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  • We rented a teeny cottage in a pretty community called Charlestown, where the television series Hornblower is filmed (for those of you who know it).

    2009 July « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • We rented a teeny cottage in a pretty community called Charlestown, where the television series Hornblower is filmed (for those of you who know it).

    What I Did On Holiday « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Hornblower is a portrait of military man as intellectual, and Cook was the embodiment of scientist as adventurer.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • Hornblower is a portrait of military man as intellectual, and Cook was the embodiment of scientist as adventurer.

    It's Kirk the Explorer not Kirk the Rebel 2009

  • LONDON — Horatio Hornblower is an odd name but consider his siblings: Azubia, Constantia, Jecoliah, Jedidah, Jerusha and Erastus.

    Archive 2005-09-01 2005

  • They saw Hotspur at that same moment; from out of the darkness came the hail of a speaking-grumpet, but in the middle of a word Hornblower spoke down into the waist again.

    Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

  • Hornblower used the English word in default of French.

    Flying Colours Forester, C. S. 1938

  • Somewhat to Hornblower's surprise there were no other visitors; present in the cabin were only Cornwallis, and Collins, the sardonic Captain of the Fleet, and the flag lieutenant, whose name Hornblower vaguely heard as one of these new-wangled double barrelled names with a hyphen.

    Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

  • That was the beginning of a voyage which was destined to become legendary, just as did the hurricane which had just passed — it was called Hornblower's Hurricane, singled out not only because Hornblower was involved in it but also because its unexpected arrival caused widespread damage.

    Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

  • Something enormously painful was recalling Hornblower to life.

    Flying Colours Forester, C. S. 1938

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