Scipio Asiaticus takes his surname for the courage and ability he showed. 189.

Afterward, in imitation of his example, some, by no means his equals in his victories, affixed splendid inscriptions on their statues and gave honorable surnames to their families.

He was impetuous and terrible in all his actions, and bore the surname of "the wild boar of the Ardennes."

Their mother was Cosa degli Alessandri, a granddaughter of Alessandro degli Albizzi, who first adopted the new surname.

It had been selected by Marcellus as the site of a Roman colony; and so many Romans and Spaniards of high rank chose it for their residence, that it obtained from Augustus the honourable surname of the "Patrician Colony."

A custom came into vogue, by which the victor and his descendants derived a permanent surname from the victories they had wona custom mainly established by the victor of Zama who got himself designated as the hero of Africa, his brother as the hero of Asia, and his cousin as the hero of Spain.(48)

Muley Yezeed, who assumed the surname of El-Mahdee i.e. "the director," in 1792.

Hinterland You'll see the grave of Shawn Knarlbrand, Who slew the savage Buffaloon By the Nant-col one night in June, And won his surname from the horn Of this prodigious unicorn.

(Write the surnames in alphabetical order, and leave sufficient space between the alphabetical letters to insert all additional names.)

The occurrence of which discomfiture to Fabius is exceedingly improbable; not only because, if in any particular, certainly, above all, in the qualifications of a commander, he fully merited his surname; but besides, mindful of Papirius's severity, he never could have been tempted to fight, without the dictator's orders.

Nothing could be lower than he was, a fellow who got his surname as a sort of insult, derived from the hesitation of his speech and the stolidity of his understanding.

"Who knows," the young Irishman proceeded to inquire, "I say, who knows but Pedro, theyre, may be struck wid a fever?" Pedro, a short, compact man of thoroughly mixed blood, and with an eyebrow cut away, whose surname no one knew, smiled his acknowledgments.

The functions of this tribunal did not differ much from those of the royal châtellenies: its jurisdiction embraced quarrels between individuals, assaults, revolts, disputes between the universities and the students, and improper conduct generally (ribaudailles), in consequence of which the provost acquired the popular surname of Roi des Ribauds.

That prince took for his wife a lady of the Wu family, having the same surname as himself, and had her named 'Lady Tsz of Wu, the elder,' If he knows the Proprieties, then who does not?"

Nothing is more common than to mistake surnames when we hear them carelessly uttered for the first time.

Mr. Markland says, "Sir Joseph Jekyll, when Master of the Rolls, in the year 1730, remarks'I am satisfied the usage of passing Acts of Parliament for the taking upon one a surname is but modern; and that any one may take upon him what surname, and as many surnames, as he pleases, without an Act of Parliament.'

" Abbas received from his subjects and posterity the surname of THE GREAT.

In the long list of sovereigns who had reigned over France in the five hundred years which had passed by since the warrior-saint of the Crusades had laid down his life on the sands of Tunis, there had been but two to whom their countrymen could look back with affection or respect Louis XII., to whom his subjects had given the title of The Good, and Henry, to whom more than one memorial still preserved the surname of The Great.

After this period Lucius Tarquinius began to reign, whose acts procured him the surname of Proud, for he, the son-in-law, refused his father-in-law burial, alleging that even Romulus was not buried after death.

How do you pronounce your surname?

And another will inscribe on his hand, "Jehovah's," And receive the surname, "Israel.

For a moment he was unable to remember her surname.

Only the sharp judgment of our peers reverses our own heraldry and sticks a surname like a burr upon us.

O Lord!"that he and his issue"me and my issue"may take and use the surname and arms of Bacon"Bacon, the surname and arms of Bacon"in pursuance of an injunction contained in the last will and testament of Nicholas Bacon, Esq.

Then a benevolent uncle with a large estate died, and left him, with his lands, the more exalted surname of Dodington.