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Beowulf is the best-known work of Old English literature.Old English = English as it was spoken and written prior to about 1100
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Sophie and Josh watched as the letters shifted on the page like tiny beetles, shaping and reshaping themselves, becoming briefly almost legible in recognizable languages like Latin or Old English, but then immediately dissolving and re-forming into ancient-looking symbols not unlike Egyptian hieroglyphs or Celtic Ogham. (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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In the back lot of the local elementary school, about a year after Tines death, five of us gathered in the grass and created a club — "Thee Impersonations," the "Thee" being an old English usage that other clubs would adopt because it made everything sound classier, nobler, badder. (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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"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)
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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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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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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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She switched nervously to Old English. (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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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)
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—Why may the two clauses not be parallel, and the whole passage an Old English cry of '_How wonderful is death!' (source)Old English = English as it was spoken and written prior to about 1100
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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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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)old English = English as it was spoken and written prior to about 1100
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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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Her computer was clogged with old English papers from two years ago, and even though they'd gotten A's back then they were probably embarrassingly bad and should be deleted. (source)
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It isn't just setting, that hoary old English class topic. (source)
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Since riding Gonzo she'd come to prefer it to her old English one. (source)old English = from long ago in England
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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)Old English = a decorative font style inspired by the lettering used in medieval manuscripts
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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)
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The word: she tried to prevent it sounding in her thoughts, and yet it danced through them obscenely, a typographical demon, juggling vague, insinuating anagrams—an uncle and a nut, the Latin for next, an Old English king attempting to turn back the tide. (source)Old English = old and of England
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He ended up where he always hung out—on the back steps of the closed and dreary Clinton Elementary School, sitting with his friends, sharing a forty-ounce bottle of Old English Malt Liquor. (source)Old English = part of a brand name
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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)
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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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I mean to say, Stevens, this is a genuine grand old English house, isn't it? (source)
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And I'll send a great big check to my old English teacher, Mrs. James, so she can restock the school library. (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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