anglo-saxony

Example Sentences

• "Our Constitution nourished twins. It carried Africa on its left bosom, and Anglo-Saxony on its right bosom; and these two, drawing milk from the same bosom, have waxed strong, and stand to-day federated into the one republic."
• "Nothing draws like the naughty. Now, the Cercle ball is supposed to be the naughtiest of the “respectable” masked balls during the season. Hence Anglo-Saxony invested in the Cercle ball last year to the clear profit of $6,000. Arithmetical persons with keen faces, who hovered near the box-office last night, maintained that Anglo-Saxony was done for $10,000 this year."
• "By the middle of the century, J[ohn] M[itchell] Kemble’s bestselling work The Saxons in England (1849) had acquainted a wide public with the trend in German and English scholarship, which was to seek an antique model for a common racial heritage in the concept of Anglo-Saxony. […] Anglo-Saxony and queenship were seen as complementary, and the cult of Anglo-Saxony as confirming England’s right to lead (and own) most of the world. […] By the mid-century Judith had acquired a role as a national identity, Englishness, and as an international ethnicity, Anglo-Saxony, which was in implicit opposition to her other incarnation as Romantic Criminal. […] In sharp contrast to the antisemitic Germanic psychological tradition, the ideology of Anglo-Saxony exalted Judith as one of its models of distinctive national character."
• "To conclude the observations relative to Anglo-Saxony, it may be observed that, the principal part of its territory, when most extended, is now included in the dominions of Prussia; […]"
• "As to the strife itself, it appears to have lain between equal forces, as far as we can now conjecture. The south-west of Scotland was then probably an ally of Kenneth, as being of the same race. All the south-east was Anglo-Saxony."
• "Vikings were considered of inferior racial specimen during the Nordic atempts to civilise British Anglo-Saxony."