Epithets

Compound Epithets I do not much like; because they are often such as we never use in conversation; there are three in my 'Word to the young ladies' [7] which I deem such as are often used in conversation,' full blown, '' out-run 'but

Letter 94 2009

Epithets were few and far between from him and idle banter was unknown.

Freedom from Fear: Being a Stand-up Human Being. 2009

Epithets flow like counterfeit champagne – pearls cast that malign are equally germane:

Archive 2008-09-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

Epithets flow like counterfeit champagne – pearls cast that malign are equally germane:

Pissy-Eyed Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

Epithets come in different semantic patterns which then likewise show different grammatical patterns.

Selvans Canzate: a 'pure guess' 2007

Epithets to the United States had been spray-painted on the paneled walls.

Where There's Smoke Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1994

This Constitution will be allowed to deserve all the Epithets I have given it, when it is considered, that they found Ways to make the World believe that God had entrusted them with

John Adams diary 10, includes legal notes, 24 January - 21 February 1765, August 1765 1961

Some of our vulgar writers take great pleasure in giuing Epithets and do it almost to euery word which may receiue them, and should not be so, vea though they were neuer so propre and apt, for sometimes wordes suffered to go single, do giue greater sence and grace than words quallified by attributions do.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Epithets in popular discourse were openly hurled at political antagonists that decent men would not tolerate to-day, and the public press gave expression to charges and insinuations against honorable partisans such as none but the very yellowest and most debauched journals would now deem it expedient to print.

As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur

_Genuine_, that have been indisputably _Spurious_ for so many Ages: But let these Gentlemen consider, whether they pass not the same Judgment on an Author, as a Woman does on a Man, by the gayety of his Dress, or the gaudy Equipage of his Epithets.

Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning Gregory Griffin