67 Metaphors for english

When we say, the English, the French, the Dutch, the Scotch, the Welsh, the Irish,meaning, the English people, the French people, &c., many grammarians conceive that English, French, &c., are indeclinable nouns.

But then is the English a translation of the Latin? Hither the father of the fire by night, Thro'

18.We see then, that, according to Dr. Lowth and others, the only good English in which one can address an individual on any ordinary occasion, is you with a plural verb; and that, according to Lindley Murray and others, the only good English for the same purpose, is thou with a verb inflected with st or est.

But, in this case, the settlers adhered to their original principle of only obtaining, by purchase from the natives, those tracts of land on which they desired to settle; and a great part of that which was now bestowed on Uncas, was afterwards bought back from him and his inferior Sachems, or obtained by friendly contract, until the English became possessors of the whole district.

" "I hae what ye English ca' an aiccent, I know; but, in my judgment, captain Willoughby, the words may be comprehended without a dictionary.

The English were heretics; the Dutch were both heretics and rebels; the French and the Danes were too weak at sea to handle the great slave trading contract with security; and Spain had no means of her own for large scale commerce.

The French language lost its official prestige, and English became the speech not only of the common people but of courts and Parliament as well.

the English are a great nation!"

The English are our masters, and by consequence masters of the sea.

Thus to imply, as is sometimes done, that modern English is simply a blend of Anglo-Saxon and Latin elements is misleading.

Indeed the Germans are so unable to see any charm in that profound and humane people that they believe that the English liking for them must be an insincere pretence, put forward for wicked or selfish reasons.

The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief."

Correct English is largely a matter of correct choice between two or more forms of expression, and in this book an attempt has been made, as a glance at the pages will show, to throw the exercises, whenever possible, into a form consistent with this truth.

A trick: Those English are the men borne to undooe us.

I had not had teaspoons enough when the English were herenot that they cared.

The English had been good comrades; he remembered agreeably his voyages as an official aboard the British boats.

The English will be the fashion in Quebec when you are grown.

" Samuel's inelegant English had always been a source of distress to Blossy; yet still she stared long at the picture.

But the English of the name is flower, and you can call me Mrs. Flower.

When we come nearer the surface of our subject and speak of language, we remark that pure English, so far as such is possible, is the most convenient and expressive.

" "TOM BROWN" is not looked upon as a sheepish person, and yet, the English of his name is ewes ('ughes).

The plain English for Casablanca is White-House.

"The English are cowards," said he.

The most English of all our great men of letters, next to Shakespeare, is certainly Dr. Johnson, but he was no great poet.

"The English are thieves"; and another "Belgium?...

67 Metaphors for  english