"Hent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on the footpath way, And merrily hent the stile-a: A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad one tires in ...
— Oldport Days • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
... citing the above incident in his "Chronicles of Comical Kings," calls it "an hendy hap ichabbe y-hent." And ...
— Love Conquers All • Robert C. Benchley
... from an unmannerly carle such as I loathe; and by Allah, I will not speak a word nor sit with you, till ye put yonder quarrelsome churl out from among you!' Quoth the fellow's companion to him, 'This is what I warned thee against, fearing for thy good name.' So they hent him by the hand and thrust him out; and I took the lute and sang over again the songs of my own composing which the damsel had sung. Then I whispered the host that she had taken my heart and that I had no patience to abstain from her. Quoth he 'She is thine on one condition.' ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... in hands once them hent,[265] Them for to slay nought will I spare; We must fulfil Herod's commandment; Else be we as traitors, and cast ...
— Everyman and Other Old Religious Plays, with an Introduction • Anonymous |
