Definition of Henry

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Definition of Henry
	Henry The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampere a second. Related Definitions: Ampere, At, Circuit, Current, Electric, Electro-Motive, Force, In, Induced, Inducing, Induction, Is, Of, One, Rate, Second, The, This, Unit, Volt, When, While

Henry Quotations

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
Alexis de Tocqueville

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.
Lee Iacocca

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
Robert Louis Stevenson

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.
Norman MacCaig

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.
Maureen O'Hara

Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone.
Minnie Pearl

On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses.
William Bligh

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.
Leslie Fiedler

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
Leslie Fiedler

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