Word: epithets
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...further corridor talk some stated that Mr. Rankin had flung at Mr. Mills an unprintable epithet. Others averred that he had not done so, but had merely started to. Mr. Rankin settled the question: "I would never call any white man by that name...
Despite occasional lapses into quiescence, the species juvenilia continues to justify its Wordsworthian epithet of "mighty prophets, seer blest". Vibrations of exotic metre have scarcely died away in a certain quarter of Brooklyn when the evangelical eloquence of twelve year old Uldine Utley presages a great western spiritual movement. For Uldine, according to her biographer in the American Magazine, is the California child that has moved ten thousand men to lead better lives...
...Morgan Sr. was small-minded about his big nose; Rudyard Kipling, rude; Tom Nast, vain and petty; Mark Twain, grumpily grudging; Thomas Wanamaker, "a nasty little commercial person"; Woodrow Wilson, "a sort of swift floor-walker's smirk"; Joseph Pulitzer, a social climber, ingenious blasphemer ? for instance, the epithet, "too inde-god-dam-pendent...
...bell" and turned a valve emptying the pool "so that no one can possibly be drowned." The ice, of course, sagged and buckled into fragments as the supporting water flowed out. Disappointed skater-voters were reported in late despatches to be warming to their work of devising a suitable epithet with which to blast their once popular Burgomaster...
...three weeks ago. "Shylock," "the soul of Shylock" people muttered in the streets of Brussels, and; press set down the opprobrious words in black and white. The contemptuous words were not spoken of any of the departing gentlemen, all honored as able statesmen or financiers in their country sneering epithet was applied to an intangible person, that daddy-long-legs of symbolical figures, Uncle...