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ancient times; or a relic of ancient times- All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity...Joseph Addison
- There are long passages now before us of the most despicable trash, with no merit whatever beyond that of their antiquity.The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 5 of the Raven Edition) -- http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/P/PoeEdgarAllan/prose/raven_5/oldenglishpoetry.html (retrieved 01/01/00)
- I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.Confucius
- History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.Cicero
- These fables, indeed, were among the first writings of an earlier antiquity that attracted attention.http://www.yankeeweb.com/library/storytime/fables/fables_54.html (retrieved 01/01/00)
- A queer moral to derive from antiquity, yet older than any traceable antiquity.Dickens, Charles -- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- In that granite book, begun by the Orient, continued by Greek and Roman antiquity, the Middle Ages wrote the last page.Hugo, Victor -- Notre-Dame de Paris
- I account that man more honorable than that great captain of antiquity who boasted of taking as many walled towns.Melville, Herman -- Moby Dick I-LXVII
- From the remotest period of antiquity to which the archives have reference, the hours have been regularly struck by the big bell.Poe, Edgar Allan -- The Devil in the Belfry
- Each of the great nations of antiquity had a great leader.
- Only the stately phraseology and the measured speech of the sons of the Prophet are suited to a venerable antiquity like this.Twain, Mark -- The Innocents Abroad
- "I am not so concerned about the monetary value of the statue as I am about its antiquity," went on Professor Bumper.Appleton, Victor -- Tom Swift In The Land Of Wonders
- Come then, and from thy vast, luxuriant stores, in long antiquity piled up, pour forth the rich profusion.Fielding, Henry -- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- From the hallowed hills of sacred Sinai, in the days of remote antiquity, came the law which has been our bulwark and our shield.Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
- The appeal to Antiquity is fatal to us who are romanticists.Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Sounding Mr. Cruncher, and finding him of her opinion, Miss Pross resorted to the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, attended by her cavalier.Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- In antiquity, Gao Xin, a kind and benevolent Han emperor, was under attack by an evil and ambitious general.Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- He had read all the literature of antiquity and forgotten all about it except a general aroma of charm and disillusion.Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Like most other examples of "bad grammar" encountered in American the compound negative is of great antiquity and was once quite respectable.Henry L. Mencken -- The American Language
- Clerval did not like it so well as Oxford, for the antiquity of the latter city was more pleasing to him.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein