She was a flower of Anglo-Saxon stock, a rarity in the exceptional smallness and fineness of hand and foot and bone and grace of flesh and carriage--some throw-back across the face of time to the foraying
Norman-French that had intermingled with the sturdy Saxon breed.
'Honi soit qui mal y pense.' You wanted an answer a minute ago -- there it is for you, my dear, in the choicest
Norman-French."
But the same motive which prevents my writing the dialogue of the piece in Anglo-Saxon or in
Norman-French, and which prohibits my sending forth to the public this essay printed with the types of Caxton or Wynken de Worde, prevents my attempting to confine myself within the limits of the period in which my story is laid.
The aFrasers were a
Norman-French family offered lands around Inverness by a aScottish king.
The only languages permitted in addressing Parliament are English and
Norman-French.
In the original
Norman-French version of the story, Cinderella is wearing slippers made of vair, the word for squirrel fur.
A former mining town in the City of Sunderland, the name Houghtonle-Spring contains the
Norman-French element "le", which also occurs in the name of nearby Hetton-le-Hole.
But don't expect a different outcome - Saxon King Harold will be clutching a hand to his eye again as he is defeated by the
Norman-French army of William the Conqueror in the last time that England was successfully invaded.
Norman-French clerks were sent into the countryside to obtain that information.
Walter composed the treatise during the 1230s to help a neighbor, an English-speaking widow, teach her two children the
Norman-French language.
FISHING GRANT: A fishing grant for Kidwelly, in
Norman-French, dated May 10, 1313.
Members may address the Chamber in
Norman-French or English, but never in Welsh!