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HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spiri
he place where the dead live....
Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
-- William Sh...
Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Duenna, Act i, Sc. 5...
Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
-- Alphonso the Wise (1221-1284)...
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry VIII -- Act iii, Sc. 2...
Had I imagined 'Calvin and Hobbes' would last this long, I would have paced myself.
Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had.
(Said of Marlowe.) -- Michael Drayton (1563-1631) -- To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy...
Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto i, stanza 5...
Had this been an actual emergency, your spleen would have melted.

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