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Letter "O" » Old English
«I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them.»
Author: Christian Bale
| About:
Dentists
| Keywords:
beforehand, dentistry, moldings, not famous, Old English
«English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.»
Author: Dr. Willard Gaylin
| Keywords:
borrow, deliciously, distort, fuse, fused, intrudes, Old English, undisciplined
«Its oak paneling is rectory English; the marble in its bathrooms sometimes outdoes the tombstones of the Medici; and the salutes of the older bellhops seem imported from Windsor Castle.»
«The pleasures of afternoon tea run like a trickle of honey through English literature from Rupert Brooke's wistful lines on the Old Vicarage at Grantchester to Miss Marple, calmly dissecting a case over tea cakes at a seaside hotel.»
«It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.»
«The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread / in Ireland, sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!»
Author: Charles Dickens
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dawns, Iron Hand, Old English, rallies, rally, rallying, The Coming, Tories, Tory
«The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Church of England, confession, enthusiastic, imagined, monarchies, monarchy, Old English, rent, The Confession, The monarchy, Tories, Tory, Wringing, wrings, wring from, wrung
«I will not show off [written in Old English style font]»
«Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
abusing, Old English, the king
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