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- Beowulf is the best-known work of Old English literature.
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- Then suddenly he saw the old English Club and realized that they must be on Tverskaya—the ancient road that radiated from the Kremlin in the direction of St. Petersburg, and that he had strolled a thousand times before.† (source)
- The word: she tried to prevent it sounding in her thoughts, and yet it danced through them obscenely, a typographical demon, juggling vague, insinuating anagrams—an uncle and a nut, the Latin for next, an Old English king attempting to turn back the tide.† (source)
- Her computer was clogged with old English papers from two years ago, and even though they'd gotten A's back then they were probably embarrassingly bad and should be deleted.† (source)
- He ended up where he always hung out—on the back steps of the closed and dreary Clinton Elementary School, sitting with his friends, sharing a forty-ounce bottle of Old English Malt Liquor.† (source)
- The term hijack comes from an old English word that means 'to capture,' or even better, 'seize.† (source)
- The document had been completed and signed in less than three hours — fast work for a shyster — and now resided in Hallorann's breast pocket, folded into a stiff blue envelope with the word WILL on the outside in Old English letters.† (source)
- We played Kool and the Gang songs for hours, smoking weed, drinking Old English 800 malt liquor, and rehearsing in the drummer's basement for days at a time until the guy's mother threw us out, at which time we'd find another place to jam.† (source)
- The two old English ladies lived on top, and I lived in a room on the basement floor of the cottage.† (source)
- What I mean is that since the preponderance of cultural influences has come down to us from European early settlers, and since those early settlers inflicted their values on the "benighted" cultures they encountered ("benighted," from the Old English, meaning "anyone darker than myself"), those inflicted values have gained ascendancy.† (source)
- Fiercely independent and loud, he yanked my brother and me into his world of James Brown, Jackie Wilson and SamCooke, of barroom dances, Old English 800 Malt Liquor Beer and weight lifting.† (source)
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- Bold black old English script, stretching fromthe front to the rear fender, announces THE WAGES OF SIN IS A BUCK FIFTY.† (source)
- Let me whisper the terrible word, from the Old English, from the Old German, from the Old Norse.† (source)
- Sophie and Josh watched as the letters shifted on the page like tiny beetles, shaping and reshaping themselves, becoming briefly almost legible in recognizable languages like Latin or Old English, but then immediately dissolving and re-forming into ancient-looking symbols not unlike Egyptian hieroglyphs or Celtic Ogham.† (source)
- A real old English butler.† (source)
- For the time being one can meditate on the fact that the old English roots for the Buddha and Quality, God and good, appear to be identical.† (source)
- You had to know Old English and the History of the English Language and a representative selection of all that had been written from Beowulf to the present day.† (source)
- I've brought you back your—those little books of Old English Poetry," she said, with a sudden constriction in her throat, and a quick burning flush that suffused brow, cheek and neck.† (source)
- She sings a snippet of song, something I recognize faintly as being an old English folk tune.† (source)
- "Franklin Runyon Sousley" reminds you that the hillfolk of Kentucky still carried in their culture the calcified rhythms and accents of Old English, carried across the Atlantic and into the mountain wilderness.† (source)
- "Old English to Teutonic, to Italian, and…mmm, Latin…," he murmured, more to himself than anyone else.† (source)
- And I'll send a great big check to my old English teacher, Mrs. James, so she can restock the school library.† (source)
- "I'll see you at six," she called out cheerfully, and left me stuck there face to face with a fat man buying two boxes of Super Snax and a bottle of Old English.† (source)
- Since riding Gonzo she'd come to prefer it to her old English one.† (source)
- She switched nervously to Old English.† (source)
- Neither am I. My job came about thanks to my old English teacher, Mr. Selalame.† (source)
- Frederic G. Cassidy, editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, notes that in Old English the word was acsian but over time the "ks" sound was reversed.† (source)
- In the middle of the 19th century, a 17-year-old English officer was ordered to organize the building of a road from Colombo to Kandy.† (source)
- And yet with all the lights on and the music and the silhouetted figures behind the curtains moving around dancing, there was a strange festivity to the warm autumn air, as if the place were the site of a favorite seasonal fete, as in those old English novels of Sunny's that I would glance at from time to time.† (source)
- The Whitshanks' silverware was real sterling, embossed with an Old English W. She wondered when they had acquired it.† (source)
- Throw away every book, table, instrument, and start over? I know that some of my ancestors did that in switching from old English units to MKS—but they did it to make things easier.† (source)
- Seen from this distance, it looked like one of the old English villages with a castle in the center and the stables and peasant homes around it.† (source)
- BOAR'S HEAD INN, read the Old English letters around the china rim, AN AMERICAN LANDMARK.† (source)
- Those hymns set your feet moving like the march played on the piano for us to enter Davis School—"Dorothy,an Old English Dance" was the name of that, and of course so many of the Protestant hymns reached down to us from the same place; they were old English rounds and dance tunes, and Charles Wesley and the rest had—no wonder—taken them over.† (source)
- After we've learned 'Fflat Huw Puw' we'll learn 'The Dream of the Rood' in Old English.† (source)
- Waste is an interesting word that you can trace through Old English and Old Norse back to the Latin, finding such derivatives as empty, void, vanish and devastate.† (source)
- "I also get a smattering of Old English, and a few words of Hebrew, but the rest is dead impossible," said Charles.† (source)
- They use slippy for slippery; red up meaning to tidy up; nebby, an Old English word for nosy; and anymore, as in " 'Anymore, there's so many new buildings you can't tell which is which."† (source)
- He was once again merely a student/soldier, whose greatest responsibilities involved reading Old English manuscripts and making sure he didn't leave his rifle in a trench.† (source)
- Sometimes they drilled to "Dorothy, an Old English Dance," and sometimes to Fur Elise-everybody out of kilter.† (source)
- Because he's a gentleman, a true old English gentleman.† (source)
- It isn't just setting, that hoary old English class topic.† (source)
- I mean to say, Stevens, this is a genuine grand old English house, isn't it?† (source)
- What you got in that thing, a dead body?" cried Gabriella to Aldo in good old English.† (source)
- Buddy looked at me then, and in his eyes I saw a flicker of strangeness-the same compound of curiosity and wariness I had seen in the eyes of the Christian Scientist and my old English teacher and the Unitarian minister who used to visit me.† (source)
- I had on a T-shirt, cut off at the shoulders, with "The Animal Tribe" in old English lettering on the back writtenin shoe polish and a long pair of county-jail pants, called "counties," over a couple of black Tijuana sandals.† (source)
- In the back lot of the local elementary school, about a year after Tines death, five of us gathered in the grass and created a club — "Thee Impersonations," the "Thee" being an old English usage that other clubs would adopt because it made everything sound classier, nobler, badder.† (source)
- When I wrote to my new employer conveying my regrets at the situation, I received by reply from America instructions to recruit a new staff 'worthy of a grand old English house'.† (source)
- I began with Slade's place, had no luck, asked Slade to try to hang on to Dr. Stanton if he came in, and then moved through the other establishments of chromium, glass bricks, morros, colored lights, comfy Old English worm-eaten oak, sporting prints, comic frescoes, or three-piece orchestras.† (source)
- The years passed regularly and the Old English snow lay as it was expected to lie—sometimes with a Robin Redbreast in one corner of the picture, a church bell or lighted window in the other—and in the end it was nearly time for Kay's initiation as a fullblown knight.† (source)
- It is so thoroughly Old English.† (source)
- All his relaxations—baseball, golf, movies, bridge, motoring, long talks with Paul at the Athletic Club, or at the Good Red Beef and Old English Chop House—were necessary to Babbitt, for he was entering a year of such activity as he had never known.† (source)
- Though no more Old English than the works of Kipling, it had selected its reminiscences so adroitly that her criticism was lulled, and the guests whom it was nourishing for imperial purposes bore the outer semblance of Parson Adams or Tom Jones.† (source)
- It was written in a script that was clear and neat but a bit "Old English" in style, its characters reminding me of German calligraphy.† (source)
- "So you've come to say good-bye to your old English teacher," she said, pleased.† (source)
- Our old English ballads, for instance, were not created by the "folk," but by the post-feudal squirearchy of the English countryside, to survive in the mouths of the folk long after those for whom the ballads were composed had gone on to other forms of literature.† (source)
- In the morning old da Fiori, his tiny father, came out in a cap and old English type of suit, dark green, fuzzy, with a belt on the jacket and chestnut buttons.† (source)
- She sits down by the bird-breasted stove in the salon, on the chair the old English gent Ryehurst warned me--having damages in mind--was a genuine Chippendale, and she's calm, intelligent, forceful, vital, tremendously handsome, and this is how she wants to put herself across.† (source)
- Perhaps the reason for this was that the boar season happened in the two winter months, when the old English snow would be liable to ball in your horse's hoofs and render galloping too dangerous.† (source)
- And reddest of all shone the cottage fires down the main street of an evening, while the winds howled outside and the old English wolves wandered about slavering in an appropriate manner, or sometimes peeping in at the key-holes with their blood-red eyes.† (source)
- By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the old English capital.† (source)
- By old English statutory law, the whale is declared "a royal fish.† (source)
- The father and mother were in the old English style, and the young people in the new.† (source)
- But then I am in a gentleman's family—good old English stock.† (source)
- A woman should be able to sit down and play you or sing you a good old English tune.† (source)
- …of the house as he faced it, in the center of which was a boy holding a swan in his arms, and to the right of the house one lone cast iron stag pursued by some cast iron dogs, he felt especially impelled to admire, and charmed by the dignity of this place, which was a modified form of old English, he now inquired of a stranger who was passing—a middle-aged man of a rather shabby working type, "Whose house is that, mister?" and the man replied: "Why, that's Samuel Griffiths' residence.† (source)
- This progress you will see easily in that old English ballad TURPIN HERO which begins in the first person and ends in the third person.† (source)
- Their thoughts were diverted by the voice of the auctioneer: "Now this antique oak settle—a unique example of old English furniture, worthy the attention of all collectors!"† (source)
- Mrs. Archer and her son and daughter, like every one else in New York, knew who these privileged beings were: the Dagonets of Washington Square, who came of an old English county family allied with the Pitts and Foxes; the Lannings, who had intermarried with the descendants of Count de Grasse, and the van der Luydens, direct descendants of the first Dutch governor of Manhattan, and related by pre-revolutionary marriages to several members of the French and British aristocracy.† (source)
- The old English hunting prints on the wall were Tom's, and the large tapestry by courtesy, a relic of decadent days in college, and the great profusion of orphaned candlesticks and the carved Louis XV chair in which no one could sit more than a minute without acute spinal disorders—Tom claimed that this was because one was sitting in the lap of Montespan's wraith—at any rate, it was Tom's furniture that decided them to stay.† (source)
- , where, it is historically true, there are more old English families than you would find in any six English counties taken together.† (source)
- …and cadences of others which were the veils of his own longing and dejection, the rude Firbolg mind of his listener had drawn his mind towards it and flung it back again, drawing it by a quiet inbred courtesy of attention or by a quaint turn of old English speech or by the force of its delight in rude bodily skill—for Davin had sat at the feet of Michael Cusack, the Gael—repelling swiftly and suddenly by a grossness of intelligence or by a bluntness of feeling or by a dull stare of…† (source)
- She had spent, it seemed, two months in Great Britain—seven weeks in touring from Stratford to Strathpeffer, and one as paying guest in an old English family near Ledbury, an impoverished, but still stately family, called Bagshawe.† (source)
- …a clerical English husband in a meek strait-waistcoat, on a wedding trip with his young wife; a majestic English mama and papa, of the patrician order, with a family of three growing-up daughters, who were keeping a journal for the confusion of their fellow-creatures; and a deaf old English mother, tough in travel, with a very decidedly grown-up daughter indeed, which daughter went sketching about the universe in the expectation of ultimately toning herself off into the married state.† (source)
- And so saying, he reached the harp, and entertained his guest with the following characteristic song, to a sort of derry-down chorus, appropriate to an old English ditty.† (source)
- It appeared to me that it would take time to become uncommon, under these circumstances: nevertheless, I resolved to try it, and that very evening Biddy entered on our special agreement, by imparting some information from her little catalogue of Prices, under the head of moist sugar, and lending me, to copy at home, a large old English D which she had imitated from the heading of some newspaper, and which I supposed, until she told me what it was, to be a design for a buckle.† (source)
- You could not live among such people; you are stifled for want of an outlet toward something beautiful, great, or noble; you are irritated with these dull men and women, as a kind of population out of keeping with the earth on which they live,—with this rich plain where the great river flows forever onward, and links the small pulse of the old English town with the beatings of the world's mighty heart.† (source)
- There is a pretty public walk at Poitiers, laid out upon the crest of the high hill around which the little city clusters, planted with thick trees and looking down upon the fertile fields in which the old English princes fought for their right and held it.† (source)
- On the table—in token that the sentiment of old English hospitality had not been left behind—stood a large pewter tankard, at the bottom of which, had Hester or Pearl peeped into it, they might have seen the frothy remnant of a recent draught of ale.† (source)
- They assert, in addition to this, that old English words are often used by the Americans in new acceptations; and lastly, that the inhabitants of the United States frequently intermingle their phraseology in the strangest manner, and sometimes place words together which are always kept apart in the language of the mother-country.† (source)
- The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon.† (source)
- She looked through them at the beauty of the day, the splendour of nature, the sweetness of the old English churchyard, the bowed heads of good friends.† (source)
- I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, — all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.† (source)
- …then he can readily be incorporated into this System, according to his Folio, Octavo, or Duodecimo magnitude:—The Bottle-Nose Whale; the Junk Whale; the Pudding-Headed Whale; the Cape Whale; the Leading Whale; the Cannon Whale; the Scragg Whale; the Coppered Whale; the Elephant Whale; the Iceberg Whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale; etc. From Icelandic, Dutch, and old English authorities, there might be quoted other lists of uncertain whales, blessed with all manner of uncouth names.† (source)
- The building, of greenish stone, was in the old English style, not ugly, but small-windowed and melancholy-looking: the sort of house that must have children, many flowers, open windows, and little vistas of bright things, to make it seem a joyous home.† (source)
- On the other hand, I have already said, that if any thing like a true picture of old English manners could be drawn, I would trust to the good-nature and good sense of my countrymen for insuring its favourable reception.† (source)
- Punctually, as the shrill-toned bell of the black marble study clock began to chime nine, Sir Pitt made his appearance, fresh, neat, smugly shaved, with a waxy clean face, and stiff shirt collar, his scanty hair combed and oiled, trimming his nails as he descended the stairs majestically, in a starched cravat and a grey flannel dressing-gown—a real old English gentleman, in a word—a model of neatness and every propriety.† (source)
- Uppercross was a moderate-sized village, which a few years back had been completely in the old English style, containing only two houses superior in appearance to those of the yeomen and labourers; the mansion of the squire, with its high walls, great gates, and old trees, substantial and unmodernized, and the compact, tight parsonage, enclosed in its own neat garden, with a vine and a pear-tree trained round its casements; but upon the marriage of the young 'squire, it had received…† (source)
- Morally, as well as materially, there was a coarser fibre in those wives and maidens of old English birth and breeding than in their fair descendants, separated from them by a series of six or seven generations; for, throughout that chain of ancestry, every successive mother had transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty, and a slighter physical frame, if not character of less force and solidity than her own.† (source)
- It suddenly came upon her that her situation was one which a few weeks ago she would have deemed deeply romantic: the park of an old English country-house, with the foreground embellished by a "great" (as she supposed) nobleman in the act of making love to a young lady who, on careful inspection, should be found to present remarkable analogies with herself.† (source)
- "In Old English," says Bradley,[52] "the subjunctive played as important a part as in modern German, and was used in much the same way.† (source)
- But /slit/, which is now invariable in English (though it was strong in Old English and had both strong and weak preterites in Middle English), has become regular in American, as in "she /slitted/ her skirt."† (source)
- /Bub/, used in addressing a boy, is very old English, but survives only in American.† (source)
- Archaisms, /i. e./, old English words, obsolete, or nearly so, in England, but retained in use in this country.† (source)
- Of the first class, good specimens are /deck/ (of cards), /gulch/, /gully/ and /billion/, the first three old English words restored to usage in America and the last a sound English word changed in meaning.† (source)
- /Ped/ for /paid/, /gother/ for /gathered/, and /ruz/ for /raised/ are still in use there, and Joyce says flatly that the Irish, "retaining the old English custom [/i. e./, the custom of the period of Cromwell's invasion, /circa/ 1650], have a leaning toward the strong inflection.† (source)
- The captain understood my raillery very well, and merrily replied with the old English proverb, "that he doubted mine eyes were bigger than my belly, for he did not observe my stomach so good, although I had fasted all day;" and, continuing in his mirth, protested "he would have gladly given a hundred pounds, to have seen my closet in the eagle's bill, and afterwards in its fall from so great a height into the sea; which would certainly have been a most astonishing object, worthy to…† (source)
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