Citations:Herbert

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English citations of Herbert

  • ~1593 William Shakespeare: Richard III: Act V, Scene III:
    And you, Sir Walter Herbert, stay with me.
  • 1966, George Alan Connor, Esperanto, the world interlanguage[1], T. Yoseloff, page 116:
    A helpful booklet for philatelists is the Filatela terminaro, by Herbert M. Scott, 3rd edition published by the Universal Esperanto Association in 1945.
  • 1989 David Leavitt: Equal Affections. →ISBN page 215:
    Herbert, Sydney, Milton, Seymour. You know, all the time I was growing up I thought those were the most ordinary Jewish first names, until someone pointed out that they were British last names. I guess to my great-grandparents those names must have sounded so modern, so sophisticated, so - non-Eastern European. And now they're just Uncle Miltie, Uncle Sy, Uncle Herb. Do other people have Uncle Donne and Uncle Wordsworth?