Sample Sentences forAnglo-Saxon (auto-selected)
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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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Promise me—incidental to the issue—Anglo-Saxon—dirty word—Childe Roland.† (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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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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It was uncharacteristic of Adrian Carter to use profanity, especially of the Anglo-Saxon copulatory variety.† (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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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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Well, most of the time we were on the Anglo-Saxons.† (source)
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It is very appropriate then that from this cradle of the Confederacy, this very heart of the great Anglo-Saxon Southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom ...Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us ...In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny.† (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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You are very Anglo-Saxon, Mademoiselle.† (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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Underneath that Anglo-Saxon exterior, education and all, beats the heart of a Russian.† (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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I mean those Anglo-Saxon four-letter words that everyone should be able to say.† (source)
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She wished she had paid more attention to them, but only one glance down a column of print was enough to tell her a familiar story: same people who were the Invisible Empire, who hated Catholics; ignorant, fear-ridden, red-faced, boorish, law-abiding, one hundred per cent red-blooded Anglo-Saxons, her fellow Americans—trash.† (source)
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