Read full poem →Yet was smith by trade, and had travelled making horse-shoes
Far; in the army had seen some service with brave Sir Hector,
Wounded soon, and discharged, disabled as smith and soldier;
Dictionary Entry
Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a blusterer, bully.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “hector”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Thersites did Protesilaus survive;
And Hector died, his brothers yet alive.
My wench's vows for thee what should I show,
Read full poem →Or he who warred and wandered twenty year?
Or woful Hector whom wild jades did tear?
But when I praise a pretty wench's face,
Read full poem →All revive, like Hector's body,
And I see them stir again.
Read full poem →and between her and Calchas her father); 8296-8317 (Diomede captures
Troilus' horse, and presents it to Briseida); 8643-60 (death of Hector);
9671-7, 9864-82, 9926-9 (deeds of Troilus); 9942-59 (Briseida visits the
Read full poem →And Priam, hapless prince! who fell with Troy;
Himself was Hector's brother, and, had fate
But given this hopeful youth a longer date,
Read full poem →And Memnôn’s manhood was untimely spent;
It was for thee gold-crested Hector tried
With Thetis’ child that evil race to run,
Read full poem →Translation of Horace, Book ii. Ode ix.
Translation of part of the Dialogue between Hector and
Andromache.--From the Sixth Book of Homer's Iliad
Read full poem →She ceased: then godlike Hector answer'd kind,
(His various plumage sporting in the wind):
Read full poem →O how _transform'd!_
How much unlike that Hector, who _return'd_
Clad in Achilles' spoils!