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antiquity
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    Bleached structures from antiquity lay like dried bones, em bedded in pulsating cables and thrumming traffic, the arteries of modern life.†  (source)
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    The walls glowed with a warm, dull haze of opulence, a generic mellowness of antiquity; but then it all broke apart into clarity and color and pure Northern light, portraits, interiors, still lifes, some tiny, others majestic: ladies with husbands, ladies with lapdogs, lonely beauties in embroidered gowns and splendid, solitary merchants in jewels and furs.†  (source)
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    All that could be discovered about it in antiquity was put together by Meriadoc Brandybuck (later Master of Buckland), and since he and the tobacco of the Southfarthing play a part in the history that follows, his remarks in the introduction to his Herblore of the Shire may be quoted.†  (source)
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    His behavior in the rooms was remindful of a holy man's search of a cathedral of antiquity—as if he could divine some ancient and also holy intention there.†  (source)
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    I have a feeling Clovis made a great deal of money selling those antiquities.†  (source)
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    Socialism, a theory which appeared in the early nineteenth century and was the last link in a chain of thought stretching back to the slave rebellions of antiquity, was still deeply infected by the Utopianism of past ages.†  (source)
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    He had purchased it for $1.6 million on the Middle Eastern antiquities black market last year.†  (source)
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    Clerval did not like it so well as Oxford, for the antiquity of the latter city was more pleasing to him.†  (source)
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    The government forbade any trafficking in Indian antiquities and had given the priest a general concession, authorizing him to catalogue whatever he found and hand it over to the museum.†  (source)
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    The large front chambers I thought especially grand: and some of the third-storey rooms, though dark and low, were interesting from their air of antiquity.†  (source)
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    In the cluttered darkness of Bolger's Antiquities, Abanazer Bolger looked up suspiciously, certain that someone was watching him, then realized he was being foolish.†  (source)
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    But there was Hester, clad in her gray robe, still standing beside the tree-trunk, which some blast had overthrown a long antiquity ago, and which time had ever since been covering with moss, so that these two fated ones, with earth's heaviest burden on them, might there sit down together, and find a single hour's rest and solace.†  (source)
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    A few months later, the Getty's curator of antiquities, Marion True, wrote a long, glowing account of the museum's acquisition for the art journal The Burlington Magazine.†  (source)
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