“A “Kemp” was a wrestler—from cempa, the old English word for “champion” or “warrior.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you. — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen… — Drew Busby Copy Share Image
Puff, puff puff to the brain shot. Love P.O.D.ed and tweeded, gotta get another case for my trunk. Old English, really don't… — Krayzie Bone Copy Share Image
I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
“Holism, wholeness, healing, and holiness are all derived from the same root in Old English: haelen, to “make whole.” — Elaine R. Ferguson Copy Share Image
“In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
“it was decorated with Japanese fans and Chinese lanterns, which gave it a very Old English effect.” — Saki Copy Share Image
I'd love to have been in things like 'The Jewel in the Crown,' but of course they're terribly old English. I can… — Julia McKenzie Copy Share Image
“Do I need an attorney or something? Because really, I feel like a criminal. I mean I could have had my cellmate’s… — Lynda LeeAnne Copy Share Image
I had always loved the look of the old English gentleman who dressed in class and style, who knew what he was… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
“We shall fight on the beaches,” said Churchill in 1940, “we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
The word coach comes from the old English word coach, which was a vehicle, a carriage that took royalty or very important… — Timothy Gallwey Copy Share Image
Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember.… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“It was a bitch living with your old English teacher, especially when your old English teacher wasn’t old at all, and he… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“The association of the wild and the wood also run deep in etymology. The two words are thought to have grown out… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
The word heaven means harmony. The word hell is from the old English hell, meaning to build a wall around, to separate;… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
“blackletter has come to represent a certain reverence and antiquity. There are various forms, such as the French/Flemish Bâtarde, or the German… — Stephen Coles Copy Share Image
“Do you realise that about two hundred of Twing's heftiest are waiting for you outside to chuck you into the pond?" "No!"… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“The practice of buying off the Vikings will always be associated with Æthelred in particular… [but] it was not something which proceeded… — Simon Keynes Copy Share Image
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“As Rockwell Kent said in his Alaskan journal, 'The wonder of wilderness was its tranquility.' I wish I had said that first.… — Jack Turner Copy Share Image
“They then named one day after the Moon and another after the Sun, giving them a seven-day week. Seven was regarded as… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
“And I hope that all my readers are acquainted with an old English Cathedral town or I fear the significance of Mr… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“To make a tarte of strawberyes," wrote Margaret Parker in 1551, "take and strayne theym with the yolkes of four eggs, and… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“Twelve years ago I left Boston and New York, and moved east and west at the same time. East, to a little… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Yeast. The word comes to us through Old English, from the Indo-European root 'yes'- meaning boil, foam, bubble. It does all those… — Christa Parrish Copy Share Image
“Modern Our Father, who is in heaven, blessed be your name. Give us our daily bread today. All three of these languages… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
It's kind of a cross between, I think. It's not, you know, over the top Old English, like Lord of the Rings… — Jaimie Alexander Copy Share Image
The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Many of Jane Austen's admirers, it is true, read her novels as a means of escape into a cozy sort of Old… — Susannah Carson Copy Share Image
I'll sing you a new ballad, andI'll warrant it first-rate, Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
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