Quotations

• 1882 Alfred Tennyson: The Promise of May:

  For I have heard the Steers

  Had land in Saxon times; and your own name

  Of Harold sounds so English and so old

  I am sure you must be proud of it.

• 1984 Ruth Rendell: The Killing Doll Pantheon Books ISBN 0394530977 page 42:

  She called her husband Hal because no one else had ever done so and it had a dashing ring, rather out of keeping with Harold's appearance.