It was a road-side inn, old as the bridge itself-perhaps ancient as the Crusades, from which its cognomen had come.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
Whether this appellation of "Bluntie" was his own original name, or whether it was only a cognomen, I cannot positively aver, though I think the last is more than probable, as I never heard of any person of this name in Dumfriesshire, or, indeed, anywhere else.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
For Peter Crane had resolved to do a little investigating on his own hook, and he realized that since the girl at his home knew his present cognomen it must be changed.
"The Come Back"
Carolyn Wells