Vulgar words in The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History (Page 1)
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Troops of musicians, singers, dancers, buffoons and dwarfs whiled away the tedious hours.
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At once bastard and minor, with competitors for his coronet arising at every moment, he was throughout the whole of his early life beset by troubles, none of which were of his own making, and he came honourably out of all.
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It was while Godwine dwelt as an exile at Bruges, and Harold was planning schemes of vengeance in the friendly court of Dublin, that William the Bastard, afterwards known as William the Conqueror, paid his memorable visit to England, that visit which has already been referred to as a stage, and a most important one, among the immediate causes of the Norman Conquest.