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Meanings of typically english in English

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Usage of typically english in English
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The scene, I have said, was almost typically English-butto the eye only.
Poison Island
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Both these interests, as we have previously seen, were typically English.
The History of Education / Educational Practice and Progress Con...
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That would be typically English, but it is not the way to set records.
The Guardian
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It would be hard to find a more typically English, upper-middle-class club than Sunningdale.
The Guardian
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How admirably impressive is Mr. Jones's typically English absence of hysteria, his calm, his restfulness.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920
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Gwendoline was a beautiful girl of thirty-three, typically English in the freshness of her girlish innocence.
Literary Lapses
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Charles Lamb, a typically English author, wrote a poem beginning "Who first invented work?"
Nonsenseorship
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The conversation was typically English, and as it progressed they used their own terminology to express their feelings.
The new yorker
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For a time you console yourself that it's typically English to be silent, it's regal to be silent.
Look Back on Happiness
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Lilith's parents had not lied; they had, in a typically English manner, hoped their omissions would speak for themselves.
White corridor
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It is also true that all the most typically English men of action were sentimentalists, if possible, more sentimental.
Heretics
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She was so typically English.
Jewels
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I am typically English, sir.
The Voice in the Fog
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"A lovely, angelic-looking creature, typically English; golden hair; skin like cream and roses."
The Princess Passes
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It's just typically English.
The Guardian
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(Foreigners always said that her complexion was typically English.)
Travels With My Aunt
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