Sample Sentences forElizabethan (auto-selected)
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For years, every time Mom brought out Shakespeare's plays, Dad would carry on about how they'd been written not by William Shakespeare of Avon but by a bunch of people, including someone named the Earl of Oxford, because no single person in Elizabethan England could have had Shakespeare's thirty-thousand-word vocabulary.† (source)
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Emerging at last from the austerity which had plagued them since the second world war, but at the same time facing the loss of their great empire and the inevitable decline of their power in the world, the British had half-convinced themselves that the accession of the young Queen was a token of a fresh start-a new Elizabethan age, as the newspapers like to call it.† (source)
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She saw her father's face, with its bold brow, and reverend white beard that flowed over the old-fashioned Elizabethan ruff; her mother's, too, with the look of heedful and anxious love which it always wore in her remembrance, and which, even since her death, had so often laid the impediment of a gentle remonstrance in her daughter's pathway.† (source)
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The footman—an imp in Elizabethan dress—was unmistakably haughty and superior.† (source)
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He is speaking the ancient Elizabethan Kwakwala which the young no longer know.† (source)
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In the Elizabethan Age, the age of the extraordinary, he was exceptional.† (source)
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It is a combination of an African dialect and English; some even claim that remnants of Elizabethan English survive among the Gullah people.† (source)
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Two ELIZABETHANS passing the time in a place without any visible character.† (source)
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He's still in costume—a billowing white affair with multicolored polka dots, a triangular hat, and Elizabethan ruff.† (source)
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Do look at this bridegroom coming out of church: did you ever see such a 'sugared invention'—as the Elizabethans used to say?† (source)
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My friends tell me I have the Elizabethan personality.† (source)
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His mind when wearied of its search for the essence of beauty amid the spectral words of Aristotle or Aquinas turned often for its pleasure to the dainty songs of the Elizabethans.† (source)
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A dim line of ancestors, in every variety of dress, from the Elizabethan knight to the buck of the Regency, stared down upon us and daunted us by their silent company.† (source)
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For example, Charles Harrington Elster, cohost of the radio program A Way with Words on KPBS, San Diego, believes our language "is thriving now probably more than at any time since the Elizabethans."† (source)
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Their retelling was set in the Old West and completely free of Elizabethan English.† (source)
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Then he saw himself sitting at the old piano, striking chords softly from its speckled keys and singing, amid the talk which had risen again in the room, to her who leaned beside the mantelpiece a dainty song of the Elizabethans, a sad and sweet loth to depart, the victory chant of Agincourt, the happy air of Greensleeves.† (source)
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