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Hythe   Listen
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Hythe  n.  A small haven. See Hithe. (Obs.) "A dictionary containing a natural history requires too many hands, as well as too much time, ever to be hoped for."






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"Hythe" Quotes from Famous Books



... the unchanged southern side of the pier seems pleasanter, with its boat-builders' shops, all facing sunward,—a cheerful haunt upon a winter's day. On the early maps this wharf appears as "Queen-Hithe," a name more graceful than its present cognomen. "Hithe" or "Hythe" signifies a small harbor, and is the final syllable of many English names, as of Lambeth. Hythe is also one of those Cinque-Ports of which the Duke of Wellington was warden. This wharf was probably still familiarly called Queen-Hithe in 1781, when Washington and Rochambeau walked its ...
— Oldport Days • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

... to Parliament, in 1837, for Maidstone, mainly, by the exertions and influence of his agent, Mr. Richard Hart, the eminent solicitor. Mr. Hart was my friend and agent on my return for the borough of Hythe, ...
— Canada and the States • Edward William Watkin



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