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Example Sentences

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Now to this there is a short and ready Reply: For, in the first place, if the Gauls learnt Greek by the Example of the Massilians, 'tis plain, 'twas none of their Mother-tongue.

From Franco-Gallia Or, An Account of the Ancient Free State of France, and Most Other Parts of Europe, Before the Loss of Their Liberties by Hotman, François

Mother-tongue has now become part and parcel of our common speech; a good word, and a noble one.

From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Chamberlain, Alexander F.

Abusive or insulting had been better; but our Knight believed the learned language more convenient to understand in than his own Mother-tongue.

From Hudibras by Butler, Samuel

Thou remembrest that vpon the face there hung an ornament, with certaine Ideonix ionic and Arabic, which in our Mother-tongue, is as much to say, as labour, and industrie.

From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Dallington, Robert