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relating to Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled as queen (1558-1603)- William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan
- Elizabethan music
- In the Elizabethan Age, the age of the extraordinary, he was exceptional.Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
- Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or even the Elizabethan men.Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher were two dramatists of the Elizabethan age.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- Cranly's speech, unlike that of Davin, had neither rare phrases of Elizabethan English nor quaintly turned versions of Irish idioms.James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Then on a ledge above us I saw one who looked on, but as I pointed him out we saw the Elizabethan top of him scoot away.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- He's still in costume—a billowing white affair with multicolored polka dots, a triangular hat, and Elizabethan ruff.Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
- He knew nothing of the Elizabethan drama beyond Shakespeare's plays.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- At the other side of the room, further forward, is an Elizabethan chair roughly carved in the taste of Inigo Jones.George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion
- Max turned to see a thin imp dressed like an Elizabethan courtier addressing the crowds from behind the embassy's gated fence.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- The moment, however, that one tries this method with the Elizabethan woman, one branch of illumination fails; one is held up by the scarcity of facts.Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
- My friends tell me I have the Elizabethan personality.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- Smith Island is one of the many places it's claimed that Elizabethan or Shakespearean English survives.Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
- He is speaking the ancient Elizabethan Kwakwala which the young no longer know.Margaret Craven -- I Heard the Owl Call My Name
- It is a combination of an African dialect and English; some even claim that remnants of Elizabethan English survive among the Gullah people.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- That's what this figure really comes down to, whether in Elizabethan, Victorian, or more modern incarnations: exploitation in its many forms.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- I could feel the magic taking hold, despite the Arrow of Dodona whispering to me like an annoying Elizabethan stagehand, SAYEST THOU: "PLAGUEY, PLAGUEY, PLAG UEY!Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
- I trust he will work that vein further, and recognize that Elizabethan Renascence fustian is no more bearable after medieval poesy than Scribe after Ibsen.George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
- There was something rather Elizabethan about him—his casual versatility, his good looks, that effervescent combination of mental with physical activities.James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
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