Epithets
[epə,θets]
Examples
- Soft is the very word for her eyeof all epithets, the justest that could be given. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Brief self-spurning epithets burst from her lips when alone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She showered upon him the tenderest epithets that love could devise, he addressed her from the North Pole of his frozen heart as the Spouse of Christ! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- These epithets--these attributes I put from me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This fixation has brought down upon the socialists a torrent of abuse in which atheism and materialism are prevailing epithets. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I should think one of those epithets would do at a time, said Mary, trying to smile, but feeling alarmed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They went away finally with a closing burst of ridicule and offensive epithets. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Do you remember the happy epithets? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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