconfigured intracontinental border, and, perhaps most infamously, derive their cell's own sobriquet in the vox populi "Wheelchair Assassins" from the active practice of assassinating prominent Cana dian officials who support or even tolerate what they the A.

The Iraqis sent a delegation led by 'Izzat Ibrahim ad-Duri, one of Saddam's longtime Ba'thist flunkies, and accompanied by none other than 'All Hassan al-Majid, whose treatment of the Kurds had earned him the sobriquet "Chemical 'Ali.

It informs the reader that the object of the sobriquet is presumptively insane by saying he is a member of it.

Educated men were reluctant to use their family and personal names and addressed each other by their sobriquets instead.

Nicknames differ from sobriquets, which we select ourselves and for which we pick the most flattering combinations.

But the night was short and every moment precious because of their desire to make love, so he never did ask the women's names, their husbands' sobriquets, or where they lived.

He recalled the Knave's telling him about two sisters from a rich and distinguished family who were married to two brothers, and the brothers' sobriquets happened to match these.