early English
Example Sentences
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The name Welsh rarebit appeared much later, with early English cookbooks, such as Hannah Glasse's in 1747, using terms including Welsh rabbit and Scotch rabbit for similar cheese on toast recipes.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2025
And while Oglethorpe’s efforts to prohibit slavery in Georgia ultimately failed, Thurmond argues he left a lasting — and largely uncredited — legacy by influencing early English abolitionists.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024
Popular understanding of Virginia’s native people comes from early English accounts, and Jamestown settlers were all about Powhatan, Pocahontas and the Indians along the James and York rivers.
From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2018
These early English harpsichord pieces had no history of piano performance until Gould’s charismatic advocacy.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2018
It would have been, I believe, considered sacrilegious for any of my early English teachers to mention that a Shakespeare, a Shelley, or a Keats even considered accepting money for the words.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
