Usage of "old english"

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Early form of English, spoken circa 450–1100.

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Uso de old english em inglês

Or let us proceed in the Old English of the Golden Legend. 
 The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 

Afterward Chaucer wrote these down in a book in quaint old English. 
 Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) / Classic Tales and Old-F... 

NOTES.-Thispiece is written in the style of the old English ballads. 
 McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader 

This is one of the old English medicinal plants still in use. 
 The Life of the Fields 

A fine, old English institution in disarray, having under-performed over recent years. 
 The Irish Times 

My father brought the wainscoting from an old English country-house in Dorsetshire. 
 The Inn at the Red Oak 

Under each oblong of paper was a title in old English characters. 
 Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales 

Browne loitered up to the stall and amassed two month- old English magazines. 
 Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales 

The Lochaber-ax is only a slight alteration of the old English bill. 
 A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland 

Our breakfast consisted of what the Squire denominated true old English fare. 
 Old Christmas 

Jeffersonian Democrats had long ago abolished the old English law of primogeniture. 
 The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South 

The engraving may be in script, block, shaded block, or old English. 
 Etiquette 

He was an 18year- old English Protestant, penniless but hardworking, ambitious and shrewd. 
 The Irish Times 

Another division is called the Old English, Early English, and Middle English. 
 The Interdependence of Literature 

But you must remember that old English poetry was not like ours. 
 English Literature for Boys and Girls 

An old English law which prevents a neighbor from shutting off sunlight. 
 Aeroplanes 

Significados de old english em inglês