Norman

(noun.) an inhabitant of Normandy.

(noun.) Australian golfer (born in 1955).

(noun.) United States operatic soprano (born in 1945).

(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of the Normans; 'the Norman Invasion in 1066' .

(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of Normandy; 'Norman beaches' .

整理:史黛丝

• But, though luxurious, the Norman nobles were not generally speaking an intemperate race. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The son of Hereward knows how to keep his word, even when it has been passed to a Norman. 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.
• But the wager of battle is complete, even according to the fantastic fashions of Norman chivalry--Is it not, Father Aymer? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I know no language, he said, but my own, and a few words of their mincing Norman. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Thou art no outlaw, but a Norman--a Norman, noble perhaps in birth--O, be so in thy actions, and cast off this fearful mask of outrage and violence! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The horses were generally very strong, formed much like the Norman horse, and with very heavy manes and tails. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• We shall cheer her sorrows, said Prince John, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Turning their horses, therefore, at the same moment, the Norman spurred against the Disinherited Knight on the one side, and the Saxon on the other. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Thou sayst well, said the Jester; had I been born a Norman, as I think thou art, I would have had luck on my side, and been next door to a wise man. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• When did thy master hear of a Norman baron unbuckling his purse to relieve a churchman, whose bags are ten times as weighty as ours? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• So, at least, one explanation of orientation is found by such students of orientation as Sir Norman Lockyer. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Go patter thy petitions to heaven, said the fierce Norman, for we on earth have no time to listen to them. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• My daughter, Richard, whose alliance thou didst scorn--was that no injury to a Norman, whose blood is noble as thine own? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The Norman-English came in 1169, in the time of Henry II and onward. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They came by diverse routes from France, Normandy, Flanders, England, Southern Italy, and Sicily, and the will and power of them were the Normans. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Meanwhile the Normans from Normandy were also finding their way into the Mediterranean from the West. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And yet, said he, I think my Saxon countrymen had herded long enough with the Normans, to fall into the tone of their melancholy ditties. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Reserve thine homage then, said the Monarch, until I shall prove my right to it by my equal protection of Normans and English. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The outer walls have probably been added by the Normans, but the inner keep bears token of very great antiquity. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Thereby he might hope to end the private warfare that prevailed, and find a proper outlet for the immense energy of the Normans. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Thither will I go, were it only to show these proud Normans how little the fate of a son, who could defeat their bravest, can affect a Saxon. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The swine turned Normans to my comfort! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Look at me--I was as young and twice as fair as thou, when Front-de-Boeuf, father of this Reginald, and his Normans, stormed this castle. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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