"Euphonism" Quotes from Famous Books
... colts or calves. It was then, moreover, that he gave himself the name which he has ever since retained and honoured. He had been called Booker as a child-slave; for some reason his mother had added Taliaferro, but the final Washington was a becoming euphonism of his own. ... — From Slave to College President - Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington • Godfrey Holden Pike |