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"Saxon" in a Sentence (21 examples)
Many in Hamburg speak Missingsch, a mix of Low Saxon and German.
He's a Saxon.
Drents is a group of variants of the Low Saxon regional language.
It's a Saxon village.
Planet Earth, a film with John Saxon, is about a post-apocalyptic future.
Frisian, Low Saxon, Limburgish, Romani, and Yiddish have protected status under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
Glorious London! Leviathan of human greed; palpitating hot-bed of iniquity and joy; Greek, Roman, Spanish, Saxon, Kelt, Scot, Pict, Norman and Dane have swept over thee like winter storms; and the mighty Cæsar, Julius of old, with a myriad of bucklered warriors and one hundred galleons of sailors, triple-oared mariners, defying wave and fate, have ploughed the placid face of Father Thames, startling the loud cry of hawk and bittern as his royal prows grated on thy strand, or skimmed over the marshes of thy infancy.
The islands of Great Britain and Ireland were disputed by a crowd of princes of Saxon or Scottish origin: and, after the loss of Spain, the Christian and Gothic kingdom of Alphonso the Chaste was confined to the narrow range of the Asturian mountains.
In his opinion, Robin Hood was neither a Saxon malcontent nor the hero of a poet's romance; nor yet was he 'a goblin or a myth.'
To an American student of life and language in Germany she was pictured as absolutely necessary, for, although originally from the Thuringian forest, she spoke the Saxon dialect shockingly well.
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Kenett states that the military works still known by the name of Tadmarten Camp and Hook-Norton Barrow were cast up at this time ; the former, large and round, is judged to be a fortification of the Danes, and the latter, being smaller and rather a quinquangle than a square, of the Saxons.
[...] in West Germany Saxony and Saxons became synonymous with Ulbricht's Communist regime, [...]
The film taught that socialist competition, through encouraging the collaboration of both men and women and Saxons and Berliners, could overcome the natural antagonism between male industrial mass production and female fashion.
Dealing with people there was different from the way I dealt with Saxons, Berliners and others back in Leipzig.
Not everyone from the former GDR states are Saxons – and they do not all speak Saxon, […]
Then came the call to arms, love, the heather was aflame / Down from the silent mountains, the Saxon strangers came.
Not everyone from the former GDR states are Saxons – and they do not all speak Saxon, […]
But does this mean that Germans nowadays speak Saxon? Far from it, in fact; Saxon is the most widely despised dialect in Germany, by a wide margin.
But his bitch queen was Saxon to the bone and her legacy showed in the sons that Vortigern bred off her. Katigern Minor might be young, but he has become what his grandfather never was – more Saxon than Celt.
Eadyth managed to make one of her beekeeping veils into a bridal veil hanging from a circlet of Drifa’s flowers. All this attire was more Saxon than Norse. So she wore her hair in one long braid, Viking style, and at her shoulder was a brooch in a writhing, intertwined animal design. / Her sisters looked just as lovely in their bright gowns, Tyra’s Saxon style, but the others pure Viking.
He was a large, very Saxon type of man; that is to say, an English one, having shed the vices and cruelties and developed the patience and cool-headedness.
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