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Haven't you some variations of this tongue-twisting appellative to serve for every day, and save trouble?" "They call me Fleda," said the little girl, who could not help laughing. "Nothing better than that?"
What a relief most people have in speaking of a man not by his true and formal name, with a "Mister" to it, but by some odd or homely appellative.
Therefore I will put my other duties aside for a moment and undertake this helpful service. She said as follows: "In view of the circulation of certain criticisms from the pen of Mark Twain, I submit the following statement: "It is a fact, well understood, that I begged the students who first gave me the endearing appellative 'mother' not to name me thus.
In connexion with this appellative of "Whalebone whales," it is of great importance to mention, that however such a nomenclature may be convenient in facilitating allusions to some kind of whales, yet it is in vain to attempt a clear classification of the Leviathan, founded upon either his baleen, or hump, or fin, or teeth; notwithstanding that those marked parts or features very obviously seem better adapted to afford the basis for a regular system of Cetology than any other detached bodily distinctions, which the whale, in his kinds, presents.
Wily Will justified his appellative; for, after suspicion arose, he was seen no more.
Now, while we could believe anything sombre and stern of one sporting that deep, nasal and majestic appellative, we find it impossible to associate thoughts of unearthly gloom with the airy Milesian cognomen of Pat Prunty, even though weighted with the solemn prefix of "Reverend."
The vessel was the Parki, of Lahina, a village and harbor on the coast of Mowee, one of the Hawaian isles, where she had been miserably cobbled together with planks of native wood, and fragments of a wreck, there drifted ashore. Her appellative had been bestowed in honor of a high chief, the tallest and goodliest looking gentleman in all the Sandwich Islands.
Littre, who has found the word in use as a Christian name two centuries before the Reformation, has no doubt that here is the explanation of it. Many derivations have been suggested, but the most probable account is that given in Ducange, that the appellative was derived from 'le Begue' the Stammerer, the nickname of Lambert, a priest of Liege in the twelfth century, the founder of the order.
"She is not particularly little," said Rossitur with a dryness that somehow lacked any savour of gratification. "She is of a most fair stature," said Thorn; "I did not mean anything against that, but there are characters to which one gives instinctively a softening appellative." "Are there?" said Charlton. "Yes. She is a lovely little creature."
His name was Daniel; but his graceful form and excellent taste in dress had caused his name to be corrupted from "Dan," by which short appellative he had formerly been called, into "Dandy," and this was now the only name by which he was known on the plantation. Dandy was a boy of good parts.
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