Sample Sentences for
Old English
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    Let me whisper the terrible word, from the Old English, from the Old German, from the Old Norse.  (source)
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    After we've learned 'Fflat Huw Puw' we'll learn 'The Dream of the Rood' in Old English.  (source)
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    You had to know Old English and the History of the English Language and a representative selection of all that had been written from Beowulf to the present day.  (source)
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    Sometimes they drilled to "Dorothy, an Old English Dance," and sometimes to Fur Elise-everybody out of kilter.  (source)
    Old English = part of a name
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    "Old English to Teutonic, to Italian, and...mmm, Latin...," he murmured, more to himself than anyone else.  (source)
    Old English = English as it was spoken and written prior to about 1100
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    Frederic G. Cassidy, editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, notes that in Old English the word was acsian but over time the "ks" sound was reversed.  (source)
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    What I mean is that since the preponderance of cultural influences has come down to us from European early settlers, and since those early settlers inflicted their values on the "benighted" cultures they encountered ("benighted," from the Old English, meaning "anyone darker than myself"), those inflicted values have gained ascendancy.  (source)
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    She switched nervously to Old English.  (source)
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    All his relaxations—baseball, golf, movies, bridge, motoring, long talks with Paul at the Athletic Club, or at the Good Red Beef and Old English Chop House—were necessary to Babbitt, for he was entering a year of such activity as he had never known.  (source)
    Old English = part of a name
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    Though no more Old English than the works of Kipling, it had selected its reminiscences so adroitly that her criticism was lulled, and the guests whom it was nourishing for imperial purposes bore the outer semblance of Parson Adams or Tom Jones.  (source)
    Old English = English as it was spoken long ago
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    "Franklin Runyon Sousley" reminds you that the hillfolk of Kentucky still carried in their culture the calcified rhythms and accents of Old English, carried across the Atlantic and into the mountain wilderness.  (source)
    Old English = English as it was spoken and written prior to about 1100
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    They assert, in addition to this, that old English words are often used by the Americans in new acceptations; and lastly, that the inhabitants of the United States frequently intermingle their phraseology in the strangest manner, and sometimes place words together which are always kept apart in the language of the mother-country.  (source)
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    Waste is an interesting word that you can trace through Old English and Old Norse back to the Latin, finding such derivatives as empty, void, vanish and devastate.  (source)
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    The term hijack comes from an old English word that means 'to capture,' or even better, 'seize.  (source)
    old English = from long ago in England
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    Since riding Gonzo she'd come to prefer it to her old English one.  (source)
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    I mean to say, Stevens, this is a genuine grand old English house, isn't it?  (source)
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    Then suddenly he saw the old English Club and realized that they must be on Tverskaya—the ancient road that radiated from the Kremlin in the direction of St. Petersburg, and that he had strolled a thousand times before.  (source)
    old English = from long ago in England
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    We played Kool and the Gang songs for hours, smoking weed, drinking Old English 800 malt liquor, and rehearsing in the drummer's basement for days at a time until the guy's mother threw us out, at which time we'd find another place to jam.  (source)
    Old English = part of a brand name
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    The Whitshanks' silverware was real sterling, embossed with an Old English W. She wondered when they had acquired it.  (source)
    Old English = a decorative font style inspired by the lettering used in medieval manuscripts
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    The document had been completed and signed in less than three hours — fast work for a shyster — and now resided in Hallorann's breast pocket, folded into a stiff blue envelope with the word WILL on the outside in Old English letters.  (source)
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    Fiercely independent and loud, he yanked my brother and me into his world of James Brown, Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke, of barroom dances, Old English 800 Malt Liquor Beer and weight lifting.  (source)
    Old English = part of a brand name
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    I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, — all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.  (source)
    old English = from long ago in England
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    On the table—in token that the sentiment of old English hospitality had not been left behind—stood a large pewter tankard, at the bottom of which, had Hester or Pearl peeped into it, they might have seen the frothy remnant of a recent draught of ale.  (source)
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    BOAR'S HEAD INN, read the Old English letters around the china rim, AN AMERICAN LANDMARK.  (source)
    Old English = a decorative font style inspired by the lettering used in medieval manuscripts
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    "What you got in that thing, a dead body?" cried Gabriella to Aldo in good old English.  (source)
    old English = from long ago in England
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    Bold black old English script, stretching from the front to the rear fender, announces THE WAGES OF SIN IS A BUCK FIFTY.  (source)
    old English = a decorative font style inspired by the lettering used in medieval manuscripts
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