Howel's

This transient glance served rather to irritate than to appease my curiosity; and as soon as I returned to Bath I procured the second and third volumes of Howel's History of the World, which exhibit the Byzantine period on a larger scale.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

In addition to this, Howel's own debts, both on the turf and to his tradesmen, were enormous, and ignominy surrounded him on all sides.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

This had been Howel's occupation within four-and-twenty hours of his conviction!

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

He laid bare Howel's heart to himself, for the first time that it had ever been so exposed, and then showed him the denunciations of the law against sin.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

Howel's countenance changed at once -- the flush of passion passed away, and left a painful pallor, whilst the sarcastic mouth became compressed into a marble rigidity.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

Howel's name was never mentioned, except between Netta and Gladys.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

He took the hall wall, and pulled it to ground; the chamber's door he cast down, so that it burst in five; he found in the chamber the fairest of all maids; Helen she was named, of noble race; Howel's daughter, noble man of Britanny, Arthur's relative of most noble lineage.

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Her own grief was too real to allow even the sceptical Owen to doubt it; and when, in addition, she gave him to understand that she, too, was nearly ruined by Howel's forgeries, but that she would die rather than tell any one else of it, he could only pity the wretched mother who had, by her bad example and teaching, helped to train her son for the ruin into which he had fallen.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

He went to Britanny, to the best of all mansions, to Howel's castle, noble man in Britanny; the gates he all brake in pieces, and within he gan wend.

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At the same time Sir Samuel Spendall's attorneys found, from a rigid examination of that baronet's affairs, that Howel's claim on him did not amount to two-thirds of his demand, and that various signatures to betting debts, and loans of money, etc., were forgeries.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale