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Updated: June 14, 2025
Indeed, in all that countryside, among both Boers and natives, Ralph won the by-name of the "Man of the Mountain" because he rarely spoke of aught else. But still folk, black and white, knew the reason of his madness and bore with him, pitying his grief. It was, I remember, in the season after Suzanne had vanished that the Kaffirs became so angry and dangerous.
The husband did not speak as I stepped in, did not acknowledge my nod even, merely glanced at me carelessly, as if I were no concern of his. Besides, he was sitting playing cards with a person I had seen down on the quays, with the by-name of "Pane o' glass."
Domenico Ghirlandajo was properly Domenico Bicordi, but inherited from his father, a goldsmith in Florence, the by-name of Ghirlandajo or Garland-maker a distinctive appellation said to have been acquired by the elder man from his skill in making silver garlands for the heads of Florentine women and children.
The grant of the red hat to the latter appears to have caused some scandal, for, owing to the Pope's relations with his sister, to which it was openly said that Farnese owed the purple, he received the by-name of Cardinal della Gonella Cardinal of the Petticoat. Roma Bovem invenit tunc, cum fundatur aratro, Et nunc lapsa suo est ecce renata Bove. From an inscription quoted by Bernardino Coaxo.
The hand and heart of her sister Mary were yet unengaged, although she bore the by-name among her friends of the "Jessamy Bride." This family was prepared, by their intimacy with Reynolds and his sister, to appreciate the merits of Goldsmith.
Still more variety is obtained by the mention of some personal trait of the individual, such as "Fair Archie," "Black Janet," and the like. Willy Paterson's wife was commonly known by such a by-name; every one spoke of her as "Bell o' the Burn," from the name of her childhood's home.
It was always Pap's custom to call Shade by the first syllable of his second name. 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. Shade threw himself on the upper step of the porch and searched in his pockets for tobacco.
'That's a by-name, said the knight sternly; 'I must have the full name of any man who rides with me. 'George Douglas, then, if nothing short of that will content you! 'Are ye sib to the Earl? 'Ay, sir, and have rid in his company. 'Whose word am I to take for that? 'Mine, sir, a word that none has ever doubted, said the youth boldly. 'By that your son kens me.
Now it is to be said of Thorgeir, that he turned from the blow as the axe smote the bottle, nor had he any wound; they made no search for the man because of the dark, so they rowed over the firths to Coldback, and told tidings of what had happed; thereat folk made much mocking, and called Thorgeir, Bottleback, and that was his by-name ever after. And this was sung withal
So they made the ship snug, and left men to watch her; but two of the company, with Earl Atli, rode up to Middalhof. It must be told of Atli that he was the best of the earls who lived in those days, and he ruled the Orkneys so well that men gave him a by-name and called him Atli the Good.
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