82 Metaphors for henry

Henry was a ponderous, Clydesdale kind of Man, with Warts on his Hands.

A little management, a little less of boyish pride, and he might have found the means to go forward to his degree, with pleasant hopes in the background; but Henry was a Radical, a scorner of privilege, a believer in human perfectibility.

" "But what is the secret, Sir Henry?" asked Hamilton eagerly.

But out spake gentle Henry then: 'No Frenchman is my foe; Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go!'

Henry was a covetous mean prince, and entirely devoted to the council of Emson and Dudley, who then were very justly reckoned the caterpillars of the state.

Sir Henry must be the victim of a hallucination.

A discarded lover, he said, was the last person in the world to whom a young girl like Margaret would go, particularly as Theo had said that Henry was now the husband of another.

[Illustration: HENRY'S FIRST AND LAST RESOLUTIONS (FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL DRAFT)]

John 1. of Portugal, married Philippa, the eldest daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, son to Edward III. of England, by whom he had several sons, of whom Don Henry was the fifth.

During the twenty years which Sir Henry was ambassador at Venice, he had the good fortune to be so well respected by all the Dukes, and the leading men of the Republic, that his interest every year increased, and they seldom denied him any favour he asked for his countrymen who came to Venice; which was, as Walton expresses it, a city of refuge for all Englishmen who were any way distressed in that Republic.

Sir Henry was not a fanciful person, but a real individual; and the political views attributed to him were those of the Lee family, who remained faithful to the royal cause in all its hours of adversity.

In the eyes of the world, however, Henry was still the most renowned among the kings of the earth in his unassailable triumph and success.

And Henry was not only a powerful sovereign by his great territorial possessions, but also for his tact and ability.

Marble Hill was built by George II, for the countess of Suffolk, and Henry, Earl of Pembroke, was the architect.

Henry had once been Tom's father's slave and carriage driver.

Some of the Folks who had got into a Box through Poor Management, and had been Foreclosed out of House and Home by Henry and his Lawyer, used to say that Henry was a Skin, and was too Stingy to give his Family enough to Eat, but most People looked up to Henry, for there was no getting around it that he was Successful.

"My dear Henry, "I were an imbecile ingrate if I did not hasten to give you my warmest thanks for the splendid entertainment of last night.

It is evident that their intent was against Justice Hawkins, and the fact that Sir Henry was the presiding Judge at the recent anarchists' trial points the connection between the outrage and other anarchists....

Henry and he were great friends on literary matters; and Dot and he had had many talks, greatly helpful to her, on spiritual things.

She told me that she had heard Professor Henry speak of me, and that Professor Henry was one of her best friends, the truest man she knew.

It might have been better for them had Henry remained the head of their party rather than become King of France, since he might not have afterwards deserted them.

Prince William Henry, afterwards King William IV, was the first member of the Royal Family to set foot in the New World when he arrived in H.M.S. Pegasus in 1787.

Henry was my father, you know.

Henry was the fifth son.

Henry was a dear old fellow, she openly confided to her friends, but his affliction made him terribly trying.

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