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Examples
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Hengist and Horsa, is his combined patience, swiftness, and certitude.
Lawgivers 1914
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The blood and the tradition of Hengist and Horsa are in his veins.
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Clive and Hastings, Drake and Raleigh, Hengest and Horsa, walked with him.
“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010
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Horsa; I am of the ancient heroes, even legendary to them.
CHAPTER XXXIV 2010
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Probably the biggest blunder in British history was Vortigern inviting Hengest and Horsa to help fight other British chieftains.
The Greatest Blunder in British History « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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Clive and Hastings, Drake and Raleigh, Hengest and Horsa, walked with him.
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Hengest and Horsa were invited, according to tradition, by the Romano-Britons themselves, after Honorius withdrew the legions from the island and left them defenceless against the Picts and Scots.
superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism superversive 2010
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Such issues as expansionism, linguistic imperialism, and cultural colonization link our own age, the previous ages in which Anglo-Saxon culture has been studied, and the Anglo-Saxon texts themselves: Hengst and Horsa, the place of Rome in the Renaissance and in Anglo-Saxon texts, the partnership of writing and death in Beowulf.
Reading Off the List: Only Connect Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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HB gives the list in the context of a period of upheaval "for forty years" and in the next sentence says Hengest and Horsa arrived "In the meantime..."
Cynddylan Carla 2009
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Yes, Hengist, Horsa and Vortigern are all actors in the same story.
A Bishop of Chester? Carla 2009
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