Sample sentences for ANGLO-SAXON

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a native or inhabitant of England prior to the Norman conquest or their descendant

To the Anglo-Saxon race has been intrusted the destinies of the world, during its pioneer period of struggle and conflict.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin

The founder of the City of the Saints could not escape from the taste for symmetry which distinguishes the Anglo-Saxons.
Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
Promise me—incidental to the issue—Anglo-Saxon—dirty word—Childe Roland.
Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman
The Anglo-Saxon foot is already on its borders.
John O'Sullivan -- Annexation (Texas)
It, too, had suffered in the border warfare between the Anglo-Saxon and the Celt, between things as they are and as they ought to be.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
His real handle was Gurevitch, but that didn't have the dash that went with the proud Anglo-Saxon names of his heroes.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
'He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger—and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.
Lewis Carroll -- Through the Looking-Glass
She wanted us to look like something Anglo-Saxon, carved on a tomb; or Christmas card angels, regimented in our robes of purity.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
An Anglo-Saxon, I believe.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
You are very Anglo-Saxon, Mademoiselle.
Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express
Underneath that Anglo-Saxon exterior, education and all, beats the heart of a Russian.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
Well, most of the time we were on the Anglo-Saxons.
J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye
In these trials we have accepted the Russian idea of the purpose of trials—government policy and not justice—with little relation to Anglo-Saxon heritage.
John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage
I hope all that Anglo-Saxon phlegm doesn't turn you into morons," Clara said as she bade her sons goodbye.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
At the same time exhibiting those articles, and penetrating him with a sense of the appalling difficulties of the Anglo-Saxon tongue.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
It's the historical Anglo-Saxon way of making life miserable....
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
In French political circles, the RPF invasion was called "an Anglo-Saxon invasion.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
I mean those Anglo-Saxon four-letter words that everyone should be able to say.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
He had a ruddy face like an Anglo-Saxon and brown hair, and he was taller than most of Batavia's Sicilians grew.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
The narrowness and superficiality of the Anglo-Saxon tourist is nothing less than a menace.
E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View

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