Word: bucephalus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While Rev. Joseph Cook was a student in the Andover Theological Seminary he acquired the sobriquet of "Bucephalus" from the following circumstance: He was noted for using very flowery language. Taking his turn one Sunday in preaching before the students, as was their wont, he used the phrase, "Like the half-starved and famished bucephalus would ruminate among the verdant clover, so will our famished souls enjoy the ethereal mansions...
...that he was in the habit of marking off the prairies at a remarkably cheerful gait. In short, I looked upon him as quite a jewel in an equine way. So when I came eastward, about the first of September, I brought Ceph (Ceph is familiar for Bucephalus) along with me, and we settled down in a little New Hampshire village, with the intention of wearing away the rest of the vacation there. It was one of those delightful little country places, where on the arrival of a stranger all local industries are for the time suspended until the entire...
Accordingly, one morning I harnessed Ceph to a light, airy sulky, and repaired to the Fair Grounds lying just outside the village. There was no one about. We should have full swing. The track was not in the best of order, but I remarked to Bucephalus, as I patronizingly patted his neck, that really we so seldom touched the ground, it made very little difference to us what condition...