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Hector (To)

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To swagger, or play the bully. It is hard to conceive how the brave, modest, noble-minded patriot came to be made the synonym of a braggart and blusterer like Ajax.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Heavy Man (The)
Heavy-armed Artillery (The)
Hebe
Hebertists
Hebron
Hecate
Hecatomb
Hector
Hector (A)
Hector (To)
Hectors
Hecuba
Hedge
Hedge Lane (London)
Hedge Priest
Hedge School (A)
Hedonism
Heel, Heels
Heel-tap
Heenan