How To Use Jacobean In A Sentence
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Until fairly recently the history of Catholicism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England was conceived largely in terms of hagiology.
William Byrd and the Catholics
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That's her Jacobean country mansion, I've read articles about it in Hello!
RESCUING ROSE
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The harsh wooden surfaces of Jacobean England were embellished with elaborate gimps, galloons, fringes and tassels.
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The disc evokes sighing poets and melancholy lutenists in the chambers of a Jacobean manor.
Times, Sunday Times
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This Jacobean country mansion is set in magnificent parklands landscaped by Capability Brown.
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The architects took their cue for the design of the new pub from the nearby Jacobean house, Aston Hall.
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Jacobean plays always end with bad deeds punished.
Times, Sunday Times
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Shakespeare studies call for a thorough knowledge of a wide spectrum of pre-Shakespearean, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, the Elizabethan stage and dramaturgy.
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Hatfield House is a fine example of Jacobean architecture.
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At the end of the long room a carved Jacobean strecher table was spread with open books and paper maps.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Tudor warred with Jacobean led into Baroque until the whole place was a hodgepodge of styles and periods.
Earl of Durkness
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Rudyard Kipling spent the second half of his life at Bateman's, his solid Jacobean home in the Weald which had been 'untouched and unfaked' by Victorian 'improvers'
Weatherwatch
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Luke in Clan MacNeil, Arne in the Sassenach 's Jacobean tartan.
THE THORN BIRDS
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The second chapter deals with the Jacobean court and the performance of the masques.
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Doubtless the politicians will enjoy plotting and scheming in the Jacobean nooks and corners.
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Moreover, in Jacobean drama calculation and cynicism are typically coded as daemonic and intrigue is in league with Evil.
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On Sunday I went to church at a pretty, old church in Bedford & after Mr S shewed me an old Jacobean house (now converted into a mansion by a Yankee, a relative of Carnigie(?) or Pierfont Morgans.)
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A bit like asking a promising young Jacobean playwright to take over from Shakespeare.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bewigged statue of that landowner, sitting in his Jacobean-style chair, gazes uninterrupted across this remote part of the valley.
Country diary: Bere Alston, Tamar Valley
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Jacobean writers
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Critical investigation has brought to light a voluminous mass of material on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.
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One might object that Elizabethan and Jacobean Justice was every bit as cruel and bloody as the awful spectacle that Moryson witnessed.
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If my own enthusiasm was kept within bounds, it was partly because Noble treats this wonderful, neglected play as if it were a spectacular masque or Jacobean musical.
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In many ways, Unwin's approach is traditional: the costume is early Jacobean and Neil Warmington's set is simply a raked platform against a grey cyclorama.
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And this time we leave the tape recorder whirring in the ‘haunted Jacobean bedroom’ for a full half hour.
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This is Jacobean comedy at its documentary best: a salty, vivid report on the eternal clash between the puritan ethic and spendthrift snobbery.
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Hatfield House is a fine example of Jacobean architecture.
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We three girls sat on very uncomfortable upright chairs around the mock-Jacobean dining table.
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He had studied to advantage the Elizabethan and Jacobean masters of the string fantasy.
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Natalie Angier weighs in on the human proclivity for cursing in a lengthy essay in the NYT: "The Jacobean dramatist Ben Jonson peppered his plays with fackings and "peremptorie Asses," and Shakespeare could hardly quill a stanza without inserting profanities of the day like "zounds" or "sblood
Science Project
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Hatfield House is a fine example of Jacobean architecture.
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There were many magnificent pieces at Tresillian, but mostly heavy items of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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The Jacobean manor house is crumbling rapidly having lost its roof and now even its walls are in danger of falling.
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an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas
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He smiled at his beautiful wife, as he stood in front of the Jacobean armoire from which he'd just pulled a freshly starched shirt.
PAINT THE WIND
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(through whose tortured glottis the word nymphet has decisively been lifted into the linguistic mainstream from the minor Jacobean rivulets of Drayton and Drummond), whose speech is effectively spoonerized by the "tender, mysterious, impure, indifferent twilight eyes" of "Haze, Dolores" (to firmly place the child where she belongs -- in a school attendance list):
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
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Jacobean plays always end with bad deeds punished.
Times, Sunday Times
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Given the diversity of politics identified in Jacobean masques, it is somewhat disappointing that the study concludes with the traditional view of the Caroline masque as one-dimensional in nature.
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But any significant new insights into that strange, perverse Jacobean tragicomedy contrived to pass me by.
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The architects took their cue for the design of the new pub from the nearby Jacobean house, Aston Hall.
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Doubtless the politicians will enjoy plotting and scheming in the Jacobean nooks and corners.
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Other features of the church are the fine restored rood-screen, the 15th century font with its enriched Jacobean cover, the carved bench-ends under the tower and two 15th century stalls with misereres in the chancel, and a certain amount of medieval glass in two windows.
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That's her Jacobean country mansion, I've read articles about it in Hello!
RESCUING ROSE
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Beatus of Liebana, the defender of Spanish orthodoxy against the adoptianist heresy, repeats the Jacobean tradition in the year 780; the same is commemorated by Venerable
RORATE CÆLI
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Shakespeare's ambivalently comic treatment of power, sexuality, and repression belongs very much to the early years of the Jacobean period.
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Three in the morning would be the time for the fullest, bleariest appreciation of its Jacobean qualities.
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Chippendale and Sheraton design which, though fresh from the workman's hands, looked older than the originals from which they had been plagiarized; also I recall a Jacobean refectory table, the legs of which appeared to have been eaten half away by time, but which had, in reality, been "antiqued" with a stiff wire brush.
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