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Ney enlisted at eighteen in a hussar regiment and gradually advanced step by step; Kleber soon discovered his merits, surnaming him "The Indefatigable," and promoted him to be adjutant-general when only twenty-five.

How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon

Ney enlisted at eighteen in a hussar regiment, and gradually advanced step by step: Kleber soon discovered his merits, surnaming him "The Indefatigable," and promoted him to be

Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858

The Cossack chiefs celebrated his exploits, one of them surnaming him the "hetmann."

World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France 1830

And now in the second place to shew, that the men whom we have been dealing with are no less artists in calling evil good, than in surnaming good evil; as they have imposed the name of papists upon us, so they have bestowed that of true protestants upon themselves, both of them certainly with equal truth and propriety.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823

And no less is the abuse in surnaming the prodigal person generous or liberal, while he is spending and borrowing, and borrowing and spending, and never considering that it is the height of injustice, as well as folly, to affect to be generous at other men's cost.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823

The abuse of surnaming the prodigal person, generous or liberal, iv.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823

So that let a man have but impudence and wickedness enough to libel his Maker, and to entitle the Spirit of God to all that he does or desires, surnaming his own inclinations and appetites (though never so irregular and impure) the Holy Ghost; and you may, upon very sure grounds, turn him loose, and bid him sin if he can.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823

(first surnaming it the Spirit,) the infallible, unappealable judge of all that was delivered in the written word.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

I am of Sylla's opinion; -- [ "Who freed his great deeds from envy by ever attributing them to his good fortune, and finally by surnaming himself Faustus, the Lucky."

The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 04 Michel de Montaigne 1562

I am of Sylla's opinion; -- [ "Who freed his great deeds from envy by ever attributing them to his good fortune, and finally by surnaming himself Faustus, the Lucky."

The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562