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Example sentences for: elizabethan

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In the sixteenth century, an Elizabethan courtier, Sir John Harrington, invented a water-closet with a flushing system and wrote a book on the subject entitled A Metamorphosis of Ajax, published in 1596.
Two recent releases deal with the Elizabethan age-- Elizabeth , the bloody tale of the Virgin Queen's rise, and Shakespeare in Love , a romp through Elizabethan theater.
The end was hastened by a man who made other Muslim invaders seem like pussy cats: the Mongol Timur the Lame, the “barbarous and bloody Tamburlaine,” later written about by Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.
Plaudits for the reconstruction of the fabled Elizabethan theater, which was demolished in 1644.
When Cole Porter in the song Just One of those Things wants to suggest the painful directness with which Dorothy Parker might have sent a discarded lover on his way, he switches incongruously from plain language to an Elizabethan flourish: