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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Holy Roman emperor and king of Germany (1106–1125) after dethroning his father, Henry V. He fought against Flanders, Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland and made a compromise agreement with the pope (1122).
- King of England (1413–1422) who succeeded his father, Henry IV, and suppressed the Lollards, executing their leader, Sir John Oldcastle (1417). He also reopened the Hundred Years' War, defeating the French at Agincourt (1415) and capturing all of Normandy by 1419.
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- noun son of Henry IV and King of England from 1413 to 1422; reopened the Hundred Years' War and defeated the French at Agincourt (1387-1422)
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I mean, this is a writer who wrote "Henry V," let ` s say, about a kind of charismatic warrior king.
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Pistol utters the word “firk” in Shakespeare’s Henry V, which is a bit like the characters in Battlestar Galactica saying “frak”Michael JenningsQuote
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Parts 1 & 2, "" Henry V "and his own adaptation of Dostoevsky's" The Brothers Karamazov
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Parts 1 & 2, "" Henry V "and his own adaptation of Dostoevsky's" The Brothers Karamazov
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Parts 1 & 2, "" Henry V "and his own adaptation of Dostoevsky's" The Brothers Karamazov
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I think this will be as good if not a better season than we have done in the past, "he says of a summer that includes" Henry V, "" The Comedy of Errors "and" As You Like It. "
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He speculated on how the burden of all the armour might have affected the course of the battle of Agincourt in 1415, in which Henry V's lightly armoured soldiers defeated the French army.
Heavy armour would have exhausted the French at Agincourt, say scientists 2011
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But come "Henry V," Falstaff is nowhere to be seen, and we hear about how he has died, a death that, conveniently, takes place offstage.
Contract Killings on the Sets of Soaps and Sitcoms Eric Felten 2011
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At the double bill that heads off with Henry V, Shakespeare's most ballsy drama, the audience is greeted with balaclavaed figures who muscle on to a scaffolded stage with sticks and big boots.
She Stoops to Conquer; Henry V, The Winter's Tale – review 2012
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Henry V led his troops to a victory that crippled France and began a new phase in the war.
Eurozone crisis fails to ignite French animosity against 'les rosbifs' 2011
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