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  • Nobody could pretend, as they looked at the shuffle of shilling shockers that week-enders had dropped, that the looking-glass always reflected the anguish of a Queen or the heroism of King Harry.

    Between the Acts 2004

  • The maternal grandparents are King Harry, a prize winner at

    Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow

  • King's deer, and by the laws of King Harry your head remains forfeit.

    Robin Hood 1917

  • I ween that King Harry had never watched the invasion of an enemy with more anxiety than he now felt.

    Robin Hood 1917

  • Now we will proclaim a general amnesty, as did King Harry himself, and say that the field is open and unmolested to all comers.

    Robin Hood 1917

  • She almost choked in rage, and then fell to swearing as furiously in that moment as old King Harry at his worst.

    The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • His father, on the field of Agincourt, after having wounded the Duke of York and stricken him to the ground, crossed swords with King Harry, and then, overwhelmed by numbers, had fallen under a rain of blows.

    Joan of Arc Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 1893

  • Marjorie again and again in the last two or three years on the subject of wandering priests, calling them "gentlemen," with the greatest care, and allowing no indiscreet word ever to appear in his letters, He remembered King Harry, whom he had seen once in a visit of his to

    Come Rack! Come Rope! Robert Hugh Benson 1892

  • I do love to let my hunger grow mightily keen ere I eat, for then a dry crust is as good to me as a venison pasty with suet and raisins is to stout King Harry.

    The Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 1882

  • Little John had come to look upon all the deer in Sherwood as belonging to Robin Hood and his band as much as to good King Harry.

    The Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 1882

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