Answer:
Although Emma hadn’t been studying Italian long
Explanation:
Subordinate conjunction 'Although'
I think it’s c. less than one month
Answer:
She developed hand gestures, to me it was almost a simpler version of sign language.
Explanation:
By age 7, Keller had developed nearly 60 hand gestures to communicate with her parents and ask for things. However, she was often frustrated by her inability to express herself. With the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan, Keller learned the manual alphabet and could communicate by finger spelling.
Answer:
"...Princess Matilda, though a daughter of the King of Scotland, and afterwards both Queen of England. niece to Edgar Atheling, and mother to the Empress of Germany, the daughter, the wife, and the mother of monarchs, was obliged, during her early residence for education in England, to assure the veil of a nun, as the only means of escaping the licentious pursuit of the Norman nobles. "
It was a matter of public knowledge, they said, that after the conquest of King William, his Norman followers, elated by so great a victory, acknowledged no law but their own wicked pleasure, and not only despoiled the conquered Saxons of their lands and their goods, but invaded the honor of their wives and of their daughters with the most unbridled license.
Explanation:
Two historical characters, Princess Matilda and King William, are mentioned and described in these two lines. Ivanhoe seems to be a work of historical fiction based on these two phrases.
