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The Right Honorable Edward Ellice, M.P. I have alluded to this remarkable man under the soubriquet attached to him for a generation "the old Bear." I assume that when his son, who for many years represented the Scotch constituency of the St. Andrews Burghs, grew up, the father became the "old" and the son the "young" Bear. Mr. Ellice was the son of Mr.
There was George Melrose, a successful South Australian pastoralist; there was my father's valued clerk, Thomas Laidlaw, who was long in the Legislative Council of New South Wales and the leading man in the town of Yass. "Honest Torn of Yass" was his soubriquet. Bound for Melbourne there were Mr. and Mrs.
Aboard the frigate he had been known as "Old Bill"; and the soubriquet still attached to him upon the spar. The presence of a ship's topsail-yard thus bestridden plainly proclaimed that a ship had been wrecked although no other evidence of the wreck was within sight.
Through the ability of her commander, Captain Karl von Müller, she earned the soubriquet "Terror of the East," for by using a clever system of supply ships she was able to raid eastern waters for ten weeks without making a port or otherwise running the risk of leaving a clue by which British ships might find her. Her favorite occupation was that of stopping enemy merchantmen which she sank.
I could not understand what there was in a worthless set of antlers to produce such joyful emotions; but as Blue Dick such was the soubriquet of my servant was not much given to idle exhibitions of feeling, I knew there must be something in it. "`Now, master, said he, addressing me, `if I had something else, I could promise you a shot at the long-tails, shy as they are. "`Something else!
His brow needs no ducal coronet to ennoble it! His name needs no title to illustrate it. The "princely Hereward!" "If all the men of his race resembled him, they well deserved this popular soubriquet. And whether this gentleman calls himself Mr.
And just to show him that she did not notice the change, and did not care, she was so gay and hoidenish, so full of repartee and laughter, that she saw him open his eyes in wonder more than once; and Doctor Bryan gave her the soubriquet of "Madcap Dorothy," which seemed to suit her exactly. There was no prank that could ever have entered a roguish girl's brain which she did not play upon Kendal.
The next experiment was with Hooker, a valiant and able man, whose warlike qualities are suggested by his well-earned soubriquet of "fighting Joe Hooker." He had his limitations, as will presently appear. But upon appointing him to the command Lincoln wrote him a personal letter.
He was comely in countenance, bulky and strong in person, and in the flower of his age yet inanimate in expression, dull-eyed, heavy-browed, inactive and sluggish in all his motions, and so slow in resolution, that the soubriquet of one of his ancestors was conferred upon him, and he was very generally called Athelstane the Unready.
Jimmie looked shiftily at the manager. "You mean..." He drew his hand significantly across his throat, raising his heavy eyebrows in a peculiar monkey grimace which had won for him his soubriquet. "Yes, to quiet his nerves. It's a shame to let these ambitious young policemen worry too much about their work." "I kin git it done fer twenty-five dollars."
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