Example sentences for: anglo-

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  • In addition to Anglo-Saxon and French stock brought here by the fur trade, late 19th-century immigration campaigns have given Manitoba thriving communities of Ukrainian, German, Jewish, Polish, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, and even Icelandic origin, with more recent arrivals from Asia and the Philippines.

  • After reading in The joy of jabberwocking, by J. A. Davidson [XXII,1,23], that but somehow a few editors gave it a second r , as in borogoves , and Probably many years ago a careless printer put in that extra γ, I have, somewhat tossicatedly, to ask: Am I the only one for whom (many years ago) Professor Bagos Hitman opened wide a copy of Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer and, pointing to a bevy of bilingual yokemates, one of which was (to the best of my recollection) something like bearu grove , burbled (accusingly) Tulgey?

  • The Law impressed a special meaning on many Anglo-Saxon words-- manslaughter, sheriff, theft, hearsay, bench (judge's), strike (motion to), landlord, freehold (in land), and herein --which they retain to this day.

  • The Tarzan and Carter stories can be viewed as experiments--take a member of the Anglo-Saxon ruling class, strip him of all his advantages, and put him in a radically different environment, in order that the innate superiority of his breed may be demonstrated.

  • Coventre, the Couentrev of Domesday Book, may derive from a convent of the Saxon period [ Blue Guide to England, 1980]; It probably owes its origin to the erection in the 7th c of an Anglo-Sexon convent [ The New Shell Guide to England, 1981]; Established under the protection of a Saxon convent in the 7th century [ The New Shell Guide to Britain , 1985].


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