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joined it long ago; but, lo! she beheld him riding up with great speed. That night the king was aroused at midnight with the intelligence that the queen was dead.—Southey: Queen Orraca (1838); Francisco Manoel da Esperanca: Historia Serafica (eighteenth century).

Orrock (Puggie), a sheriff’s officer at Fairport.—Sir W. Scott: The Antiquary (time, George III.).

Orsin, one of the leaders of the rabble rout that attacked Hudibras at the bear-baiting.—S. Butler: Hudibras (1663).

(The prototype of this rabble leader was Joshua Gosling, who kept the Paris Bear-Garden, in Southwark.)

Orsini (Maffio), a young Italian nobleman, whose life was saved by Gennaro at the battle of Rimini. Orsini became the fast friend of Gennaro, but both were poisoned by the princess Negroni at a banquet.—Donizetti: Lucrezia di Borgia (opera, 1834).