43 adverbs to describe how to english

Except in regard to purely English affairs most Englishmen possess an almost inconceivable ignorance of history and geography.

The name of the saint sounds essentially English, and it has been woven into the country's history.

John Bull, on the other hand, has grown bulbous, long-bodied, short-legged, heavy-witted, material, and, in a word, too intensely English.

It was a characteristically English measure, logically inconsistent and absurd, a mixture of tolerance and intolerance, but suitable to the circumstances and the state of public opinion at the time.

As Eve glanced her eye around her, she perceived Tuscan hats, bonnets of gay colours and flowers, and dresses of French chintzes, where fifty years ago would have been seen even men's woollen hats, and homely English calicoes.

In 1386 Chaucer was elected member of Parliament from Kent, and the distinctly English period of his life and work begins.

It was a typically English display.

As, keeping his head to one side to avoid the reins, he gave the direction across the roof of the cab to the attentive cocked ear of the cabman, he felt suddenly that he had regained his nationality, that he was utterly English, in an atmosphere utterly English.

" Willis affected a drawl, had his clothes made in London, and considered himself "deucedly English," although he sometimes forgot himself for a short time and dropped his mannerisms.

The windows, too, are very noble and fine, and rich in their tracery, which might seem to be scarcely English.

Ha, ha, hawhy this is the strangest thingto see an old Fellow, a Magistrate of the City, the first Night he's married, forsake his Bride and Bed, and come arm'd Cap-a-pee, like Gargantua, to disturb another old Fellow, and banter him with a Tale of a Tub; and all to be-cuckold him herein plain English, what's your Business? Sir Feeb.

Because there is something specifically English which we feel to be supremely worth striving for, worth dying for, rather than living to renounce it.

But if the reformed Parliament failed to restore order in Ireland, and to render that justice which should have followed the liberal principles it invoked, yet in matters strictly English great progress was made in the removal of crying evils.

Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man,a sort of breeding in and in, which produces at most a merely English nobility, a civilization destined to have a speedy limit.

In 1930 Agnus Dei, a Konknni-English monthly was started and went on being published for 13 years.

The victories of Crécy, Poictiers, and Agincourtwhich shed such lustre on the English nationwere followed by reverses, miseries, and defeats, which more than balanced the glories of Edward the Black Prince and Henry V. Provinces were gained and lost, yet no decisive results followed either victory or defeat.

The Englishman who has a fancy for France will try to be French; the Englishman who admires France will remain obstinately English.

Some seke so far outlandishe English, that thei forget altogether their mothers language.

Splendour diminished, and luxury remained the monopoly of the rich; but comfortthat peculiarly English treasurewas more generally diffused.

The Renwoods were downright Yankees, Penelope; I will swear that these voices are amazingly English.

He is, therefore, far more radically English than is Tennyson; and it may be for this reason that he is the more studied, and that, while youth delights in Tennyson, manhood is better satisfied with Browning.

I have called her a Lorrainer, not simply because the word is prettier, but because Champagne too odiously reminds us English of what are for us imaginary wines, which, undoubtedly, La Pucelle tasted as rarely as we English; we English, because the Champagne of London is chiefly grown in Devonshire; La Pucelle, because the Champagne of Champagne never, by any chance, flowed into the fountain of Domrémy, from which only she drank.

She was a clean-looking German woman, rather smartly dressed; she had a fringe of flaxen curls and a voluble flow of words, for the most part recognisably English.

My father had grown up from his early youth most resolutely English, and had married the daughter of a rich Manchester cotton manufacturer.

We connect Quatre Bras with things romantically English to the verge of sentimentalism, with Byron and "The Black Brunswicker."

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