Saxon

(noun.) a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest.

(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language; 'Saxon princes'; 'for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one' .

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• A forfeit--a forfeit, shouted the robbers; a Saxon hath thirty zecchins, and returns sober from a village! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I will wait till I see the Anglo-Saxon brushing away harlotry with a toothbrush. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• What thinkst thou of gaining fair lands and livings, by wedding a Saxon, after the fashion of the followers of the Conqueror? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Neither, said Front-de-Boeuf, belong to this Saxon's company. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Mr Lightwood murmured 'Vigorous Saxon spirit--Mrs Boffin's ancestors--bowmen--Agincourt and Cressy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Yet think not that I care for thy company, or propose myself advantage by it; remain here if thou wilt--Cedric the Saxon may protect thee. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Saxon or Jew, answered the Prince, Saxon or Jew, dog or hog, what matters it? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The noble and solemn air with which Rebecca made this appeal, gave it double weight with the fair Saxon. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It was felt at once that the mouth did not come over from Sleswig with a band of Saxon pirates whose lips met like the two halves of a muffin. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I would see your Saxon kindred together, Sir Wilfred, and become better acquainted with them than heretofore. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Yet, bethink thee, noble Saxon, said the knight, thou hast neither hauberk, nor corslet, nor aught but that light helmet, target, and sword. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• When at length a real emperor reappears in Western Europe (962), he is not a Frank, but a Saxon; the conquered in Germany have become the masters. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But Matilda, though of the royal Saxon blood, was not the heir to the monarchy. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Oh, a Norman saw will soon cut a Saxon collar. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The other appointments of the mansion partook of the rude simplicity of the Saxon period, which Cedric piqued himself upon maintaining. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• In Britain Latin was practically wiped out by the conquering Anglo-Saxons, from among whose various dialects the root stock of English presently grew. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• These pagan Saxons and English of the mainland and their kindred from Denmark and Norway are the Danes and Northmen of our national histories. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Saxons started from the table, and hastened to the window. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• These Anglo-Saxons were as yet not Christianized. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Is it too much that two Saxons, myself and the noble Athelstane, should hold land in the country which was once the patrimony of our race? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• He reviled them as Saxons and snobs at the very top pitch of his high Celtic voice; they taunted him with being the native of a conquered land. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Indeed the ideas of the Saxons on these occasions were as natural as they were rude. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Another group, stationed under the gallery occupied by the Saxons, had shown no less interest in the fate of the day. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• We have noted the peculiar bias of the early Anglo-Saxons and Northmen against the monks and nuns. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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