Sentence examples for henty from inspiring English sources

The local undertakers were pleased to discover the great Henty to be the man they had always imagined - a full-bearded giant, stern and wise, dressed like a warrior hero or - much the same thing - a Victorian gentleman with the whiff of gunpowder and the clash of sabres about him.

Henty was not completely a soldier, though he had chased many wars.

This, though, produced a "damned desire to be successful"; and Raymond became a useful source of medical details for his novels.Close to Graham were his younger siblings, Elisabeth, who was to become his secretary, and Hugh, to whom as a child he read adventure stories by Henry Rider Haggard, G.A. Henty and their cousin, Robert Louis Stevenson.

(Emilio Salgari in Italy, G.A. Henty in England, and "Ned Buntline" in the United States, who were contemporaneously satisfying the same hunger for the suspenseful, did not approach's May's talent for fabrication without the slightest root in reality).

Major deposits include iron ore at Savage River; lead, zinc, and silver at Williamsford and Rosebery; copper at Mount Lyell near Queenstown; gold at Beaconsfield, Henty, and Mount Lyell; and tin at Renison Bell.

In November 1834 the Henty family landed stock and stores at Portland, on the south coast, and in 1835 John Batman landed at Port Phillip.

Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh in 1928.

This new English school, stressing conscientious scholarship, realism, honesty, social awareness, and general disdain for mere swash and buckle, produced work that completely eclipsed the rusty tradition of Marryat and George Alfred Henty.

With his loosely extended family, curious theories on the doctrine of the Trinity, and a winning way with rum and lime, Christie was a gift; he stewed in Waugh's mind and emerged as McMaster, who dopes an English visitor, Paul Henty, with strong brews and never lets him go.

Haggard took the by-then already standard forms of boys' adventure books, as purveyed by Ballantyne and GA Henty, stripped them of their veneer of missionary-inflected chivalry, and made them sublime.

George Alfred Henty died aboard his ocean-racing yacht in Weymouth harbour 100 years ago last month.