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Ethelbert

[ US /ˈɛθɪɫbɝt/ ]
NOUN
  1. Anglo-Saxon king of Kent who was converted to Christianity by Saint Augustine; codified English law (552-616)

How To Use Ethelbert In A Sentence

  • At length one noticed the fact, and another; and then it became the general topic of conversation in the group upon the bridge, where Ethelberta, her hair getting frizzed and her cheeks carnationed by the wind, sat upon a camp-stool looking towards the prow. The Hand of Ethelberta
  • Men call Ethelbert a martyr now, I suppose because he was slain. A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford
  • Moreover, the Northumbrian monarchy already had produced one saint and martyr, Oswald, whose death was at the hands of the heathen Mercian king Penda, of whom Wulfhere certainly, and Aethelbert probably, was a son. The Staffordshire Hoard Appeal
  • More plausible and quick-witted was a smooth-tongued operator who employed the alias ‘Ethelbert Louis Hector Alfred, Baron de Richemont’.
  • From Anselm, I was transferred first to Amber ward and then to a halfway house on Ethelbert Road. Henry’s Demons
  • Often at such conjunctures as these, when the futility of her great undertaking was more than usually manifest, did Ethelberta long like a tired child for the conclusion of the whole matter; when her work should be over, and the evening come; when she might draw her boat upon the shore, and in some thymy nook await eternal night with a placid mind. The Hand of Ethelberta
  • Neigh's position might furnish scope for such a disillusive discovery by herself as hers had afforded to Christopher, decoyed Ethelberta into a curious little scheme. The Hand of Ethelberta
  • The meeting was held in the open air; for Ethelbert had a superstitious fear that they might do him some mischief by magical arts, if he were to trust himself under a roof with them.
  • Justus he hallowed as bishop in Kent itself at Rochester, which is four-and-twenty miles right west from Canterbury, in which city likewise King Ethelbert ordered to build a church, and to hallow it to St. Andrew the apostle; and to each of these bishops the King gave his gifts and bookland and possessions for them to brook with their fellows. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
  • Ethelbert's Gate#, to the south, is an early "Decorated" structure. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See
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