How To Use Englishman In A Sentence
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Europeans have also learnt to miscall the Egyptians “Arabs”: the difference is as great as between an Englishman and a Spaniard.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The Englishman had a shut-in feeling, as though the buildings were closing in on him.
COVER STORY
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The 37-year-old Englishman is only the fourth player to get there without having won a major.
Lee Westwood Ranked No. 1, Jumps Tiger Woods
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Years ago we were more provincial even than now as, for instance, a certain Englishman, who wrote, while living in a small French town in 1813 these barbarians make fun of me everywhere just because I am properly dressed and speak the language of a human being.
The Yankee Myth
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A wealthy, mysterious Englishman named Henry Philips arrived in the port and rapidly gained Tyndale's trust, and hence access to the Pointz household.
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Ignoring the gun, Karlov turned round and stared straight at the Englishman.
COVER STORY
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Englishman Simon Chalk will be official record-holder for the fastest rowed crossing of the Indian Ocean after all.
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Carne (who had taken most kindly to the fortune which made him an untrue Englishman) clapped his breast with both hands; not proudly, as a Frenchman does, nor yet with that abashment and contempt of demonstration which make a true Briton very clumsy in such doings; while Daniel Tugwell, being very solid, and by no means “emotional” — as people call it nowadays — was looking at him, to the utmost of his power
Springhaven
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The domestic goddess was no match this year for the cuddly Englishman.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mulhall, an Englishman, were still in pajamas, their naked feet thrust into
THE PEARLS OF PARLAY
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A jocular Englishman, Terry has been in New Zealand for 12 years, organising tours of the best dive spots for visiting Poms.
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The Englishman was struck with the solemnity of the obtestation, and answered with more cordiality than he had yet exhibited,
The Talisman
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According to Rio Ferdinand, in an interview in last night's programme, the 23-year-old Ulsterman and the 21-year-old Englishman are "great young players with big futures at this club".
Manchester United understudies pull the wool over Pep Guardiola's eyes | Richard Williams
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From that moment forward it is not the Englishman, it is the black banian, that is the master.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
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Englishman Paul Chandler and his wife Rachel in October last year to sail to the United Republic of Tanzania on the way from the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean by Somali pirates kidnapped.
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At his best, and that is often, this transplated Englishman goes beyond impressionism to provide an undogmatic assessment of what Americans (indeed, people all over the planet) have done to the earth.
Landscape's Grittier Aspects
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The failure to laugh signifies in the peasant or the Frenchman a politeness that exceeds his intelligence, in the landowner or the Englishman an excessive rigidity, and in the policeman or the German a surfeit of power.
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An Englishman who asks for the same control in England is called a bigot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Set roasted beef and pudding on the opposite side o 'the pit o' Tophet, and an Englishman will mak a spang at it -- But I wash my hands o't -- Follow me sir "(to Andrew)," and I'se show ye where to pit the beasts.
Rob Roy — Volume 02
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The ground for this popular interpretation is a constitutional device which to an Englishman, if it be not offensive to say so, can only recall the well-known definition of a metaphysician as "a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat, _which is not there_.
William of Germany
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It is the habit of men of all nations to want to have things both ways; the Englishman is unfortunately so unable to express himself, _even to himself_, that he has never realized this truth, much less confessed it -- hence his appearance of hypocrisy.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
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No jacket was found in the initial searches but in 1986, while Mrs Chamberlain was serving a life sentence, an Englishman, David Brett, fell to his death from Uluru, landing beside the jacket which was half-buried close to dingo lairs.
Dingo baby case that divided a nation could be closed at last
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It is the vision of an Englishman, a sportsman and a visitor yet not that of a superficial tourist, and, irritating as it might be to the Scottish nationalist in the age of devolution, it still exerts a powerful appeal.
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The service, which will die quietly, though far from unmourned, on January 20, is now run from Bush House in the Strand by four Albanian exiles and one Englishman.
From the archive, 11 January 1967: Albania on the blink
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In the same year, the Englishman William Rivers discarded evolutionism in favour of diffusionist theories to explain the historical spread of customs and belief systems.
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Had we lived, I should have a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman," Scott wrote in his diary, words that have become a touchstone for generations of Brits.
Polar Exploration for Armchair Travelers
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He sat in the squared posture of a hearty Englishman, amusing himself with everything they passed on the road self-congratulant on the knowledge and experience he had been storing, joking as often as he spoke.
The Emancipated
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We sometimes say, south of the line, and I have heard it also in London, "Yes, Yes, the Englishman is a brute, but he is a just brute.
The Enduring Greatness of Newer Nations
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He arrived back in England with very valuable treasure and the distinction of being the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.
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And the shade of meaning, the limited qualification, that a Frenchman or Englishman can attain with a mere twist of the sentence, the German must either abandon or laboriously overstate with some colossal wormcast of parenthesis ....
Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought
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He looked tranquilly from the Englishman to the king.
The Puppet Crown
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She opens the door again to the see the blankly smiling Englishman standing under his umbrella.
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When Pope John XXIII condemned the Bohemian Reformer John Hus to the flames as a heretic, at the Council of Constance in 1415, he also anathematised the Englishman John Wyclif.
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Yet the old instinct which has made the name of Englishman glorious in the past was there, in the audience before him, and there was "immense cheering," relieved by some slight colubrine demonstrations.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
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In the 1960's, another development in superconductivity was initiated, by the Englishman Brian Josephson (who received the
Press Release: The 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics
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The Englishman proceeds to pull out two cloth bank bags, seemingly full of money.
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Instead of giving his character a dose of good ol’ American machismo, Brosnan comes off as a refined Englishman slumming it with a shot of American hooch.
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The Englishman has a rare and particular kind of ego and its crucial aspect is that it is always subject to the interests of the team.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Englishman's Castle is situated on a midden of great antiquity.
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Ed the Horse rolls over to have tummy tickled by greenmailing third world An Englishman's Castle: January 30, 2010
An Englishman's Castle
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How does an Englishman greet an acquaintance whom one meets in the street?
Times, Sunday Times
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White beaches, standing stones, flowers on the machair, Gaelic psalm-singing (which sounds like no other church music in Europe - a Chinese or Mongolian feel to it) and monstrous alcohol consumption on a Saturday night (an Englishman is best advised to avoid Stornoway dockside bars) followed by a real Sabbath - no shops, taxis, bars - you go for a walk or go to church.
Archive 2005-06-26
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The flashy intellectual brilliance of Fox is no match for the wisdom of ages, the common sense of the freeborn Englishman.
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John Shakespeare was a kind of equivocator: it's what you do when you're in a corner, when you can't be a Catholic and a loyal Englishman at the same time.
Speaking in Tongues
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Another leading figure in the iatrochemical school, Thomas Willis (1621-75), was an Englishman.
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699
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When Wenton's gumshield flew out of his mouth Parris could do nothing else but signal that the fight was over because the Englishman was in no position to continue and defend himself.
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But both the Italians and the Englishman felt the entertainment would be incomplete without hearing the celebrated vocalist and improvvisatrice who presided over the little banquet; and Madame de Montaigne, with a woman's tact, divined the general wish, and anticipated the request that was sure to be made.
Ernest Maltravers — Complete
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Go back and take the family, the tribe, the petty principality, the little kingdom; it develops into the Heptarchy, and each Englishman begins to see, slowly, of course, but yet gradually-perhaps it takes centuries-he begins to see that every other Englishman is his fellow-countryman.
Education and Empire Unity
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But the ball lipped out of the cup on the 18th hole, meaning the Englishman's six points for his closing round ensured victory.
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Some were sent out for a hack, as Motion, an Englishman, calls a jog through the wooded trails and open fields; others went to the turf course.
NYT > Global Home
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I stopped following the lions after Woodwards outrageous selections for the New Zealand tour last time (20 million Englishman in a 40 odd man squad when they had finished in 4th or 5th in the 6 nations and wales had won the Grand Slam (waled had about 6 players)).
The English, Welsh and Irish Lions
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The Englishman was one of only five players to complete two rounds after high winds suspended play on Thursday.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a brilliant American philosopher once said that what governs the Englishman is his inner atmosphere, the weather in his soul.
St. George and Merrie England
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Malay, looks upon the Englishman as little removed from a "Kafir" -- an uncircumcised Philistine -- who through ignorance constantly offends in minor points of etiquette, who eats pig and drinks strong drink, is ignorant of the dignity of repose, and whose accidental physical and political superiority in the present world will be more than compensated for by the very inferior and uncomfortable position he will attain in the next.
British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo
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As an Englishman who'd lived for a long time in France, he felt a certain conflict of allegiances when the two countries played soccer.
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The Englishman held a lofty finger in the air, and his flocculent hair blew upright in the sea breeze, giving him the look of an unfashionable popinjay.
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Now he displayed toward the Englishman and the Scot a kind of eery, distant graciousness.
Foes
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And the Englishman is confident and has the game to become arguably the best-dressed major winner since Payne Stewart.
Who's next for breakthrough in major? 12 players to watch
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Shakespeare makes the point that even the other beer-and-whisky drinking northern Europeans are nothing, in the size of their potations, compared with the Englishman.
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My teacher is an Englishman with golden hair.
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Brittany use to do with their clappering clickets, yet better resounding and far more harmonious, and with his tongue contracted in his mouth did very merrily warble it, always looking fixedly upon the Englishman.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Her mother's family was Welsh and her father an Englishman with Irish antecedents whose job in the Customs and Excise required the family to move from Chester to Hull, Birkenhead and Cardiff.
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Early on, he suffers the indignity of being three shots behind an Englishman.
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Henriette descended from German-Jewish bloodlines, married an Englishman and then, through her portrait, adopted the identity of an English lady.
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Jamie Lidell, an Englishman who has spent time on the Berlin electronica scene, bounded onstage wearing a gold-lamé jacket with a gold-tinsel wig.
Pitchfork Music Festival: An Afternoon of Cross-dressing, Masks and Glitter - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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So the warehouse cat was named the German, or "Boche," and the attic cat the Englishman, or "Tommy.
The Diary Of A Young Girl
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The hunter refused to acknowledge the farmer, so the farmer struck the Englishman, killing him.
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In Titanic, virtually every Englishman was insufferable, while happy Irish fiddlers and dancers created a wonderful atmosphere in steerage.
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“Dub-a-dub, dub-a-dub — thus go the drums, Tantara, tantara, the Englishman comes.”
The Bible in Spain
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In the eyes of the average Englishman a Jacobin was a monster to be shot at sight and Napoleon was the Chief Devil.
The Story of Mankind
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The Englishman finishes his cigarette, exchanges a joke with his 'bunkie' and coolly goes 'over the top.'
Winning a Cause World War Stories
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Actually, it is not the Englishman's performances that will be closely examined, but signs that he is managing to keep his suspect temperament in check.
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When we think of the King at home we do not picture him in ermine robes, wearing a crown; we think of him as one of ourselves, as a man who might have been just a king, but who prefers to be an Englishman.
The Men Who Saved England
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Twice the big Englishman was presented with a gaping goal and the perfect ball but twice he somehow contrived to miss the target.
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Having recently met a young Englishman of preternatural charm and physique, I surmised (perhaps wrongly) that after a day in the country together, I had managed to engender his affections.
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He was especially shocked that an Englishman should contemplate such a publication, he said, staring at Ryle.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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In the next century an Englishman employed by the Tsar visited Central Asia, and this was followed by the dispatch of emissaries to the various khanates of the region.
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Pocahontas, as the child of her father, would have had more of an authoritative role in converting someone from his original existence as an Englishman," said Ms.
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Benjamin was taken aback when he met him, -- he could scarcely divine what this titled Englishman could want of him.
From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin
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Outside the presence Dicky unbuttoned his coat like an Englishman again, and ten minutes later flung his tarboosh into a corner of the room; for the tarboosh was the sign of official servitude, and Dicky was never the perfect official.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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Englishman, with the placability of his country; "shake hands, and we will be better friends than ever.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827
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Soleure would fain have joined with him in conversation respecting trade and merchandize, yet the Englishman, who dealt in articles of small bulk and considerable value, and traversed sea and land to carry on his traffic, could find few mutual topics to discuss with the Swiss trader, whose commerce only extended into the neighboring districts of Burgundy and Germany, and whose goods consisted of coarse woollen cloths, fustian, hides, peltry and such ordinary articles.
Anne of Geierstein
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An Englishman took the bill, and after a careful examination said he neither knew the drawer, the accepter, nor the backer.
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But it is very disagreeable to an Englishman over a bottle with the Highlanders, to see every one of them have his gilly, that is, his servant, standing behind him all the while, let what will be the subject of conversation.
The Lady of the Lake
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Behind stone walls dripping with clematis, a crabapple's toss away from what he called a "muddle" of windblown daisies, beneath the dappled shade of a weeping beech tree, a ruddy-cheeked Englishman, dressed in a gently rumpled olive suit, sat with a sketch pad spread across his lap.
The Seattle Times
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We will not enter into the plans of the artful insinuator made to enlist the sympathies of the unsuspecting Englishman, but we must ever feel sure that the cloven foot was well concealed until the last, for
Four Months in a Sneak-Box
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The Englishman appeared to have done the hard work after finding the fairway off the 18th tee.
Times, Sunday Times
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In his great novel Ulysses, James Joyce, punning on the old line ‘An Englishman's home is his castle’ reflects that ‘The Irishman's house is his coffin’.
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JM Synge was born an Englishman and inhabited the same gentrified Anglo-Irish world as Yeats.
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The Englishman appeared to have done the hard work after finding the fairway off the 18th tee.
Times, Sunday Times
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It actually struck me on starting this second reading that it is actually a bit plummy but I am sure that is deliberate in order to contrast the up-tight Englishman with the abandoned behaviour of his Danish Lover.
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The pioneering Englishman began kiteboarding eight years ago, and he's not alone in his passion for "kiting" — the new extreme sport du jour for entrepreneurs and the all-around super-wealthy not to mention the upcoming aspirants.
The Sky's the Limit!
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panification" will help you to "panis," because it is an English word meaning "bread-making," and you are an Englishman.
Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget
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According to him, Morris is nothing less than ‘our greatest living Englishman‘- amen to that.
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Englishman Ian poulter takes charge at the Barclays Singapore Open
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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The modern boxing glove was invented in 1743, the brainchild of Englishman Jack Broughton.
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These last words were spoken aside; but the Englishman could not fail to perceive, from the wry mouths of some of the party who were possessed of a nicer palate, that they were as much afraid as himself of a repetition of the acid potation.
Anne of Geierstein
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The Englishman was one of only five players to complete two rounds after high winds suspended play on Thursday.
Times, Sunday Times
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the Englishman said he had a good bathe
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It begins with an encounter between Malory, a repressed Englishman restlessly wandering the globe, and the unnamed narrator, as they holiday in Europe.
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Henrik Larsson, in particular, sprung to meet a dead ball by the Englishman and seemed to strain every neck muscle as he jerked the ball goalwards and prompted Paul Gallacher to tip it over the crossbar.
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The Englishman may be remembered for circumnavigating the world, but Sir Francis Drake also happened to be Queen Elizabeth I's favorite pirate.
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It espoused ideas of the freeborn Englishman resisting the arbitrary powers of his masters and praying in his nonconformist chapel.
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England and Spain were, he declared, at peace, and no official could deny an Englishman the right to travel peaceably in Spanish dominions, unless a law expressly excluded them.
Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea
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Archie is an indecisive Englishman who can only make a decision after tossing a coin.
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Reverting to my reminiscences -- or rather to what are for myself less interesting portions, for I am a land agent by profession and an anecdotist only by habit -- I remember that an Englishman subsequently a
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
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That Englishman belongs to a somewhat exclusive group of people who are able to travel what some call the moonbeam roads.
The Dreamthief's Daughter
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an Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea
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According to Burns's kenspeckle coach Rab Bannon, the shock win over Earl was the result of the Englishman's camp not doing their homework on the Coatbridge boxer.
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For on landing the Portuguese, guided by Morales, soon found the wooden cross and grave of the Englishman and his mistress, and it was there that Zarco, with no human being to dispute his title, "took seizin" of the island in the name of King John, Prince Henry, and the
Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work.
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And Graeme Swann, though forgotten by the eminent judges of the ICC, proved that an Englishman is currently the best spinner in the world.
Return of Ashes spirit can lift England out of post-Pakistan mire
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Thus, despite the immeasurable advantages which England enjoyed, political, social, and industrial, her great colonial possessions from which she drew enormous wealth, and her exemption from destructive war; despite also the distressing condition of France and her recent enormous losses, we find that in seventy years of bimetallism the working Frenchman had gained wealth almost twice as fast as the working Englishman had in the same number of years of monometallism.
If Not Silver, What?
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According to Heine, an Englishman loves liberty as a good husband loves his wife; that is also how he loves the land of his birth; at all events, England has a kind of wifely embrace for the home-coming
The Martian
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As the wind picked up, the tent poles began to creak and the drizzle degenerated into a downpour, the young Englishman scuttled off into the clubhouse hoping that doom-laden forecasts would work in his favour.
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Anyone not an Englishman is upon landing likely to notice an elderly, gray-haired, high-hatted English gentleman who looks like a retired army officer or cleric and who generally carries an umbrella.
The Secrets of the German War Office
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He is so as a disciple of Carlyle, as a prosperous Englishman, not destitute of flunkyism, and also as a man whose very best power is that of passionately admiring individual greatness.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864
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An Englishman calls himself young at fifty.
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ConorEnglishman Its good to be back in rangiora ..
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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For an Englishman, with no protective hat, it could be injurious to health.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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The lama brought his thousand-wrinkled face once more a handsbreadth from the Englishman’s.
Kim
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Coquelin did some excellent French monologues — one of them an ungrammatical Englishman telling a colorless historiette in French.
Mark Twain: A Biography
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After all, one thing an Englishman particularly dislikes is a good old-fashioned gold-plated hypocrite like Mr. Byrne.
Another Guilty Leftie Hyprocrite
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Except for his impeccably accented English and a certain indefinable air about his bearing (I always say no one slouches quite as elegantly as an Englishman), an observer might have taken my son for one of the Egyptians among whom he had spent most of his life.
Excerpt: He Shall Thunder In The Sky by Elizabeth Peters
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This time the person concerned was a burly Englishman who dealt with any resistance to tube insertion by the use of brute force.
Times, Sunday Times
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We see he's not a god or an angel, but an ordinary man - a handsome, patrician Englishman to be sure, but mortal.
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The jug-eared Englishman meanwhile dressed down in a winter jacket, crumpled looking jeans and black trainers.
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And so, when the next great question arises, the Englishman may again make the Times his crony and confabulator, just as he would more likely, through general sympathy of notions and feelings, to take counsel with private acquaintances who had erred with him in predicting success to the South, rather than with those who had dissented from him in desire and expectation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
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Nearly every Englishman of working-class origin considers it effeminate to pronounce a foreign word correctly.
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According to Martin, Leo IV (847-855) was succeeded in the papal chair by the Englishman John of Mainz (Johannes Anglicus) who reigned for two years, seven months, and four days until it was discovered that the pontiff was a woman.
Archive 2009-02-01
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Standing in the arcade on the side of the "quad" opposite the entrance, if one looks on the ceiling immediately above the capital of the second column to the left there is seen the stemma which appears as tailpiece to this chapter, put up by a young Englishman, William Harvey, who had been a student at Padua for four years.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine
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He, the crook, an Englishman very probably, had been "cuter" than I; he had "had" me, an American.
Walking-Stick Papers
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The Englishman may be a quiet soul, but he has a renowned sense of humour and a penchant for practical jokes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Italians reluctant converts to the opinion of the Englishman, that the lugger was the dreaded and obnoxious Feu-Follet.
The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet
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The Englishman quits this life proudly and disdainfully when the whim takes him, but the Roman must have an indulgentia in articulo mortis; he can neither live nor die.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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As the traceried windows suggest, it was less a defensive structure than a six-storey mansion built on a castle theme – truly an Englishman's home.
Gothic architecture in Britain: examples from the era
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Hollister, but "the Englishman" and his wife -- who was a "pippin" for looks -- were still in the forefront of his mind when the trail led him out on the river bank a few hundred yards from their house.
The Hidden Places
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An hour had passed, when another Englishman was standing by the wailing girl, and round him a dozen shockheaded kernes, skene on thigh and javelin in hand, were tossing about their tawny rags, and adding their lamentations to those of the lonely watcher.
Westward Ho!
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Any man who is entitled to the Esq. is a gentleman, by which an Englishman means a man of sound connections and what is regarded as dignified occupationin brief, of ponderable social position.
Chapter 4. American and English Today. 3. Honorifics
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An Englishman is an alien in America.
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The Englishman's proverbial lack of bragging is a subtler form of brag after all.
Chapter 15
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In the eyes of the Englishman December in Northern India is a month of halcyon days, of days dedicated to sport under perfect climatic conditions, of bright sparkling days spent at the duck tank, at the snipe _jhil_, in the _sal_ forest, or among the Siwaliks, days on which office files rest in peace, and the gun, the rifle and the rod are made to justify their existence.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India
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A fight, a fight! form a ring!" and the proposition for a combat _a la fistiana_ was received with joy by every Englishman present.
The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia
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The once mighty Lord Chancellor, dressed as a common sailor with shaven eyebrows and coaldust smeared on his cheeks, hated with a furious intensity of loathing which has never been felt for an Englishman before or since, knocked fearfully at dead of night at the door of the house where his dying daughter lay.
Highways and Byways in Surrey
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Englishman Westwood, who won back-to-back Asian Tour tournaments in Indonesia and South Korea in April, said the Amata Spring course was fantastic'' and the tournament a boost to golf in the region.
Big Names Tee Up for Thailand
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There's the depressed response to a failed marriage ( 'If You Love Somebody Set Them Free'); there's the political commentary rendered obsolete by the historical turn of events ( 'Russians'); and there's the ill-conceived stab at wholly un-Sting-like campery ( 'Englishman In New York').
Fields of Gold
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One of the two lunged at Lord John, but the Englishman was swifter and his sword rammed hard into the Frenchman's belly.
Sharpe's Waterloo
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For an Englishman, with no protective hat, it could be injurious to health.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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For an Englishman, with no protective hat, it could be injurious to health.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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And the weather, so unpredictable in Melbourne at this time of the year, was cool, cloudy and therefore even more alien to the Englishman's style.
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When he limped out of his bedroom he had "tubbed" himself as thoroughly as an Englishman and felt as ravenous as a wolf.
Bloom of Cactus
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Judging by his accent, there was a well-educated Englishman under all the dirt.
SACRAMENT
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The set retails at mid price and those who love the Englishman's way with Puccini should better snap it up before the deletion axe falls.
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Whatever the case, the young Englishman's account is pure hokum.
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If he wins-and it's a big if-he'll be the first Englishman to win for fifty years.
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Reginald Scot was attacked by James I in Daemonologie (1597), with the future king slating the one called Scot an Englishman and maintaining that such assaultes of Sathan are most certainly practised & that the instruments thereof, merits most severly to be punished.36 In Basilikon Doron (1599) he wrote: witchcraft takes its place with wilful murder, incest, sodomy, poisoning and false coining as horrible crimes that yee are bound in conscience neuer to forgiue.37
Bedlam
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An Englishman’s home is his castle.
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He was especially shocked that an Englishman should contemplate such a publication, he said, staring at Ryle.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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The black-eyed and pretty Provencale courtesied with due decorum, and glanced at the handsome young Englishman with an eye of approbation; but, whether afraid of his character as a philosopher, or his doubtful rank, added the saving clause, — “If my mother approves.”
Anne of Geierstein
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Bunster fled away in a cutter to Guvutu, where he signalized himself by beating up a young Englishman already crippled by a Boer bullet through both hips.
MAUKI
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As an Englishman who'd lived for a long time in France, he felt a certain conflict of allegiances when the two countries played soccer.
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One of the more memorable being the rescue of Englishman Tony Bullimore and other yachtsmen after their vessels became disabled in January 1997.
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To an Englishman's judgment the true “part of Hamlet” in a feast is the more generous fluid, and the greatest luxuries are simply Barmecidal without some wholesome stimulant to wash them down; accordingly, my too outspoken honesty protested thus in print against this form of folly in extremes, and either pleased or offended, as friends or foes might choose to take it.
My Life as an Author
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Like many other clichés, that of the rosbif, the beef-fed Englishman with a fleshy face and high colour, contains more than a grain of truth.
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The Englishman prizes privacy, the American prefers sociability.
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Englishman will mak a spang at it — But I wash my hands o’t — Follow me sir” (to Andrew), “and I’se show ye where to pit the beasts.”
Rob Roy
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This reminds me of some Englishman or another I read once who complained that “Scottish” is an awkward, incorrect importation from the Celts, and that there indeed exists a perfectly good English word to describes things or people from Scotland, namely Scotch.
Matthew Yglesias » My Long-Awaited Revenge
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`The question is, boyo, whether the Englishman caught on or whether the RAF are still listening in.
CORMORANT
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He is a lumpy Englishman with shaven head, big feet and a small rucksack.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Englishman has a rare and particular kind of ego and its crucial aspect is that it is always subject to the interests of the team.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Briton forgetting his Defoe, [Footnote: The True-born Englishman.] the Jew forgetting the very word proselyte, the German forgetting his anthropometric variations, and the Italian forgetting everything, are obsessed by the singular purity of their blood, and the danger of contamination the mere continuance of other races involves.
A Modern Utopia
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In honor of this great event, we repost the speech which the blessed Englishman delivered on the day of his formal reception of the cardinalatial title.
Archive 2009-07-01
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UPDATE 3 - I see from the Englishman that the Royal Marine who got kicked in the head during their attempt to win the Turner prize has said his assailant is a 'good mate'.
Archive 2005-12-11
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At an art museum in Europe, an Englishman, a Frenchman, and a North Korean stand before a painting of Adam and Eve holding an apple in the Garden of Eden.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Reuters on North Korean Comedy
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An emotionally constipated Englishman is something we're all used to, but when the hero is American you have to wonder what's wrong with the chap.
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Auguste Marmont, son of an ironmaster, had outmanoeuvred the Englishman, outmarched him, and all that had to be done now was to outrun him to Portugal.
Sharpe's Sword
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Mr. The Englishman had got as far into his usual objurgation as,
Somebody's Luggage
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And then there came a chorus of bonsoirs from host, from hostess, and from the lad who now stood waiting with the Englishman's large portmanteau hitched up on his shoulder.
The End of Her Honeymoon
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Up and down England men start to muster their forces and consider whether they would do better under a hated French queen with a true-born baby prince in her arms, or to follow the handsome and beloved Englishman, Richard of York, to wherever his ambition may take him.
The Red Queen
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She kneeled here, where the indent is deeper, next to where the Englishman lay.
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It espoused ideas of the freeborn Englishman resisting the arbitrary powers of his masters and praying in his nonconformist chapel.
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The conchologist was probably John Warren, described by Dall as a stout, florid, old Englishman who dealt in shells and curios.
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Cary Grant, you will remember, was the sophisticated, urbane Englishman.
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The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his accommodation at inns, and on the roads; a quiddle about his toast and his chop, and every species of convenience, and loud and pungent in his expressions of impatience at any neglect.
VI. English Traits. Manners
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The Newscaster, reporting on the scene, tries to distract his audience from the horrid nightmare by relating an Englishman's views on Steel Tariffs.
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The work challenged was Striggio's 40-part Ecce beatum lautam; the challenge was for an Englishman to produce a work that would excel this piece produced by an Italian.
Archive 2006-10-01
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An hour had passed, when another Englishman was standing by the wailing girl, and round him a dozen shockheaded kernes, skene on thigh and javelin in hand, were tossing about their tawny rags, and adding their lamentations to those of the lonely watcher.
Westward Ho!
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Lee won that on a respotted black and once Ding missed an easy pink in the next frame the balance shifted towards the Englishman, who went on to triumph.
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It may be added that, as being himself a blunt and downright Englishman, unaccustomed to conceal the slightest movement either of love or of dislike, he accounted the fair-spoken courtesy which the Scots had learned, either from imitation of their frequent allies, the
The Talisman
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‘It looks like a cowpat,’ said the decorous Englishman who ordered it, ‘but it tastes good.’
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The Englishman can no more be trifling and light-hearted in the Gallic manner than a Polar bear can dance the _maxixe brésilienne_ in the jungle.
Nights in London
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Bertram Cornell, the indurate, cold-blooded Englishman, is struck by many arrows but remains upright and still as a statue as his comrades make their way to safety.
“Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.”
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When an Englishman used the word proper, he could only mean one thing—another Englishman.
The Devil Wears Plaid
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The ordinary Englishman is not a great believer in devils or spirits of evil: though he does in some instances believe in ghosts, and is inclined to the practice of what in former ages was called necromancy -- the attempt to establish an illicit connexion with the spirits of the departed -- under the modern name of psychical research.
Religious Reality
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This quiet Englishman who never used an uncivil phrase, never sought high office, but won the affection of everyone he met, and attained the highest office in Rotary.
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Since reading about it as a boy, Amundsen had been fascinated by Englishman John Franklin's disastrous search for the Northwest Passage.
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Tommy the Englishman lived in Germany for over three months and managed to have fewer cultural fau paxs than you have had in what, four days?
Observations on D-Land: I Steal a Euro, and Meet a Cool Cop
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The town itself, the capital of a small rajahship governed by an Englishman, lies some twenty miles up a river, in the estuary of which we are anchored.
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
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The two-volume set comes complete with beautifully drawn pull-out maps of some of the major battlefields - but what really tickled Lee's interest was the idea of an unknown Englishman taking part in the great events.
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A great polymorphous injunction bound the Englishman and the poor Lorrainese peasant alike. As history would have it, the latter was named Jouy.
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The servant was a grave and sedate looking Englishman, between 50 and 60 years of age, and informed me that he had known Colonel Tarleton from his earliest youth, having lived for many years in the family of his father, a worthy clergyman, at whose particular request he had followed the Colonel to this country, with the view that, if overtaken by disease and suffering in his headlong career, he might have some one near him who had known him ere the pranksome mischief of the boy had hardened into the sterner vices of the man.
The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773