Chapter Huldbrand to Hungarian Brothers of H by Brewer's Readers Handbook

In the Legends and Stories of Ireland (1832-34), by Samuel Lover, is a story almost identical, excepting that the “deceased” is an old woman.

Hunchback of Notre Dame.(See Quasimodo.)

Hundebert, steward to Cedric of Rotherwood—Sir W. Scott: Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.).

Hundred Fights (Hero of a), Conn, son of Cormac king of Ireland. Called in Irish “Conn Keadcahagh.”

Conn of a hundred fights, sleep in thy grass-grown tomb.—O Gnive.

Admiral Horatio lord Nelson is so called (1758–1805).

Hundred-Handed (The). Briareos or Ægæon, with his brothers Gygês and Kottos, were all hundredhanded giants.

Homer makes Briareos 4 syl.; but Shakespeare writes it in the Latin form, “Briareus,” and makes it 3 syl.

Then, called by thee, the monster Titan came,
Whom gods Briareös, men Ægeon name.
   —Pope: Iliad, 1 (1715).

He is a gouty Briareus. Many hands, And of no use.

Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, acti. sc. 2 (1602).

Hundwolf, steward to the old lady of Baldringham.—Sir W. Scott: The Betrothed (time, Henry II.).

Hungarian (An), one half-starved, one suffering from hunger. A pun.

He is hide-bound; he is an Hungarian.—Howell: English Proverbs (1660).

Hungarian Brothers (The), a romance by Miss A. M. Porter (1807).