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Examples
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So might Vortigem have reasoned when he first called Hengist and Horsa to these shores.
The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983
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We Englishmen undoubtedly derive a large portion of our nautical spirit from our Saxon ancestors, the first bands of whom came to the shores of our tight little island under those sea-rovers known as Hengist and
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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“And you are here to help us, along with our Saxon friends,” – he held out an arm to Hengist, turning and smiling at him and the interpreter and then turning back to them – “against those invading scum from the north and against our shores.”
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Your sermons are as irrelevant to this discussion as the murder of the Briton lords by Hengist, the Han conquest of Yue, or the Iriquois beaver wars against the Illini.
Matthew Yglesias » Goldberg: The Middle East Is Complicated and It’s All the Arabs’ Fault 2010
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Your sermons are as irrelevant to this discussion as the murder of the Briton lords by Hengist, the Han conquest of Yue, or the Iriquois beaver wars against the Illini.
Matthew Yglesias » Goldberg: The Middle East Is Complicated and It’s All the Arabs’ Fault 2010
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“And you are here to help us, along with our Saxon friends,” – he held out an arm to Hengist, turning and smiling at him and the interpreter and then turning back to them – “against those invading scum from the north and against our shores.”
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The blood and the tradition of Hengist and Horsa are in his veins.
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We are perfected individualities, and ever since Hengist and Horsa55 it has been making imperfect ones.
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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Then Hengist, who had already consulted with the elders who attended him of the Oghgul race, demanded for his daughter the province, called in English Centland, in British, Ceint, Kent.
Archive 2009-10-01 Carla 2009
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Weren't Hengist and Horsa mixed up in the Vortigern thing?
A Bishop of Chester? Carla 2009
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