How To Use Frankish In A Sentence
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The Frankish army was just threatening enough that Zengi could not risk being trapped between it and the Damascenes; he withdrew to Baalbeck to await a better moment.
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A significant group of Frankish legal codices reflects the activity of a small group of scribes presided over by the cancellarius and associated with the royal court.
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So they clad themselves in Frankish clothes and, when Kuzia Fakan saw them, she exclaimed, “By the truth of the Lord of Worship, did I not know you, I should take you to be indeed Franks!”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Only wait, said he, and the Frankish bandits would fall to quarrelling among themselves like the robbers they were.
THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
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`And who, Mr Bowden," asked Tweedy, `was the chief of these Frankish bandits who quarrelled among themselves over the loot?
THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
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From the time of Charlemagne the above-named German tribes lived under Frankish constitution retaining their own old laws, which Charlemagne codified.
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As they expanded, they began, for inscrutable Frankish reasons, to devoice word-final obstruents this is the blue isogloss, thereby establishing Frankish as its own distinct, highly conservative dialect.
The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model
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Modern attention tends to concentrate on the Romanic French side of the splitting Frankish world of the ninth and tenth centuries, because a particularly strong and creative society would find its center there in succeeding centuries.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
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Contemporary Frankish writers are explicit in making the timing of the battle of Fontenoy dependant on Pippin's appearance.
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[Footnote 93: I call the Frankish king by the name by which he is best known in history, though no doubt the more correct form is either
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
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When the main army had safely traversed the passes, the rear was suddenly attacked by an overwhelming body of mountaineers, Gascons and Basques, who, resenting the violation of their mountain sanctuaries, and longing for plunder, drove the Frankish rearguard into a little valley (now marked by the chapel of Ibagneta and still called Roncesvalles), and there slew every man.
Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race
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So they played, and he lost and went away, chattering in Frankish jargon and saying,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The Basques and the Gascons annihilated them, and among the fallen was the Frankish commander Roland.
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As time went by the dukedom was enlarged, and the inhabitants became less and less Viking, and more Frankish in their way of life until eventually they became the people now known as the Normans.
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When I was researching the Strongbow Saga series, I several times turned to the Houston Public Library system to obtain copies of hard-to-find copies of translations of old texts, such as Frankish annals from the ninth century.
Genre Chick Interview: Judson Roberts
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Massive baggage trains enabled rapid troop movement by the Frankish army without repeated foraging.
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Frankish costume, with high-laced boots, linen tunic, blue cloak, and sword girt at his side.
Early European History
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The great Frankish leader who unified the confederacy into a powerful entity was Clovis, first of the Merovingian kings.
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The Franks inhabited and ruled the territory called Francia also known as Frankish Empire, Kingdom of the Franks or Frankland from the 3rd to 10th century.
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In the West Frankish realm (soon to become France), horseshoes, horse collars, and mouldboard plows suddenly came into use.
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A Frankish royal writing office with archchancellor and notaries can be documented throughout the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
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Back in the main town, we explored twisting alleys which eventually led us to the old Frankish quarter.
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Of course, I am comparing the differences between the Visigoth and Frankish forced conversions and exterminations of the Jews as a favourable comparison to the second class citizens they were under Moorish rule.
Islam: The Invasions Of Europe « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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A French philosopher had more in common with a Chinese mandarin than with his barbaric Frankish ancestors in the Dark Ages.
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Perhaps could the eye of Anastasius have pierced through the mists of seven future centuries, could he have foreseen the insults, the extortions, the cruelties which a Roman Emperor at Constantinople was to endure at the hands of "Frankish" invaders, [111] he would not have been so eager in his worship of the new sun which was rising over Gaul from out of the marshes of the Scheldt.
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
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I'm just an apologist for Frankish substantialism and totalitarianism and puritanism and individualism and rationalism and ...
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Such payments were also common in the ninth century, and both Anglo-Saxon and Frankish chronicles are full of references to rulers ‘making peace’ with the raiders.
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From this Gallic system of clientship there developed, in Frankish times, the conception of the ‘lord's man’ (homagium or hominium).
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He’s even included little touches that add to a sense of atmosphere, such as Frankish women collecting arrows from the dead bodies of the foes during a break in battle.
09 « October « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon
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The typical crosspiece of the Frankish spear implies the use of the weapon from horseback.
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He had three other daughters besides these—Theoderada, Hiltrud, and Ruodhaid—two by his third wife, Fastrada, a woman of East Frankish that is to say, of German origin, and the third by a concubine, whose name for the moment escapes me.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
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The power and skill of this one man built the great Frankish empire, and upon his death seemingly it died.
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From the time of Charlemagne the above-named German tribes lived under Frankish constitution retaining their own old laws, the leges barbarorum, which Charlemagne codified.
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He was evidently, immensely pleased with his own little bit of book-learning; he even insisted on talking and writing Latin -- pure "swank" -- whereas his family would surely have preferred their native Frankish.
From a Terrace in Prague
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Some purport to function as collections for the Frankish and Visigothic kingdoms, like the Vetus Gallica of c.700 or the Hispana, c.700, respectively.
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He tried without success to attack the Frankish strongholds while the Crusader army was pinned down in Egypt.
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The northern tongue was influenced by Frankish, the Germanic language of the Franks, who gave their name to both France and French.
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Many supporters from leading Frankish families followed him to Italy and were for a long time cut off from their properties and benefices in the countries of origin (which were often even confiscated).
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On the approach of the Frankish army he again raised the siege, but this time the Franks gave battle.
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So I concealed my case till this year, when I wrote to certain Frankish corsairs and sought news of my daughter from the Kings of the
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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For hours he played on indefatigably, repeating his whole repertory of Frankish discords at least a score of times, and telling all who asked that he had acquired his skill in foreign music by instruction from the greatest living master of the art -- a certain English mariner named William.
The Valley of the Kings
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Frankish soldiers commit a terrible mass execution of defiant Saxons at Verden.
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Frankish soldiers commit a terrible mass execution of defiant Saxons at Verden.
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I recalled their Frankish forefathers, swarming down the Apennines, upon
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
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The monsters thus produced seem to be a revival of the dracontine forms of the semi-barbarous Celtic and early Frankish arts.
Illuminated Manuscripts
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Boniface was also prominent in Frankish church reform and functioned as representative of the pope to the Franks.
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Frankish warrior from the time of Charlemagne.
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Some had experience of Frankish Gaul and hence some acquaintance with Roman institutions and culture.
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In the West Frankish realm (soon to become France), horseshoes, horse collars, and mouldboard plows suddenly came into use.
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Grauert, for whom the forger is a Frankish subject, shares the view of Hergenröther, i.e. the forger had in mind a defence of the new Western Empire from the attacks of the Byzantines.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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He came to the throne of the Frankish kingdom in 771 and ruled until 814.
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This delightful anthology of prose and poetry, mostly homegrown but with contributions from Pliny on the magnificence of the box hedges cut into a thousand animal shapes in his Tuscan garden (with hippodrome), the 9th-century Frankish monk Strabo on the cultivation of dung heaps, and Thomas Jefferson on his ever-expanding vegetable patch, is the perfect companion for weeding, dead-heading, pricking out and mulching.
Back to nature
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In central Francia in the ninth century, moreover, the Frankish king did not hesitate to remove benefices from church lands to give them to his vassi, or to force the church to maintain mounted soldiers at its own expense.
