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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
Clerval did not like it so well as Oxford, for the antiquity of the latter city was more pleasing to him.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
Reading Greek mythology had left him, he told me, with a sense of the antiquity of murder and mayhem, but no real explanations.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains

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