Outside, they killed Hector McMillan, a Canadian missionary, before joining the ranks of the fleeing rebels.
“The United States v. Hector Monsegur,” Judge Loretta Preska said.
On Tuesday, it was Hector Pagan, ex-husband of Mob Wives star Renee Graziano.
“Then maybe you should take up laundering yourself, Billy,” says Hector quietly.
One celebrated English author has gone that far already: “Plus another thing, Hector!”
Hector, the bulwark of Troy, had fallen, and the ruin of the city was at hand.
If the Devil did not run away with Hector Marot, pray who did?
Even Hector cut his stick (with Achilles after him) at the siege of Troy.
She will have but a poor opinion of me, if I do not appear an offended Hector!
Hector Hall interposed, his voice a growl between his teeth.
late 14c., "a valiant warrior," 1650s as slang for "a blustering, turbulent, pervicacious, noisy fellow" [Johnson], Heck for short, both in reference to the provocative character of Hektor, Trojan hero, oldest son of Priam and Hecuba, in the "Iliad." It represents Greek hektor, literally "holder, stayer;" an agent noun from ekhein "to have, hold, possess" (see scheme). The word was used mid-1600s in reference to London street gangs. As a proper name it is rare in England but used in Scotland to render Gaelic Eachdonn.
1650s, from Hector (n.), in reference to his encouragement of his fellow Trojans to keep up the fight. Related: Hectored; hectoring.
In classical mythology, a prince of Troy and the bravest of the Trojan warriors. At the end of the Trojan War, Achilles killed Hector and then dragged his body behind a chariot around the walls of Troy.
