He was a very gallant officer and had served with the English in the Crimeahad the order of the Bath, and exactly that stand-off, pompous manner which suits English people.

The plain English for Casablanca is White-House.

" No translation into English of La Fiammetta has been made since Shakespeare's timewhen a small edition was published, which is now so rare as to be practically unattainableuntil the appearance of the present Scholarly and poetic rendering, which places within the reach of all one of the world's greatest masterpieces of literature.

He had a long talk after dinner with the Crown Princess (Princess Royal of England) who spoke English with him.

Beaujeu at once called the warriors to a council, and urged that they accompany him against the English on the morrow.

My name is Gordon Gregg, English by birth, cosmopolitan by instinct.

We saw a great many English at the Quai d'Orsay.

And I left the fellow, very satisfied that I had turned his officiousness and hatred of the English to very good account.

The American has absorbed considerable quantities of closely kindred European blood, but he is rapidly assimilating it all, and in his political habits and aptitudes he remains as thoroughly English as his forefathers in the days of De Montfort, or Hampden, or Washington.

Generally I lay across my bunk smoking my pipe while Handy Solomon held forth, his speech punctuated by surly speculations from the Nigger, with hesitating deep-sea wisdom from the hairy Thrackles, or with voluminous bursts of fractured English from Perdosa.

One-half of her average audience insists that she speaks better English than nine-tenths of our native actresses: the other half asserts that she is at times nearly unintelligible.

Dee'll drib d' English into d' sea, and wese t' hab ouh freedom,ouh freedom an' plenty lan' t' lib on.

He called over an army of English under his ancient captains, who soon expelled Robert and his adherents from their retreats, and restored the authority of the sovereign in all his dominions.

He was English through and through, Not Greek, nor French, nor Jew, Though well their tongues he knew, The living and the dead: Learned Erasmus said, Hie 'unum Britannicarum Lumen et decus literarum.

The Emperor Paul, in a letter written on a small scrap of paper, proposed to transfer his whole army to Napoleon, to be employed in turning the English out of India, provided he would prevent them passing the Gut and enclosing the Baltic.

This unusual armament was not beheld by the English without some jealousy, and care was taken to fit out such a fleet as might secure the trade from interruption, and the coasts from insults; of this Blake was constituted admiral for nine months.

The Wampanoges found the benefit of their alliance with the mighty English during the autumn of that year, when the dread which their name and power had inspired proved a safeguard to the friendly Indian tribe, and preserved them from a combined attack of several other tribes who had, by some mysterious means, been instigated to unite for their destruction.

The fact is, however, that she speaks English like a foreigner.

Therefore he ordered his men to feign flight, and thus to draw the English after them in pursuit.

There is in the Froissart collection at the British Museum an illumination (dating from the fifteenth century) showing the expedition of the French and English against the Barbary corsairs.

It is very like the café at Troyon's, at this hour especially, when there are so few English about.

The pedlar called attention to them by pointing admiringly at each, and recommended them by muttering broken English over them.

"To the great disappointment of our troops there were only a hundred and twenty English among the prisoners who had been cut off from the main army; young fellows about eighteen to twenty years of age.

Seneca was the favorite Latin author, and all his tragedies were translated into English between 1559 and 1581.

They believed firmly that they were going to sweep the English off the face of the earth and enter Cairo in triumph, and preparations for the march on Suez went on with feverish enthusiasm.