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In the ninth century the Vikings began raiding the Anglo-Saxons.Anglo-Saxons = a native or inhabitant of England prior to the Norman conquest; or their descendant
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Just as Allied soldiers, like the cultures they came from, often held virulently racist views of the Japanese, Japanese soldiers and civilians, intensely propagandized by their government, usually carried their own caustic prejudices about their enemies, seeing them as brutish, subhuman beasts or fearsome "Anglo-Saxon devils."† (source)
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She wanted us to look like something Anglo-Saxon, carved on a tomb; or Christmas card angels, regimented in our robes of purity.† (source)
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They'd say "for White Anglo-Saxon Protestants only.† (source)
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It never occurred to him that this was an unlucky number, an Anglo-Saxon superstition.† (source)
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You can describe the business clinically as if it were a do-it-yourself manual—insert tab A into slot B—but there are not that many tabs or slots, whether you use the Anglo-Saxon names or their Latinate alternatives.† (source)
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Underneath that Anglo-Saxon exterior, education and all, beats the heart of a Russian.† (source)Anglo-Saxon = a native or inhabitant of England prior to the Norman conquest; or their descendant
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Well, most of the time we were on the Anglo-Saxons.† (source)
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I hope all that Anglo-Saxon phlegm doesn't turn you into morons," Clara said as she bade her sons goodbye.† (source)
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And now we're coming back to Narnia just as if we were Crusaders or Anglo-Saxons or Ancient Britons or someone coming back to modern England?† (source)
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He looked over his notes again and again—the first English dictionary, the growth of the English language, William Shakespeare, words from French and German, new words, old words, new inventions, Anglo-Saxon words, Latin and Greek roots, American English—it all became a big jumble in his mind.† (source)
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It is true that the Anglo-Saxons settled in the New World in a state of social equality; the low-born and the noble were not to be found amongst them; and professional prejudices were always as entirely unknown as the prejudices of birth.† (source)
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It was uncharacteristic of Adrian Carter to use profanity, especially of the Anglo-Saxon copulatory variety.† (source)
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The founder of the City of the Saints could not escape from the taste for symmetry which distinguishes the Anglo-Saxons.† (source)
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Colonel Cathcart went away from General Dreedle with a gulp and kicked the chaplain out of the officers' club, and it was exactly the way it almost was two months later after the chaplain had tried to persuade Colonel Cathcart to rescind his order increasing the number of missions to sixty and had failed abysmally in that endeavor too, and the chaplain was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was restrained by the memory of his wife, whom he loved and missed so pathetically with such sensual and exalted ardor, and by the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon,† (source)
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Grendel, the monster in the medieval epic Beowulf (eighth century A.D.), is an actual monster, but he can also symbolize (a) the hostility of the universe to human existence (a hostility that medieval Anglo-Saxons would have felt acutely) and (b) a darkness in human nature that only some higher aspect of ourselves (as symbolized by the title hero) can conquer.† (source)
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