1 The proprietor had a fine nickname: he was called Rousseau the Aquatic.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR 2 "That is my nickname," replied Laigle.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES 3 In this gayety of Paris, England cracked her whip; Lord Seymour's post-chaise, harassed by a nickname from the populace, passed with great noise.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 4 By the second day they had given her a nickname which made her furious.
5 So the king got the nickname of Grisly-beard.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In KING GRISLY-BEARD 6 Prince Andrew heard the nickname "Sila Andreevich" and the words, "Uncle will give it to us hot," in reference to Count Arakcheev.
7 This was Princess Myakaya, noted for her simplicity and the roughness of her manners, and nicknamed enfant terrible.
8 These two ladies were the chief representatives of a select new Petersburg circle, nicknamed, in imitation of some imitation, les sept merveilles du monde.
9 His comrades had nicknamed him Jean the Jack-screw.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 10 Mabeuf had nicknamed her Mother Plutarque.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF 11 Then a short laugh broke from his lips as he thought of that solitary farmhand in the kitchen gardens behind their house whom they had nicknamed the man with the hat.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 12 This was Maryino, also known as New-Wick, or, as the peasants had nicknamed it, Poverty Farm.