"Hough" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that the black Mulberry has been known from the earliest records of antiquity and that it is twice mentioned in the Bible: namely, in the second Book of Samuel and in the Psalms. When New Place was in the possession of Sir Hough Clopton, who was proud of its interesting association with the history of our great poet, not only were Garrick and Macklin most hospitably entertained under the Mulberry tree, but all strangers on a proper ...
— Flowers and Flower-Gardens • David Lester Richardson
... Hollomand, second lieutenant, Washington, D.C. Wayne L. Hopkins, second lieutenant, Columbus, Ohio. James L. Horace, second lieutenant, Little Rock, Ark. Reuben Homer, captain, U.S. Army. Charles S. Hough, second lieutenant, Jamestown, Ohio. Charles H. Houston, first lieutenant, Washington, D.C. Henry C. Houston, captain, U.S. Army. Cecil A. Howard, first lieutenant, Washington, D.C. Clarence K. Howard, second lieutenant, Montgomery, Ala. Charles P. Howard, first lieutenant, Des Moines, Ia. Arthur ...
— History of the American Negro in the Great World War • W. Allison Sweeney
... Then up bespake the good Laird's Jock, The best falla in the companie; 'Sitt thy way down a little while, Dicke, And a peice of thine own cow's hough I'l ...
— Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance - Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series • Various
... are known to have been domiciled in the square: Bishop Mawson of Ely, who died here in 1770; Bishop Herring of Bangor, a very notable prelate, who was afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury; and in the south-western corner Bishop Hough of Oxford, Lichfield, and Worcester had a fine old house until 1732. The Convent of the Assumption now covers the same ground in Nos. 20 to 24. The original object of the convent was prayer for the conversion of England to the Roman Catholic faith, but the sisters ...
— The Kensington District - The Fascination of London • Geraldine Edith Mitton
... door to door, like auld Bessie Bowie, begging bawbees, than to be a king's daughter, fiddling and flinging the gate she did. I hae often wondered that ony ane that ever bent a knee for the right purpose, should ever daur to crook a hough to fyke and fling at piper's wind and fiddler's squealing. And I bless God (with that singular worthy, Peter Walker the packman at Bristo-Port),* that ordered my lot in my dancing days, so that fear of my head and throat, dread ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... Sylvester, who kept a grammar school in the parish of All Saints in Oxford. In the year 1624, the same in which his father was Mayor of the city, he was entered a member of the university of Oxford, in Lincoln's-Inn College, under the tuition of Mr. Daniel Hough, but the Oxford antiquary is of opinion, he did not long remain there, as his mind was too much addicted to gaiety, to bear the austerities of an academical life, and being encouraged by some gentlemen, who admired the vivacity of his genius, he repaired to court, in hopes of making his ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume II • Theophilus Cibber
... from domestic anxieties by an uninvited visit to Portchester from Mr. Charnock, who had once been a college mate of Mr. Fellowes, and came professing anxiety, after all these years, to renew the friendship which had been broken when they took different sides on the election of Dr. Hough to the Presidency of Magdalen College. From his quarters at the Rectory Mr. Charnock had gone over to Fareham, and sounded Sir Philip on the practicability of a Jacobite rising, and whether he and his people would ...
— A Reputed Changeling • Charlotte M. Yonge
... feet, and saw that the raiders were beginning to hough the cattle One man was driving a red spear into a helpless beast. It might have been the Cleuch cow. The sight maddened him, and like a destroying angel he was among them. One man he caught full in the throat, ...
— The Moon Endureth—Tales and Fancies • John Buchan |
