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Hotspur

noun
1.
English soldier killed in a rebellion against Henry IV (1364-1403).  Synonyms: Harry Hotspur, Percy, Sir Henry Percy.
2.
A rash or impetuous person.



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"Hotspur" Quotes from Famous Books



... Was this Annixter who spoke—the Hotspur of the League, the quarrelsome, irascible fellow who loved and sought a quarrel? Was it Annixter, who now had been the first and only one of them all to suffer, whose ranch had been seized, whose household possessions had been flung out ...
— The Octopus • Frank Norris
... with Hotspur when after the battle he met the courtier who came to demand his prisoners, and when wounded and tired from the fight had to hear a long lecture over instruments of ...
— Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire • James Wycliffe Headlam
... Shrewsbury; Henry IV defeats the Percys, who had allied themselves with Glendower to place the Earl of March on the English throne; Harry Percy (Hotspur) slain. ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various
... on the same day. And that day was a Saturday, the red Saturday on which, in the unforgettable football match between Tottenham Hotspur and the Hanbridge F.C. (formed regardless of expense in the matter of professionals to take the place of the bankrupt Knype F.C.), the referee would certainly have been murdered had not a Five Towns crowd observed its ...
— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett
... on a seat, and watched her young attendants playing, while she turned over the pages of her prayer book. One pair especially her eyes followed with pleasure—the uncommonly beautiful Anna of Norfolk and young Henry Algernon Percy of Northumberland, Hotspur's descendant. The pair were playing with roses; the youth had an armful of white and the girl an armful of red roses, which they threw at each other, singing as ...
— Historical Miniatures • August Strindberg


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