Example sentences for: saxon

How can you use “saxon” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The main street, Queen Street, pays tribute to the Anglo-Saxon myth with its clock tower, white clapboard and red-brick houses, the grand Prince of Wales Hotel, tea shops serving buns and buttered scones, and the lovingly restored Niagara Apothecary (1866) displaying old-fashioned medicine jars in walnut cabinets under ornamental crystal gaslights.

  • This rule is well known to traditional compositors, though, curiously, it does not extend to Angle or Anglo (as in Anglo-Saxon ) though they are all linked etymologically.

  • As an old Anglo-Saxon prophecy goes: “While stands the Colosseum, Rome shall stand; when falls the Colosseum, Rome shall fall; and when Rome falls, with it shall fall the world. ”

  • When he was visiting Saxon Dresden at the height of the Prussian reaction in the 1820s, he surprised his students sitting at the table with him by ordering the most expensive champagne in Europe, Château Sillery.

  • To be sure, I've been known to use that particular Anglo-Saxon expletive myself, and with great verve, too; but to encounter it in the pages of Slate was just too much.


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