J. R. Green
Cited as J. R. Green. — 23 quotations
Appreciation
His foreboding showed his appreciation of Henry's character.
Aptness
The aptness of his quotations.
Attain
Few boroughs had as yet attained to power such as this.
Attitude
The attitude of the country was rapidly changing.
Bordar
The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm.
Commune
In this struggle -- to use the technical words of the time -- of the “commune”, the general mass of the inhabitants, against the “prudhommes” or “wiser” few.
Cow
THe French king was cowed.
Craft
The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds.
Doom
The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
draw
And the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee.
Fluidity
It was this want of organization, this looseness and fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate through every class of society.
Folk
The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war.
Fyrd
The national fyrd or militia.
On
We see the strength of the new movement in the new class of ecclesiastics whom it forced on to the stage.
Penetrate
Preparing to penetrate to the north and west.
Pungent
His pungent pen played its part in rousing the nation.
Rabble
The bishops' carriages were stopped and the prelates themselves rabbled on their way to the house.
Scriptorium
Writing rooms, or scriptoria, where the chief works of Latin literature . . . were copied and illuminated.
Sonless
As no baron who was sonless could give a husband to his daughter, save with his lord's consent.
Swamp
The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers.
Upgrowth
The new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy.
Wake
Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.
Wreck
Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.