ostler造句
1, It seems that the Ostler Press is also interested.
2, Grooms and ostlers were already in the yard.
3, A red-nosed ostler took their horses.
4, Grooms and ostlers furnished us with horses for our journey.
5, Horses rearing and neighing, as ostlers and stable-boys tried to calm them down and lead them away.
6, The cries of ostlers, grooms, outriders, serjeants and clerks rang out.
7, Yet another story tells of a young ostler who worked at the inn.
8, An ostler took the cavalryman's horse while a liveried footman relieved him of his helmet and cumbersome sword.
9, Mr Ostler plunges happily into his tales from ancient history.
10, Yet Ostler takes the view that by around 2050 no global lingua franca will be needed.
11, Ostler gives an account of the fluctuating fortunes of other major world languages.
12, Mr Ostler is surely right about the nationalist limits to the spread of English as a mother-tongue.
13, But Nicholas Ostler, a scholar of the rise and fall of languages, makes a surprising prediction in his latest book: the days of English as the world's lingua-franca may be numbered.
14, Mr Ostler writes that while Mandarin could be used more in trade between China and Africa, there is no record of a language becoming a lingua franca without first being that of an empire.
15, Mr Ostler suggests that two new factors—modern nationalism and technology—will check the spread of English.
16, Where Tim the ostler listened. His face was and peaked.
17, It seems sometimes that Mr Ostler, fascinated by ancient uses of language, wanted to write a different sort of book but was persuaded by his publisher to play up the English angle.
18, A linguist of astonishing voracity, Mr Ostler plunges happily into his tales from ancient history.
19, Carts full of precious belongings were being unloaded in the courtyards; ostlers, grooms and farriers shouted and yelled.
20, Rather, English will have no successor because none will be needed. Technology, Mr Ostler believes, will fill the need.
21, In 100AD, a Greek speaker could travel from Spain to the Hindu Kush, finding people who spoke his language all along the way, Nicholas Ostler writes in The Last Lingua Franca.