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  • They are as different as the characters in Saxo Grammaticus's "Hamblet" are from those in Shakespeare's "Hamlet."

    Confessions of a Book-Lover Maurice Francis Egan 1888

  • A year later, at precisely 9 a.m. in New York, Hamblet stopped the regulator for 3 minutes and 58.33 seconds—so that he could standardize time to a reading taken from a nearby observatory—and then restarted the machine, creating a new 9 a.m. sharp.

    The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

  • The fellow thumbing the watch springs to a halt was one James Hamblet, the general superintendent of the Time Telegraph Company and manager of the time service of Western Union.

    The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

  • Hamblet had invented an electric clock that could chime in a remote location, a device of great use for railway stations, which were required to display the time.

    The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

  • The way Hamblet and company went about melding railroad times brings back a lost world, one that seems quaint in our age of atomic clocks and handheld satellite navigators—we who always know exactly where and when we are, even if the road runs out.

    The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

  • In the English translation of the 'Hystorie of Hamblet,' from which

    Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

  • _Hystorie of Hamblet_, was published (or perhaps reprinted) in

    William Shakespeare John Masefield 1922

  • English translation of Belleforest's 'Hystorie of Hamblet' appeared before 1608; Shakespeare doubtless read it in the French.

    A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

  • "The Historye of Hamblet, Prince of Denmark:" Fergon "having secretly assembled certain men and perceiving himself strong enough to execute his enterprise, Horvendile, his brother, being at a banquet with his friends, sodainely set upon him, where he slewe him as treacherously, as cunningly he purged himselfe of so detestable a murder to his subjects."

    The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

  • "Well, it don't matter what it means -- it's nothin 'or nonsense, if you like -- but wot do _you_ mean, old man, ` that's the rub,' as Hamblet, or some such c'racter, said to his father-in-law; you ain't in airnest, are you?"

    Jarwin and Cuffy 1859

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