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Updated: June 18, 2025
I was always at a loss to understand by what right the English designated us "Guerillas." They had, however, to withdraw the soubriquet at the Peace Negotiations, when they acknowledged that our leaders formed a legal government. Let me say a few words more about this term "Guerillas." We will suppose that England has captured New York, St.
I got very little satisfaction or comfort from my interview with the head of the firm, a Mr. William Anderson whose soubriquet was Gorgeous Bill, who told me that he could do nothing personally, that the matter would have to be submitted to the directors at their next weekly meeting, and that the probabilities were that they would enforce the rule and cancel the policy.
And this land of many races and dynasties, of conflicting ideals and religions, as of many tongues where domination was largely a matter of the stronger hand still held among the nations her ancient soubriquet of the happy isle.
This party consisted of twelve persons, at the head of whom were John Balfour of Kinloch, better known by his soubriquet of Burley, and his brother-in-law, David Hackstoun of Rathillet.
Goaded by defeat, Santa Anna never showed so much vigor; ambition fired Valencia; patriotism stirred the soul of Alvarez; Canalizo, maddened by the odium into which he had fallen, was boiling to regain his soubriquet of the "Lion of Mexico."
But she was entirely unprepared for the fervour with which, when he finished, he seized her by the shoulders and bounced her up and down. "Did you make all this up?" he cried. "Or do you mean she really doesn't want to marry that bounder?" "She really doesn't," answered Missy, not too engaged in steeling herself against his crunching of her shoulder bones to register the soubriquet, "bounder."
Jane, a girl of fifteen, the mother's supporter and helper, high spirited, energetic and courageous. Martin, a pleasure-seeking, fun-loving, mischief-making lad of twelve years. Anne, a timid child of ten years, who went by the soubriquet of the baby, by all except Lewis, who understood her better and called her the "fawn."
The house is the oldest in the town, and the business has descended in a direct line from father to son since the time of George the Second. This man's grandfather entertained the officers of William Duke of Cumberland, honoured by his contemporaries with the soubriquet of Billy the Butcher, during the "forty-five."
In his profession Weir had a reputation, built on relentless toil and sound ideas and daring achievements a reputation enhanced by a character of mystery, for the man was unmarried, reserved, without intimates or even friends, locking his lips about his life, and welcoming and executing with grim indifference to risk engineering commissions of extreme hazard, on which account he had acquired the soubriquet of "Cold Steel" Weir.
The servants are summoned by the exclamation of "Boy" instead of the Qui hi? which is so Indian-like in its expression, and has afforded a distinguishing soubriquet to the Bengallees. The word boy is said to be a corruption of bhaee, 'brother, a common mode of salutation all over the East.
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