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The name was originally applied in a spirit of derision, as a nick-name in fact, by the opponents of the Church; and was doubtless suggested by the title of a prominent publication given to the world through Joseph Smith in an early period of the Church's history. Nevertheless, the people have accepted the name thus thrust upon them, and answer readily to its call.
But if there happen to be an unduly slender, clumsy, or timorous wight in the ship, that wight is certain to be made a ship-keeper. It was so in the Pequod with the little negro Pippin by nick-name, Pip by abbreviation. Poor Pip! ye have heard of him before; ye must remember his tambourine on that dramatic midnight, so gloomy-jolly.
She accepted this cruelly appropriate nick-name as a mark of affectionate familiarity which honored a servant. No other person was allowed to take liberties with her: to every one but her mistress she was known as Mrs. Ellmother. "How is my aunt?" Emily asked. "Bad." "Why have I not heard of her illness before?" "Because she's too fond of you to let you be distressed about her.
Needless to say, my own lack of self-control during the afternoon had been as unexpected as it was disappointing, but when it comes to anything that concerns Jim, I'm not responsible. I rang the bell and Mary, herself, came to the door, looking radiant as usual. "Hello, Buppkins!" She greeted me with that detestable nick-name she has used since I wore rompers.
'I say to him, says Keats, 'why not the pen sometimes first? We don't like precision; look at the word 'Methodist, which originally was a nick-name for people of strictly disciplined life. We like something a little more gay and inconsequent. "Yet the power of forcing oneself by an act of will to do something unpleasant is one of the finest qualities in the world.
An adventurer pure and simple in an alien land, this sharp-witted Norman in course of time obtained the nick-name of Guiscard, or the Wiseacre, and on the death of his elder brother he was nominated Count of Apulia by acclamation of the Norman followers, to the exclusion of his helpless young nephews.
"I say, Mary," he said. "Yes, Quinny!" she answered, turning to him. So she had not forgotten that she had called him by his nick-name. "I say, Mary," he said again, still undecided as to whether he should speak his mind or not. "Yes?" she repeated. He went up a step or two of the stairs. "Oh, I don't know," he exclaimed. "I only wanted to say how nice it is to be here again!" "Oh, yes!"
This was the somewhat uncomplimentary nick-name by which Holmes was known, bestowed upon him on account of his talkative tendencies as contrasted with the laconic sententiousness of Hazon. "I rule, therefore," went on the king, "that Nomtyeketye be taken hence to where atonement is offered. The other may depart from among us to his own land."
Holymead was that after he had left the ladies and was walking in the direction of the cab-rank he spoke to one of the former occupants of the gallery. This was a man known to the police and his associates as "Kincher." His name was Kemp, and how he had obtained his nick-name was not known. He was a criminal by profession and had undergone several heavy sentences for burglary.
SHAVERS, as a quaint nick-name for children, is possibly inexplicable, unless we resort to Gipsy, where we find it used as directly as possible. Chavo is the Rommany word for child all the world over, and the English term chavies, in Scottish Gipsy shavies, or shavers, leaves us but little room for doubt.
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