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  • More serious (because it looks intentional) is Richardson's "error" in englishing Montegufoni (the castle near Florence that Osbert inherited from his father) as "Hill of the Screech-owls."

    The Pettifogging Pit Brophy, James D. 1979

  • Observing that translate is derived from Latin, and learning that the Elizabethans had another word for it, he will pull us up by englishing his quotations; he will puzzle the general reader by introducing his book with a foreword.

    General. 1908

  • Of the Pilgrimage of Jesus, no englishing is known.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Egerton MS. This prose englishing of the _Sowle_ will be edited for the

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Again, my estimate of a translator's office has never been of the low level generally assigned to it even in the days when Englishmen were in the habit of englishing every important or interesting work published on the continent of

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • This description will perhaps explain to you the ground of one of your own remarks, as I was englishing to you the interesting dialogue concerning the causes of the corruption of eloquence.

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Remits. "is neither an idiomatic nor in any way an adequate englishing of

    A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

  • This MS. leaves out Chaucer’s englishing of Deguilleville’s _ABC_ or

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Besides the Saints’ Lives, Trevisa’s englishing of _Bartholomæus de

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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