Example Sentences

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What next, he wondered: pre-Newtonian science perhaps, or pre-Chaucerian verse?

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2010

To this pre-Chaucerian period belong also several English translations of French romances—Horn, Tristrem, Alisaunder, Havelok, and others.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

Our highlander often speaks in Elizabethan or Chaucerian or even pre-Chaucerian terms.

From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace