forlorn hope

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• forlorn hope

  Officers and men detached on desperate service to make a first attack, or to be the first in mountin...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Forlorn

  ·noun A forlorn hope; a vanguard. II. Forlorn ·vt Deserted; abandoned; lost. III. Forlorn ·- of <<...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Hope

  ·noun A small bay; an inlet; a haven. II. Hope ·noun A sloping plain between mountain ridges. III....

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Hope

  One of the three main elements of Christian character (1 Cor. 13:13). It is joined to faith and love...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• hope

  A small bay; it was an early term for valley, and is still used in Kent for a brook, and gives name ...

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• Hope, Thomas

  (1770-1831) Novelist and writer on art, was a wealthy merchant of Amsterdam, of Scotch descent, his...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• "Hope, Anthony"

  see Hawkins, Anthony Hope. ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• flowing-hope

  See forlorn hope. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• lower-hope

  A well-known reach in the Thames where ships wait for the turn of the tide. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Hawkins, Anthony Hope ("Anthony Hope")

  (b. 1863) Novelist. The Prisoner of Zenda, The God in the Car, Dolly Dialogues, Rupert of Hentzau, ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Blakehors on the Hope

  See Blackhorse Alley, Court, Fleet Street. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Iren on the Hope

  A tenement so called in parish of St. Mary Magdalene in Olde fisshe-strete, in ward of Castle baynar...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.