After some discussion they nicknamed Joe, "Dakota Joe" and Jim, "Dakota Jim.

They nicknamed him the "Baker," as if he could supply them with bread, and began to clamor for him at least to take up an occasional residence among them in in his capital.

President Taylor nicknamed this "the Omnibus Bill," because of its many provisions.

The scarlet lychnis, popularly nicknamed the "great candlestick," was commonly said to be lighted up for his day.

Rebellion smells no sweeter because it is called Secession, nor does Order lose its divine precedence in human affairs because a knave may nickname it Coercion.

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Buck is a common by-name for boys in the mountains, and it could not be guessed whether the old man used it as a diminutive of the surname, or whether he meant merely to nickname this favourite of his.

Among further plants possessing the same quality are the nettle and milfoil, and then there is the famous St. John's wort, popularly nicknamed "devil's flight.

He insisted that figures had personality, just as people have, and it was a favourite method of his to nickname his friends and pupils according to a numeral.

The Parisians nicknamed the two brothers "Imagination" and "Common Sense."

Opening into the elegant drawing-room was a not less elegant card room, appreciatively nicknamed the Inferno by the band.

King Louis has nicknamed Joan 'The Owlet' because she is little, ill-shapen, and black.

About the same time Sigismund, King of Hungary, threatened with an invasion of his kingdom by the great Turkish Sultan Bajazet I., nicknamed Lightning (El Derfr), because of his rapid conquests, invoked the aid of the Christian kings of the West, and especially of the King of France.

"Sophia [as she nicknamed the young man] and I have been quite reconciled, and are now quite broke, and I believe not likely to piece up again," Lady Mary wrote to her sister.

Accordingly, Michelangelo made up his mind to obey the patron whom he nicknamed his Medusa.

Roger North says that the Tories nicknamed the opposite party 'Birmingham Protestants, alluding to the false groats struck at that place'.

He hath nicknamed all the prophets and apostles with his sons, and begets nothing but virtues for daughters.

Mr. Woodroffe has nicknamed him 'Sir Putrid.'"

The style of the articles directed against the Radical writers, and those especially whom the party had nicknamed the "Cockney school" of poetry, may be conceived by its provoking the following observation from Hazlitt to me:"To pay those fellows, Sir, in their own coin, the way would be, to begin with Walter Scott, and have at his clump-foot."

Gaius was in the habit of nicknaming him "sissy" (though he was the hardiest of men) and whenever it came the turn of Chairea to command would give him some such watchword as "yearning" or "Venus."

At last Lord Mountstuart (whom I've nicknamed "Stewey") remembered that there was a ball going on, and that he was the host.

In it you nicknamed Maria Theresa, Aunt Tilla; the Elector of Saxony, Brother Osten; the Empress of Russia, Cousin Lizzy; and our king, Neighbor Flink.

One had nicknamed the other "the melancholy tinker.

And he was thinking of his brother, the retired doctor, who was living in the paternal home over there in the Marina:an excellent man, but a little crazy, whom the people on the coast called the Dotor, and the poet Labarta had nicknamed the Triton.

The debates upon the first and second readings were remarkable for energy of attack from the disaffected section of the old Palmerstonian party, nicknamed the "Adullamites."