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word or words by which someone or something is known or classified — such as a person or wine-growing region- "Yes," I replied, "my right to that appellation is indubitable.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Celestial Railroad
- A man who bears the idiotic appellation Tyrone.Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
- I said, "I had not;" and desired he would explain to me "what he meant by such an appellation, applied to a mortal creature."Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
- When Senator Ellsworth observed how very ordinary the mere appellation of President sounded, Adams immediately concurred from the Chair.David McCullough -- John Adams
- But however this action of our men might seem to them justifiable, yet I always openly condemned it with the appellation, of the Massacre of Madagascar.Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe
- How can she find any appellation for them, deep enough in familiar vulgarity?Jane Austen -- Emma
- What's your name now, — P?' said my aunt, as a compromise for the obnoxious appellation.Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- Even if Pierre were not a Frenchman, having once received that loftiest of human appellations he could not renounce it, said the officer's look and tone.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- The appellation was not flattering, but not unmerited.Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
- Poland, which is a mixture of aristocracy and of monarchy in their worst forms, has been dignified with the same appellation.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
- Was called the same, without the appellation of the native chief.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
- And so the appellation must at last have come to be bestowed upon the whale from which this spermaceti was really derived.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- In the navy he was popularly known by the appellation—Starry Vere.Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
- Why, he was so called as truly as I myself bore the appellation of Gaspard Caderousse; but tell me, I pray, what has become of poor Edmond?Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Whatever opinions Lee had of Washington, he kept to himself, except to remark that he thought the appellation "Excellency" perfectly absurd.David G. McCullough -- 1776
- Addison peered over his glasses at Enoch and said, "And by what appellation, dare I ask, are you denominated?"Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
- The lower the calling is, and the more remote from learning, the more pompous and erudite is its appellation.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- The ice once broken in this manner, Elnathan was greeted from every mouth with his official appellation.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
- The lake makes it windy, hence its appellation: the Windy City.Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
- "Le Renard Subtil does not eat," he said, using the appellation he had found most flattering to the vanity of the Indian.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans