| What may have been the meaning of the other element in his soubriquet is not so easy to say. |
| The soubriquet Holy Island was in use by the 11th century when it appears in Latin as Insula Sacra. |
| He was known among his comrades by the soubriquet of The Schoolmaster. |
| Her name was Susan, but he had always called her Posy, having himself invented for her that soubriquet. |
| He was toasted among the soldiery, and elsewhere also, under the soubriquet of Corporal Violet. |
| The soubriquet derives from the governor's now-legendry telephone conversation with a textile manufacturer called Kamel Nacif. |
