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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
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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
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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
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anthony
The favourite or smallest pig in the litter.--To follow like a tantony pig, i.e. St. Anthony's pig; ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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hope
A small bay; it was an early term for valley, and is still used in Kent for a brook, and gives name ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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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
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Munday, Anthony
(1553-1633)
Dramatist, poet, and pamphleteer, s. of a draper in London, appears to have had a somew...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of
(1671-1713)
Philosopher, b. in London, grandson of the 1st Earl, the eminent statesman, the "Achito...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Trollope, Anthony
(1815-1882)
Novelist, s. of Thomas Anthony T., a barrister who ruined himself by speculation, and o...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Wood, or À Wood, Anthony
(1632-1695)
Antiquary, was b. at Oxf., where he was ed. and spent most of his life. His antiquarian...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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to knock anthony
Said of an in-kneed person, or one whose knees knock together; to cuff Jonas.
See *jonas.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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forlorn hope
A gamester's last stake.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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anthony pig
the favourite, or smallest pig of the litter or farrow. Kent.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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flowing-hope
See forlorn hope.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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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
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lower-hope
A well-known reach in the Thames where ships wait for the turn of the tide.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Froude, James Anthony
(1818-1894)
Historian and essayist, 3rd s. of the Archdeacon of Totnes, Devonshire, near which he w...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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(St.) Anthony, Hospital of
On the north side of Threadneedle Street (S. 181). In Broad Street Ward. Stow tells us that there wa...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(St.) Bartholomew beside St. Anthony
See St. Bartholomew by the Exchange.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blakehors on the Hope
See Blackhorse Alley, Court, Fleet Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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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.