"Hastings" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The same Harald who, as King of Norway, would later challenge King Harald I for the throne of England. He lost at the Battle of Stamford Bridge—three weeks before Hastings (A.D. 1066).] ...
— Grettir The Strong - Grettir's Saga • Unknown
... of a very ancient Wiltshire family, which he respected above all families in the world: he could prove a lineal descent from King Edward the First, and his first ancestor, Roaldus de Richmond, rode by William the Conqueror's side on Hastings field. "We were gentlemen, Esmond," he used to say, "when the Churchills were horse-boys." He was a very tall man, standing in his pumps six feet three inches (in his great jack-boots, with his tall fair periwig, and hat and feather, he could ...
— The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. • W. M. Thackeray
... party were sitting in the veranda of one of the largest and handsomest bungalows of Poonah. It belonged to Colonel Hastings, colonel of a native regiment stationed there, and at present, in virtue of seniority, commanding a brigade. Tiffin was on, and three or four officers and four ladies had taken their seats in the comfortable cane lounging chairs which form the invariable ...
— Among Malay Pirates - And Other Tales Of Adventure And Peril • G. A. Henty
... general signs of these conditions, see, e.g., H. Meige, "L'Infantilisme, Le Feminisme et les Hermaphrodites Antiques," L'Anthropologie. 1895; also Hastings Gilford, "Infantilism," Lancet, February 28 and ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... Hastings, her newspaper friend, had been altogether a bird of ill omen. He had told her that the American market was glutted with "war stuff." The public was sick of it. Some of the magazines were advertising that they would read no more of it. She ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton
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