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  • The taunting breaks out into a wild, savage dance, with epithets hurled at Anita, who is encircled...   (source)
  • I do not agree, in fact I am angry, when I hear you called an idiot; you are far too intelligent to deserve such an epithet; but you are so far STRANGE as to be unlike others; that you must allow, yourself.   (source)
    epithet = an insulting or abusive word or phrase
  • The child still struggled and loaded me with epithets which carried despair to my heart; I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet.   (source)
    epithets = insulting or abusive words or phrases
  • ...he got a certain satisfaction from believing that the citizens of Lincoln had meekly accepted the epithet "coarse barbarians."   (source)
  • ...you dare not touch him with a finger or an epithet.   (source)
  • Both sides are hurling the Nazi epithet.
    epithet = an insulting or abusive word or phrase
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  • Hall swept off into a diatribe against the "gambler's paradise," which was his epithet for the United States.   (source)
  • The cardinals denied he was Pope and ordered that he stop using papal epithets.
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  • The epithet, despite sounding flattering, was quite to the contrary.†   (source)
  • The spelling of psychoanalyze, the epithet slumbitch for Peter, the joke about pronouncing knew like canoe were all things that no one could know but Val.†   (source)
  • Danny knew that this was one of the worst epithets his father could summon.†   (source)
  • She also was known by other names: Elat, her most common epithet.†   (source)
  • I've been called a communist and a socialist, a "dunce," a "health fascist," an "economics ignoramus," a "banjo-strumming performer at Farm Aid," a "hectoring nanny of the nanny state," and much stronger epithets.†   (source)
  • After about a quarter of an hour, however, domestic harmony would be disturbed, their voices rose, and the epithets they used were now drawn from the entire range of domesticated animals, ending with the pig.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel took to drawing on the walls and ceiling of their apartment, and did amazingly dead-on caricatures of teachers and classmates and scribbled musical references and racial epithets, turning their apartment into a mad tapestry of race-tinged, twenty-year-old angst.†   (source)
  • Of these two main sources of that epithet "just," Phaedrus felt that the first, scientific materialism, was by far the easiest to cut to ribbons.†   (source)
  • Grumbling a few disinterested epithets, they moved away.†   (source)
  • Whenever possible I have left names unchanged, though Sayuri did hide the identities of certain men even from me through the convention, rather common among geisha, of referring to customers by means of an epithet.†   (source)
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  • If you don't like 'Kalle Blomkvist,' you can think up a whole new epithet.†   (source)
  • Little one, he said, startling Eragon with the use of the epithet,even if the ground were covered with Eldunari, our race would still be doomed.†   (source)
  • The driver muttered epithets at other drivers as I checked my watch.†   (source)
  • And he had used against her the very epithets he had used against Eric, and in the very same way, with the same roaring in his head and the same intolerable pressure in his chest.†   (source)
  • With each epithet, he rips the headpiece further.†   (source)
  • Dad's vicious slurred epithets came through too loud and too clear.†   (source)
  • During a heated game outside Atlanta, players and even some parents directed a vulgar racial epithet at Fugees players from the sideline.†   (source)
  • Elegante," Mami has said of Fifi's new style, but on our lips are other epithets.†   (source)
  • Everyone found the use of this service epithet amusing.†   (source)
  • The crowd was howling epithets, the stewards were infuriated, the reporters were unsympathetic.†   (source)
  • However, Areida was laughing, which made it seem the worst of epithets.†   (source)
  • Two hung up on him, three turned him down with epithets born of the suspicious Paris curbsides; but the sixth, amid obscenities, declared, "Why not?"†   (source)
  • Now, reincarnated as boss of her own magazine—the kind of job she'd vowed never to take—the first of these epithets stuck.†   (source)
  • Clary responded with an epithet that would have gotten her kicked out of class at St. Xavier's.†   (source)
  • I shouted the epithet toward the trees.†   (source)
  • Other writings in the paper referred to Tutsis as "cockroaches," an old epithet in Rwanda.†   (source)
  • MARTHA: (An unspoken epithet) You ….†   (source)
  • The Germans became Huns, Boche, or Jerry, as Americans borrowed British and French epithets.†   (source)
  • Her wails and epithets carry out from the broken windows, down the firestairs.†   (source)
  • Epithets!†   (source)
  • Nor does it mean that the ears of a New Yorker might not have been burned at McGuire's epithet; but such words are the common coin of the streets and of taxi drivers, and most New York denizens would have swallowed their gall and likewise kept their mouths shut.†   (source)
  • "Good Christian people" was the most cynical epithet in Zeke's repertoire.†   (source)
  • The fact is, the epithet is natural, apt: the nightingale is spring's lover.†   (source)
  • Frequently peeling off his shirt during the hot summer campaign, he harangued audiences in every corner of Texas with his great fund of vituperative epithets and withering sarcasm.†   (source)
  • Langdon glanced over at him, wondering if every Frenchman had a mysterious animal epithet.†   (source)
  • In fact he seldom cursed, and the epithets he chose were dull, even harmless.†   (source)
  • Under the circumstances, neither of these epithets could be considered wide of the mark.†   (source)
  • There was no answer and the woman shouted this time, using a most crude epithet.†   (source)
  • When I had kicked him out of our home in Corpus Christi, he had left grumbling epithets at me.†   (source)
  • Jones' epithet was the most perjorative curse of electronics people.†   (source)
  • She was a poetess of profanity, an oracle of epithets who could outcuss a bathroom wall.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, Asherah carried a second epithet in the Bronze Age, 'dat batni,' also 'the one of the serpent?†   (source)
  • From that moment on, to his dismay, he was nicknamed Kalle Blomkvist by his peers—an epithet employed with taunting provocation, not unfriendly but not really friendly either.†   (source)
  • Marie seldom called Pecola the same thing twice, but invariably her epithets were fond ones chosen from menus and dishes that were forever uppermost in her mind.†   (source)
  • To summarize: Enki and Ninhursag-who is Asherah, although in this story she also bears other epithets-live in a place called Dilmun.†   (source)
  • Guard and killer burst through the door and into the street where another crowd had gathered shrieking questions and epithets and cries of bad joss — misfortune for the establishment.†   (source)
  • Porter, Guitar, Freddie the janitor, and three or four other men were exploding, shouting angry epithets all over the room.†   (source)
  • The appetite of the people of These States, in popular speeches and writings, is for unhemmed latitude, coarseness, directness, live epithets, expletives, words of opprobrium, resistance.†   (source)
  • Why when he passed them did his classmates whisper "stukach," the cruel and bitter epithet of informer?†   (source)
  • He told me the story with passionate anger, uttering the remarkable epithet: "The only thing that could ever straighten out this screwed-up country is an atomic bomb!†   (source)
  • The taxi, stuffed full of Iranians, weaved through traffic, alternately plunging ahead at full throttle and screeching to a halt as the driver leaned on the horn and called his islamic brothers "saag" a particularly vehement epithet that literally means "dog."†   (source)
  • Moody and the pasdar men argued for many minutes as the lady pasdar screamed Persian epithets into my ears.†   (source)
  • The air was full of the stirring clamor of a multitude of voices—angry, triumphant, scornful with an occasional oath or epithet of contempt—but the voice of Sam Houston was not heard.†   (source)
  • And our public life is becoming so increasingly centered upon that seemingly unending war to which we have given the curious epithet "cold" that we tend to encourage rigid ideological unity and orthodox patterns of thought.†   (source)
  • My mother taught that only white trash used the more explosive, more satisfying epithet to describe black people.†   (source)
  • Nine out of twenty-two Democratic papers in the state are unbounded in vilifying him with such epithets as traitor, apostate, scoundrel, barn burner, abolitionist and free-soiler ….†   (source)
  • For his action, the Governor was burned in effigy, excluded from customary ceremonies such as parades and commencements, and assaulted daily in the press with such epithets as "anarchist," "socialist," "apologist for murder" and "fomenter of lawlessness."†   (source)
  • One of his speeches was described—by an opposition newspaper, but undoubtedly with some accuracy—as "a compound of abuses and egotism …. without the sanction of historical truth and …. without decent and refined language…… It was characterized throughout from beginning to end by such epithets as fellow thieves, rascals and assassins."†   (source)
  • George Norris called the President's scathing indictment a grave injustice to men who conscientiously tried to do their duty as they saw it; but, except for the unfortunate and unhelpful praise bestowed upon them by the German press, "the epithets heaped upon these men were without precedent in the annals of American journalism.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it was a single well-chosen epithet.†   (source)
  • "Italians," Piani said, using the word as an epithet, "Italiani!"†   (source)
  • In his opinion it didn't convey enough, and he set to looking for an epithet that would promptly and clearly "photograph" the superb animal he saw with his mind's eye.†   (source)
  • …and soap, sometimes scrubbing at him with harsh rags and soap, sometimes scrubbing at him with repressed fury as if she were trying to wash the smooth faint olive tinge from his skin as you might watch a child scrubbing at a wall long after the epithet, the chalked insult, has been obliterated; —lying there unsleeping in the dark between them, feeling them unasleep too, feeling them thinking about him, projecting about him and filling the thunderous solitude of his despair louder than…†   (source)
  • There, according to the report of one of his colleagues at the Illinois bar, Lincoln warned that Douglas and his followers would frighten men away from the very idea of freedom with their incessant mouthing of the red-herring epithet: "Abolitionist!"†   (source)
  • It was called officially Stiggins Hall, but in the more descriptive epithet of the students—The Sty.†   (source)
  • Old men growled in their beards, and Mrs. Merriwether who feared nothing rose slightly in her carriage and said clearly: "Speculator!" in a tone that made the word the foulest and most venomous of epithets.†   (source)
  • The word "Dithyrambos" itself, as an epithet of the killed and resurrected Dionysos, was understood by the Greeks to signify "him of the double door," him who had survived the awesome miracle of the second birth.†   (source)
  • The juicy epithets had long since lost their fine savor and a strident mechanical quality had crept into the rendering of the scene.†   (source)
  • And he screamed a sermon of profanity and woven invective:— "Little did I reck," he began, getting at once into the swing of preposterous rhetoric which he used half furiously, half comically, "little did I reck the day I first saw her eighteen bitter years ago, when she came wriggling around the corner at me like a snake on her belly—[a stock epithet which from repetition was now heartbalm to him]—little did I reck that—that—that it would come to this," he finished lamely.†   (source)
  • His turbulent and undisciplined rhetoric had acquired, by the regular convention of its usage, something of the movement and directness of classical epithet: his similes were preposterous, created really in a spirit of vulgar mirth, and the great comic intelligence that was in the family—down to the youngest—was shaken daily by it.†   (source)
  • He never found it, and he reeled down across the continent into the Reconstruction South—a strange wild form of six feet four with cold uneasy eyes, a great blade of nose, and a rolling tide of rhetoric, a preposterous and comic invective, as formalized as classical epithet, which he used seriously, but with a faint uneasy grin around the corners of his thin wailing mouth.†   (source)
  • This was a purely imaginative insult, which had secured itself as truth, however, in Gant's mind, as had so many other stock epithets, because it gave him heart-cockle satisfaction.†   (source)
  • Voices called "scab" now and then, as well as other epithets, but no crowd attacked the car.†   (source)
  • "Whatever have you done, darling?" he asked, with alarm, the tender epithet slipping out unawares.†   (source)
  • But Virgil had a command of epithets beyond that of any modern poet.†   (source)
  • She recognized the voice and also the epithet.†   (source)
  • The latter is known, and without exaggeration in the epithet, as the Great Mutiny.†   (source)
  • She kept on, with hysterical violence, shouting at him an opprobrious, filthy epithet.†   (source)
  • The skipper shouted with rasping effort offensive epithets from where he sat at the oar.†   (source)
  • They had a rapid altercation, in which they fastened upon each other various strange epithets.†   (source)
  • Now the stones were off, and Hurstwood took his place again amid a continued chorus of epithets.†   (source)
  • It had been many a day now since she had ventured a caress or a fondling epithet in his quarter.†   (source)
  • Duchene senior is ferocious; but what epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier?†   (source)
  • Tristram accordingly secured for him an apartment to which this epithet might be lavishly applied.†   (source)
  • "Infamous!" said Mme. Bonacieux, addressing this epithet to her husband.†   (source)
  • I remonstrated, in allusion to the epithet and the vigorous emphasis Miss Jellyby set upon it.†   (source)
  • Soft is the very word for her eye—of all epithets, the justest that could be given.†   (source)
  • What epithet would properly describe me?†   (source)
  • [He swallows the epithet and stands for a moment swearing and raging foully to himself.†   (source)
  • The king was in a flaming fury, and launched out his challenge and epithets with a most royal vigor.†   (source)
  • "Bestow not on me, Sir Knight," she said, "the epithet of noble.†   (source)
  • The epithet, as may be easily understood, resounded to the very bottom of d'Artagnan's heart.†   (source)
  • Are there, then, in England two men to whom such an epithet can be applied?†   (source)
  • It may be said that these outbursts and epithets, such as "wet hen" (in which the maternal solicitude usually showed itself), only made Alexandra laugh.†   (source)
  • There's propaganda behind all this," he said, forgetting that a hundred years ago, when Europeans still made their home in the country-side and appealed to its imagination, they occasionally became local demons after de4m— not a whole god, perhaps, but part of one, adding an epithet or gesture to what already existed, just as the gods contribute to the great gods, and they to the philosophic Brahm.†   (source)
  • "All I meant was that she hardly struck me as 'distinguished,' " he went on, isolating the epithet in the inverted commas of his tone, "and, after all, that is something of a compliment."†   (source)
  • Helen as well as he got Bo's inference to that last audacious epithet he had boldly called out as the train was leaving Las Vegas.†   (source)
  • In spite of the fact that nobody ever mentioned his article to him after it appeared--full of typographical errors which he thought intentional--he got a certain satisfaction from believing that the citizens of Lincoln had meekly accepted the epithet 'coarse barbarians.'†   (source)
  • They chucked the housewife and her daughters under the chin whilst receiving the food from their hands, and made coarse jests about them, accompanied with insulting epithets and bursts of horse-laughter.†   (source)
  • She let the lady Maecenases of her acquaintance beguile her into several of their Causes, and she enjoyed them as she had enjoyed her active and entirely purposeless war work in 1917, for Joyce Lanyon was to some degree an Arranger, which was an epithet invented by Terry Wickett for Capitola McGurk.†   (source)
  • He was accustomed to say that Papists required an epithet, they were Roman Catholic; but the Church of England was Catholic in the best, the fullest, and the noblest sense of the term.†   (source)
  • Andrews was obliged to confine himself to brief visits, in order to avoid suspicion; but he managed to impart a fair degree of information each time —information delivered in a low voice, for Hendon's benefit, and interlarded with insulting epithets delivered in a louder voice for the benefit of other hearers.†   (source)
  • That epithet, by the way, is ours (or better, Hans Castorp's), because for those who spread such news it was hardly a novelty that required such strong language.†   (source)
  • But Claggart's conscience being but the lawyer to his will, made ogres of trifles, probably arguing that the motive imputed to Billy in spilling the soup just when he did, together with the epithets alleged, these, if nothing more, made a strong case against him; nay, justified animosity into a sort of retributive righteousness.†   (source)
  • …rim, conferred the part, assigned the purpose of offering to the bird in abundance the fruit or grain at which it appeared to be pecking, another on the head of the statue, which it seemed to crown with one of those enamelled objects whose polychrome varies in certain classical works the monotony of the stone, and with an attribute which, when the goddess bears it, entitles her to a particular epithet and makes of her, as a different Christian name makes of a mortal, a fresh divinity.†   (source)
  • Carley recognized the voice, and then the epithet, before her sight established the man as Haze Ruff.†   (source)
  • Vilbert went; but though Jude had hitherto taken the medicines of that skilful practitioner with the greatest indifference whenever poured down his throat by Arabella, he was now so brought to bay by events that he vented his opinion of Vilbert in the physician's face, and so forcibly, and with such striking epithets, that Vilbert soon scurried downstairs again.†   (source)
  • This cold officer upon a monument, who dropped epithets unconcernedly down, would be finer as a dead man, he thought.†   (source)
  • He glared—I smiled; hound was the very mildest epithet that had reached me through the open window.†   (source)
  • The pen falters when it attempts to treat of the excellence thereof; the sober vocabulary, the sparse epithet of this narrative, are inadequate to the task; and pompous terms, jewelled, exotic phrases rise to the excited fancy.†   (source)
  • …sacristy, shed a geranium glow over the red carpet laid down for the wedding, along which Mme. de Guermantes smilingly advanced, and covered its woollen texture with a nap of rosy velvet, a bloom of light, giving it that sort of tenderness, of solemn sweetness in the pomp of a joyful celebration, which characterises certain pages of Lohengrin, certain paintings by Carpaccio, and makes us understand how Baudelaire was able to apply to the sound of the trumpet the epithet 'delicious.'†   (source)
  • …of the Foretopman—for it was from the Master-at-arms that the petty persecutions heretofore adverted to had proceeded—the Corporal having naturally enough concluded that his master could have no love for the sailor, made it his business, faithful understrapper that he was, to foment the ill blood by perverting to his Chief certain innocent frolics of the goodnatured Foretopman, besides inventing for his mouth sundry contumelious epithets he claimed to have overheard him let fall.†   (source)
  • She was a good, brave, honest little woman; and Mildred, he thought bitterly, deserved none of these epithets.†   (source)
  • The Master-at-arms never suspected the veracity of these reports, more especially as to the epithets, for he well knew how secretly unpopular may become a master-at-arms, at least a master-at-arms of those days zealous in his function, and how the blue—jackets shoot at him in private their raillery and wit; the nickname by which he goes among them (Jimmy Legs) implying under the form of merriment their cherished disrespect and dislike.†   (source)
  • It was written in the formal manner he affected, studded with pompous epithets as a Persian diadem was studded with precious stones; and in the beautiful hand, like black letter and as difficult to read, upon which he prided himself.†   (source)
  • Philip in his happier moods indulged Tom to the top of his bent, heightening the crash and bang and fury of every fight with all the artillery of epithets and similes at his command.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Henchard overheard this epithet when they passed together along the Walks—as the avenues on the walls were named—at which his face would darken with an expression of destructiveness towards the speakers ominous to see; but he said nothing.†   (source)
  • It was by no means lovely, but as the man gathered up his reins he called it a Moon of Paradise, a Disturber of Integrity, and a few other fantastic epithets which doubled her up with mirth.†   (source)
  • The truth was, that as she now stood—excited, wild, and honest as the day—her alluring beauty bore out so fully the epithets he had bestowed upon it that he was quite startled at his temerity in advancing them as false.†   (source)
  • He noticed this; and while I stood before him, trembling with weakness, he heaped upon me and my little one every vile epithet he could think of.†   (source)
  • You missed your epithet.†   (source)
  • "I should think one of those epithets would do at a time," said Mary, trying to smile, but feeling alarmed.†   (source)
  • And it touched the tenderest fibre in Bartle Massey's nature, for such full-grown children as these were the only pupils for whom he had no severe epithets and no impatient tones.†   (source)
  • Napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield and, addressing him, again used the epithet "young man" that was connected in his memory with Prince Andrew.†   (source)
  • Passepartout was on the point of vigorously resenting the epithet, the reason of which he could not for the life of him comprehend; but he reflected that the unfortunate Fix was probably very much disappointed and humiliated in his self-esteem, after having so awkwardly followed a false scent around the world, and refrained.†   (source)
  • She asked herself, with an almost childlike horror of the supposition, whether to this intimate friend of several years the great historical epithet of wicked were to be applied.†   (source)
  • "That were impossible," returned the young man; "he called you by a thousand endearing epithets, that I may not presume to use, but to the justice of which, I can warmly testify.†   (source)
  • Svidrigailov asked in naive dismay, taking not the slightest notice of the epithet bestowed on his designs.†   (source)
  • Miss Squeers hesitated a long time for this last epithet, and brought it out triumphantly as last, as if it quite clinched the business.†   (source)
  • The patient was much more deserving of that epithet while under the hands of Mohegan, than while suffering under the practice of the physician.†   (source)
  • 'And you, you worthless — ' he broke out as I entered, turning to his daughter-in-law, and employing an epithet as harmless as duck, or sheep, but generally represented by a dash — .†   (source)
  • The shop-boys in the neighbourhood had long been in the habit of branding Noah in the public streets, with the ignominious epithets of 'leathers,'†   (source)
  • He was affected by his mistress's deplorable situation, and succeeded in preventing an outrageous denial of the epithet "drunken" on the footman's part.†   (source)
  • 'I am surprised, Steerforth — although your candour does you honour,' said Mr. Creakle, 'does you honour, certainly — I am surprised, Steerforth, I must say, that you should attach such an epithet to any person employed and paid in Salem House, sir.'†   (source)
  • That day they gathered up some unusual specimens from these fish–filled waterways: anglerfish whose comical movements qualify them for the epithet "clowns," black Commerson anglers equipped with their antennas, undulating triggerfish encircled by little red bands, bloated puffers whose venom is extremely insidious, some olive–hued lampreys, snipefish covered with silver scales, cutlass fish whose electrocuting power equals that of the electric eel and the electric ray, scaly…†   (source)
  • We need hardly say that many of those who gave him this epithet repeated it because they had heard it, and did not even know what it meant.†   (source)
  • --the skin rivalling the purest ivory, the commanding extent and repose, the gentle prominence of the regions above the temples; and then the raven-black, the glossy, the luxuriant and naturally-curling tresses, setting forth the full force of the Homeric epithet, "hyacinthine!"†   (source)
  • You give him his bottle of wine here; you give him meat, drink, and lodging there; you dare not touch him with a finger or an epithet.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth could hardly help laughing at so convenient a proposal; yet was really vexed that her mother should be always giving him such an epithet.†   (source)
  • Here the old woman, having expended her breath and exhausted her epithets, was fain to pause a moment, though both her fists were shaken in the prisoner's face, and the whole of her wrinkled countenance was filled with fierce resentment.†   (source)
  • This profession in America has constantly been held in honour, and more successfully than elsewhere has put forward a claim to the epithet of "liberal."†   (source)
  • Too often she betrayed this, by the undue vent she gave to a spiteful antipathy she had conceived against little Adele: pushing her away with some contumelious epithet if she happened to approach her; sometimes ordering her from the room, and always treating her with coldness and acrimony.†   (source)
  • The epithet was not romantic, but Mrs. Tristram had no difficulty in perceiving that, in essentials, the feeling which lay beneath it was.†   (source)
  • 'Touch me with a finger, touch me with an epithet, question my superiority as I sit here drinking my wine at my pleasure,' said Rigaud, 'and I follow the letter and cancel my week's grace.†   (source)
  • Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by the passing stroller with the epithet: melancholy, the apparently objectless promenades of the dreamer.†   (source)
  • It is true that when she described them to her cousin by that term he declared that no epithet could be less applicable than this to the two Misses Molyneux, since there were fifty thousand young women in England who exactly resembled them.†   (source)
  • 'A nasty, ungrateful, pig-headed, brutish, obstinate, sneaking dog,' exclaimed Mrs Squeers, taking Smike's head under her arm, and administering a cuff at every epithet; 'what does he mean by that?'†   (source)
  • Without making the least objection to the punishment, the Leather-Stocking quietly seated himself on the ground, and suffered his limbs to be laid in the openings, without even a murmur; though he cast one glance about him, in quest of that sympathy that human nature always seems to require under suffering " but he met no direct manifestations of pity, neither did he see any unfeeling exultation, or hear a single reproachful epithet.†   (source)
  • MRS WARREN [angrily] Silly old—[She swallows an epithet, and then turns white at the narrowness of her escape from uttering it].†   (source)
  • "Truly," said the knight, "Holy Clerk of Copmanhurst, men call me in these parts the Black Knight,—many, sir, add to it the epithet of Sluggard, whereby I am no way ambitious to be distinguished."†   (source)
  • …has probably as much to do with these demonstrations as any imbecile intention in the poor old woman, but on the present occasion they are so particularly lively in connexion with the Windsor arm-chair, fellow to that in which Mr. Smallweed is seated, that she only quite desists when her grandchildren have held her down in it, her lord in the meanwhile bestowing upon her, with great volubility, the endearing epithet of "a pig-headed jackdaw," repeated a surprising number of times.†   (source)
  • We use round, general, gentlemanly epithets about a young man of birth and fortune; and ladies, with that fine intuition which is the distinguishing attribute of their sex, see at once that he is "nice."†   (source)
  • I have said that she was restless and unable to occupy herself; and whether or no, if you had seen her there, you would have admired the justice of the former epithet, you would at least have allowed that at this moment she was the image of a victim of idleness.†   (source)
  • It would be a great mistake to suppose that Dorothea would have cared about any share in Mr. Casaubon's learning as mere accomplishment; for though opinion in the neighborhood of Freshitt and Tipton had pronounced her clever, that epithet would not have described her to circles in whose more precise vocabulary cleverness implies mere aptitude for knowing and doing, apart from character.†   (source)
  • It is unnecessary to repeat all that ferocity and ignorance could invent for such a purpose, the only difference between this outbreaking of feminine anger, and a similar scene among ourselves, consisting in the figures of speech and the epithets, the Huron women calling their prisoner by the names of the lower and least respected animals that were known to themselves.†   (source)
  • And whenever he spoke (which he did almost always), he took care to produce the very finest and longest words of which the vocabulary gave him the use, rightly judging that it was as cheap to employ a handsome, large, and sonorous epithet, as to use a little stingy one.†   (source)
  • The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and stormy.†   (source)
  • Here have I been, a matter of how many weeks—hard upon six—a follering up this here blessed old dowager petty larcenerer,'—Mr Squeers delivered himself of this epithet with great difficulty and effort,—'and Dotheboys Hall a-running itself regularly to seed the while!†   (source)
  • Be fore, however, he was quite locked—to use the language that would suit the Della-cruscan humor of certain refined minds of the present day—" in the arms of Morpheus," he spoke aloud, observing due pauses between his epithets, the impressive terms of "monkey,"†   (source)
  • The difficulty was that more than any man she had ever known, more than poor Lord Warburton (she had begun now to give his lordship the benefit of this epithet), Caspar Goodwood expressed for her an energy—and she had already felt it as a power that was of his very nature.†   (source)
  • 'I said to that boiling-over old Christian,' Mr Pancks pursued, appearing greatly to relish this descriptive epithet, 'that I had got a little project on hand; a hopeful one; I told him a hopeful one; which wanted a certain small capital.†   (source)
  • "Thou mayst call me," answered the hermit, "the Clerk of Copmanhurst, for so I am termed in these parts—They add, it is true, the epithet holy, but I stand not upon that, as being unworthy of such addition.†   (source)
  • Babcock had related this incident to Newman, and our hero had applied an epithet of an unflattering sort to the young girl.†   (source)
  • From time to time, at those "energetic" moments of the prosecutor's speech, when eloquence which cannot contain itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and from left to right in the sort of mute and melancholy protest with which he had contented himself since the beginning of the argument.†   (source)
  • The baker having been, by the counsel for Miss Rugg, witheringly denounced on that occasion up to the full amount of twenty guineas, at the rate of about eighteen-pence an epithet, and having been cast in corresponding damages, still suffered occasional persecution from the youth of Pentonville.†   (source)
  • Mrs Squeers, when excited, was accustomed to use strong language, and, moreover, to make use of a plurality of epithets, some of which were of a figurative kind, as the word peacock, and furthermore the allusion to Nicholas's nose, which was not intended to be taken in its literal sense, but rather to bear a latitude of construction according to the fancy of the hearers.†   (source)
  • Many might take for their device the epithet STRONG, which formed the second part of his motto, but very few gentlemen could lay claim to the FAITHFUL, which constituted the first.†   (source)
  • He had left the lists immediately when the conflict ceased, and had been observed by some spectators to move down one of the forest glades with the same slow pace and listless and indifferent manner which had procured him the epithet of the Black Sluggard.†   (source)
  • To counterbalance their royal descent, he had courage, activity, energy, and, above all, that devoted attachment to the cause which had procured him the epithet of The Saxon, and his birth was inferior to none, excepting only that of Athelstane and his ward.†   (source)
  • "Nay, I can tell you more," said Wamba, in the same tone; "there is old Alderman Ox continues to hold his Saxon epithet, while he is under the charge of serfs and bondsmen such as thou, but becomes Beef, a fiery French gallant, when he arrives before the worshipful jaws that are destined to consume him.†   (source)
  • And yet, at other times, an epithet seems to be used with special emphasis.†   (source)
  • But Parry replied that the epithet is ornamental, being used of the earth also in The Odyssey (11.†   (source)
  • Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel-writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding—joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he will render the widely used epithet dios on the literal side, as "godlike Akhilleus" (dios is connected with the same root as "Zeus").†   (source)
  • A classic case is an epithet for earth in Helen's closing lines in the teikhoskopia: having surveyed the Greek heroes, she looks in vain for her two brothers (3.†   (source)
  • Parry showed that these noun-epithet combinations worked systematically to provide the poet with a metrically convenient phrase for most parts of a hexameter line; for example, when Akhilleus' name stands at the end of the verse, it will depend on how the first half of that verse is shaped metrically whether the poet calls him "fleet-footed Akhilleus" or "godlike Akhilleus" or " fleet-footed, godlike Akhilleus."†   (source)
  • 24 The most striking illustration of how Homeric diction worked was Parry's study of the use of fixed, or "ornamental," epithets.†   (source)
  • An argument for Homer's creative use of epithets is Paolo Vivante, The Epithets in Homer: A Study in Poetic Values (New Haven, 1982).†   (source)
  • Most of the names in Homer and many common nouns have epithets: ships are often "black" or "swift," the sea is "winedark."†   (source)
  • On the other hand, he will gloss epithets when a literal translation might sound slightly inappropriate.†   (source)
  • But Fitzgerald judges incongruity distracting and generalizes the epithets: "the godlike athlete, son of Peleus, Prince / Akhilleus waited by his racing ships."†   (source)
  • 26 One might argue that these very common epithets are deliberately paradoxical in this case, to show how out of character it is for Akhilleus to be idle.†   (source)
  • In a similar way Virgil imitated Homer's typical epithets, but prudently selected the widely applicable modifier "pater" for his main character, "father Aineias."†   (source)
  • Crowner!" and similar epithets began to be heard among the more general abuse aimed at me and Geilie.†   (source)
  • His politics bristles with pungent epithets; his whole history has been bedizened with tall talk; his fundamental institutions rest as much upon brilliant phrases as upon logical ideas.†   (source)
  • Oh, how I regret That she can't hear you use that epithet.†   (source)
  • Beautiful is an epithet often used in Scripture, and always mentioned with honour.†   (source)
  • They will not answer to that epithet; You were best call it 'daughter-beamed eyes.'†   (source)
  • A most singular and choice epithet.†   (source)
  • Three great ones of the city, In personal suit to make me his lieutenant, Off-capp'd to him:—and, by the faith of man, I know my price, I am worth no worse a place:— But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, Evades them, with a bumbast circumstance Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war: And, in conclusion, nonsuits My mediators: for, "Certes," says he, "I have already chose my officer."†   (source)
  • 'Suffer love,' a good epithet!†   (source)
  • Thus they denote the folly of a servant, an omission of a child, a stone that cuts their feet, a continuance of foul or unseasonable weather, and the like, by adding to each the epithet of Yahoo.†   (source)
  • If, therefore, the loud clamors against the plan of the convention, on this score, are well founded, no epithets of reprobation will be too strong for the constitution of this State.†   (source)
  • I hesitate not to submit it to the decision of any candid and honest adversary of the proposed government, whether language can furnish epithets of too much asperity, for so shameless and so prostitute an attempt to impose on the citizens of America.†   (source)
  • [*] Lest posterity should be puzzled by this epithet, I think proper to explain it by an advertisement which was published Feb. 1, 1747.†   (source)
  • Though I called him poor Partridge in the last paragraph, I would have the reader rather impute that epithet to the compassion in my temper than conceive it to be any declaration of his innocence.†   (source)
  • Truly, Master Holofernes, the epithets are sweetly varied, like a scholar at the least: but, sir, I assure ye it was a buck of the first head.†   (source)
  • In my humble opinion, the true characteristic of the present beau monde is rather folly than vice, and the only epithet which it deserves is that of frivolous.†   (source)
  • Should I add to these the epithets of wise, brave, elegant, and indeed every other amiable epithet in our language, I might surely say, —Quis credet? nemo Hercule! nemo; Vel duo, vel nemo; and yet I know a man who is all I have here described.†   (source)
  • Mr Jones and Partridge, or Little Benjamin (which epithet of Little was perhaps given him ironically, he being in reality near six feet high), having left their last quarters in the manner before described, travelled on to Gloucester without meeting any adventure worth relating.†   (source)
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