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  • It's a BUD/S thing, and its origins are lost in antiquity.†   (source)
  • The Commercial Daily, our traditional newspaper, tried to save our civic honor with an erudite and rather confused essay concerning the antiquity and cultural influence of the Chinese in the Caribbean, and the right they had earned to participate in Poetic Festivals.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • His lips were swollen and very red, like those of heroes and gods of antiquity.†   (source)
  • When a human being is fed upon and consumed by one of them, especially in Africa, the event is telescoped against horizons of space and time, and takes on a feeling of immense antiquity.†   (source)
  • Fistulas have been described since antiquity.†   (source)
  • The little building had been standing for more than a century, and seasonal changes provoked different symptoms of its antiquity: winter cold saturated the stone-and-iron fixtures, and in summer, when temperatures often hurtled over the hundred mark, the old cells were malodorous cauldrons.†   (source)
  • And it was this man, whose name is lost to antiquity, who mentioned Buttercup to the Count.†   (source)
  • He reads the phrase "Equal Justice Under Law" and tries to make out the characters carved just above it, a row of squatting, deliberating white men from some period of antiquity or otherGreek, maybe, he thinks-but muscular, like black men.†   (source)
  • THE DUENA ALFONSA was both grandaunt and godmother to the girl and her life at the hacienda invested it with oldworld ties and with antiquity and tradition.†   (source)
  • He imagined a fragment of chalked pavement cut clean and lifted out and elaborately packed—shipped to some museum in California where it would share the hushed sunlight with marble carvings from antiquity.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • "It has been the will of Heaven," the essay began, "that we should be thrown into existence at a period when the greatest philosophers and lawgivers of antiquity would have wished to live...a period when a coincidence of circumstances without example has afforded to thirteen colonies at once an opportunity of beginning government anew from the foundation and building as they choose.†   (source)
  • He emanated the aura of such advanced age that one could suppose he might have predated the great Mesopotamian cities of antiquity, the Chinese Empire, and several of the lesser mountain ranges like the Andes and the Alps (being merely a contemporary of the Himalayas).†   (source)
  • Taxila's position, at the confluence of the East-West trade routes that would become the Grand Trunk Road, at the spot where it bisected the Silk Road from China, shimmering down switchbacks from the Himalaya, had been one of the strategic hubs of antiquity.†   (source)
  • Despite the crowded tables on the main level, the atmosphere was quiet and this reverential hush—even more than the space's grandeur—reinforced the impression that one was in a holy setting, a temple of sacred antiquity.†   (source)
  • It's all a ghost, and in antiquity was so recognized as a ghost, the whole blessed world we live in.†   (source)
  • Reading Greek mythology had left him, he told me, with a sense of the antiquity of murder and mayhem, but no real explanations.†   (source)
  • But from antiquity to modern times, there are many stories of female warriors, of Amazons.†   (source)
  • In antiquity, Gao Xin, a kind and benevolent Han emperor, was under attack by an evil and ambitious general.†   (source)
  • It's so abstract, so contemporary, and a really creative contrast against the antiquity.†   (source)
  • But, to their glory, they do not suffer from blind devotion for antiquity or custom.†   (source)
  • NAVOT LAID A PHOTOGRAPH ON the table, a street in Beirut littered with the ancient debris of an antiquities gallery.†   (source)
  • The image moved me because of its antiquity and durability, but the description on the card moved me also because it gave a name and credence to that which I see myself as having been engaged upon for the past three decades: "Votive panel", the identification card said, "possibly set up to Orpheus by local poet.†   (source)
  • But there hasn't been much antiquity, are you?†   (source)
  • I would be leaving Charleston soon, I thought, leaving the city of the two rivers, which had imparted a passionate sense of aesthetics within me, which had given me a love of antiquity and cloistered gardens.†   (source)
  • From the hallowed hills of sacred Sinai, in the days of remote antiquity, came the law which has been our bulwark and our shield.†   (source)
  • Proves its antiquity.†   (source)
  • First to take colour were the tops of the eucalyptus: great two-hundred-foot relics of the forests of antiquity, their trunks skeleton white, their oil-laden leaves already twisting edge-on to dodge the shrivelling rays of the sun.†   (source)
  • The whole picture is in the spirit of antiquity-the elements obeying the magician, great jostling multitudes like Roman armies on the march, a people and a leader.†   (source)
  • There are long passages now before us of the most despicable trash, with no merit whatever beyond that of their antiquity.   (source)
  • 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...   (source)
  • He had purchased it for $1.6 million on the Middle Eastern antiquities black market last year.†   (source)
  • Here reside the writings of our greatest kings and scholars, from antiquity to the present.†   (source)
  • Empirical science was known in antiquity, but systematic experiments were something quite new.†   (source)
  • "He doesn't pee on the antiquities?" he inquired, nodding at Popchik.†   (source)
  • Antiquity had its great system-constructors in Plato and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • Antiquity's philosophy and science were purely theoretical in purpose.†   (source)
  • Records from antiquity refer to 170 titles supposedly written by Aristotle.†   (source)
  • Antiquity is like the childhood of Europe.†   (source)
  • That is precisely why we speak of a 'rebirth' of antiquity's humanism.†   (source)
  • Rome had over a million inhabitants in antiquity.†   (source)
  • 'Go to the source' was the motto, and that meant the humanism of antiquity first and foremost.†   (source)
  • The three diverging streams from antiquity joined into one great river.†   (source)
  • The Manichaeans were a religious sect that was extremely characteristic of late antiquity.†   (source)
  • Late Antiquity was generally characterized by religious doubts, cultural dissolution, and pessimism.†   (source)
  • There were no videos in antiquity ...so could this be a movie?†   (source)
  • did indeed, and that which was to be reborn was the art and culture of antiquity.†   (source)
  • In antiquity's slave society, the conflict was between free citizen and slave.†   (source)
  • This was the beginning of the Roman period, which we often refer to as Late Antiquity.†   (source)
  • She put down her book about God in antiquity.†   (source)
  • I have a feeling Clovis made a great deal of money selling those antiquities.†   (source)
  • Similar examples might be found in most, if not all, the popular governments of antiquity.†   (source)
  • Or the antiquities gallery that blew up in your face in St. Moritz?†   (source)
  • Why are you so interested in the religion of antiquity?†   (source)
  • "I always considered scientific opinion more objective than esthetic judgments," the Getty's curator of antiquities Marion True said when the truth about the kouros finally emerged.†   (source)
  • Another trick—calculated to lure a different, more sophisticated customer — was to bury a piece in the back of the store, reverse the vacuum cleaner over it (instant antiquity!)†   (source)
  • that I sat dumbfounded among the Chinese antiquities and Greek vases, wanting to say something clever while at the same time terrified of attracting attention in any way, feeling tongue-tied and completely at sea.†   (source)
  • Every few years, there seemed to be another news article about the missing masterworks, which along with my Goldfinch and two loaned van der Asts also included some valuable Medieval pieces and a number of Egyptian antiquities; scholars had written papers, there had even been books; it was mentioned as one of the Ten Top Art Crimes on the FBI's website; previously, I'd taken great comfort in the fact that most people assumed that whoever had made off with the van der Asts from Galleries 29 and 30 had stolen my painting, too.†   (source)
  • However, his principal leanings were toward the other significant philosophy of late antiquity, Neoplatonism.†   (source)
  • In this one person's life we can observe the actual transition from late antiquity to the Early Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • About the same time, Marx had written a doctoral thesis on Democritus and Epicurus—in other words, on the materialism of antiquity.†   (source)
  • You cannot single out particular thoughts from antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, or the Enlightenment and say they were right or wrong.†   (source)
  • We are about to step out of antiquity.†   (source)
  • Like the humanists of antiquity—such as Socrates and the Stoics—most of the Enlightenment philosophers had an unshakable faith in human reason.†   (source)
  • They became intensely conscious of their epoch, which is what led them to introduce the term 'Middle Ages' to cover the centuries between antiquity and their own time.†   (source)
  • This was also a new idea, seen from the Greek humanistic point of view; the humanists of antiquity had emphasized the importance of tranquility, moderation, and restraint.†   (source)
  • What has driven historical development from the slave society of antiquity to the industrial society of today has primarily been determined by changes in the base of society.†   (source)
  • He was not a philosophical materialist like the atomists of antiquity nor did he advocate the mechanical materialism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.†   (source)
  • The Dark Ages, as they were also called, were seen then as one interminable thousand-year-long night which had settled over Europe between antiquity and the Renaissance.†   (source)
  • Since antiquity, one of the central arguments against the earth moving round its own axis was that the earth would then move so quickly that a stone hurled straight into the air would fall yards away from the spot it was hurled from.†   (source)
  • No true dragons had existed for a thousand years, and even those comparatively meager specimens were more like spiny serpents and scaly bats than the godlike creatures of antiquity.†   (source)
  • She went to the hospital to see Jack Marshall, who was recovering from heart surgery, and she went with Esther, who thought that a hospital visit was a thing out of pharaonic antiquity, where you fixed your face and arrayed yourself sedately and you carried books, puzzles and flowers and brought along a priest to utter certain phrases.†   (source)
  • His kind of rationality has been used since antiquity to remove oneself from the tedium and depression of one's immediate surroundings.†   (source)
  • goes back to antiquity.†   (source)
  • He's a Lebanese antiquities dealer.†   (source)
  • She had been sitting on her balcony and had finished reading her book about the idea of God in antiquity, listening all the while to Blomkvist's snores from the bedroom.†   (source)
  • "Paris," said the antiquities dealer.†   (source)
  • Because the word on the street was that the gentleman from Syria was using the sale of looted antiquities to raise money for the Islamic State.†   (source)
  • Lately, he'd been keeping an eye on ISIS's involvement in the illicit antiquities trade, which is why he requested a crash meeting the day after the bomb exploded in Paris.†   (source)
  • Mikhail made his way to the farthest corner of the rooftop, where Clovis Mansour, scion of the Mansour antiquities-dealing dynasty, sat alone on a white couch facing the Mediterranean.†   (source)
  • He was David Rostov, an itinerant businessman of Russian-Canadian descent who acquired illicit antiquities in the Middle East for a largely European clientele.†   (source)
  • Apparently, he rolled into town with a truckload of antiquities to sell—Greek, Roman, Persian, all highquality, many bearing the telltale signs of recent excavation.†   (source)
  • 'A place of no pretensions, but a piece of antiquity.'†   (source)
  • He always spoke of him as an object of great antiquity, but he was two or three years younger than himself.†   (source)
  • 'I am sure,' giggled Flora, tossing her head with a caricature of her girlish manner, such as a mummer might have presented at her own funeral, if she had lived and died in classical antiquity, 'I am ashamed to see Mr Clennam, I am a mere fright, I know he'll find me fearfully changed, I am actually an old woman, it's shocking to be found out, it's really shocking!'†   (source)
  • Up, then, would come Mrs General; taking all the colour out of everything, as Nature and Art had taken it out of herself; writing Prunes and Prism, in Mr Eustace's text, wherever she could lay a hand; looking everywhere for Mr Eustace and company, and seeing nothing else; scratching up the driest little bones of antiquity, and bolting them whole without any human visitings—like a Ghoule in gloves.†   (source)
  • There were antiquities from Central Italy, made by the best modern houses in that department of industry; bits of mummy from Egypt (and perhaps Birmingham); model gondolas from Venice; model villages from Switzerland; morsels of tesselated pavement from Herculaneum and Pompeii, like petrified minced veal; ashes out of tombs, and lava out of Vesuvius; Spanish fans, Spezzian straw hats, Moorish slippers, Tuscan hairpins, Carrara sculpture, Trastaverini scarves, Genoese velvets and filigree, Neapolitan coral, Roman cameos, Geneva jewellery, Arab lanterns, rosaries blest all round by the Pope himself, and an infinite variety of lumber.†   (source)
  • I get more value for my money in old brandy than in any other antiquities†   (source)
  • There was in Isleta a parrot skull of great antiquity.†   (source)
  • Blanche: These are love-letters, yellowing with antiquity, all from one boy.†   (source)
  • The warrior-kings of antiquity regarded their work in the spirit of the monster-slayer.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • He had told her that he thought of spending some months in our town to avail himself of the libraries and to see its antiquities.†   (source)
  • The Buddha beneath the Tree of Enlightenment (the Bo Tree) and Christ on Holy Rood (the Tree of Redemption) are analogous figures, incorporating an archetypal World Savior, World Tree motif, which is of immemorial antiquity.†   (source)
  • So if this collection of people has nothing in common with what would have brought up the back of a Xerxes' army or a Constantine's, new things have been formed; but what struck me in them was a feeling of antiquity and thick crust.†   (source)
  • That makes me, I should think, a unique specimen in your museum of antiquities—the other three who arrived along with me don't enter the category.†   (source)
  • He had read all the literature of antiquity and forgotten all about it except a general aroma of charm and disillusion.†   (source)
  • Got many antiquities†   (source)
  • "Culebras," said she, in that voice that was like a haywisp of antiquity, it was always so thin and distant.†   (source)
  • Only from afar and by degrees the suspicion dawns here and there that all this is perhaps a cheap and superficial esthetic philosophy, and that we make a mistake in attributing to our great dramatists those magnificent conceptions of beauty that come to us from antiquity.†   (source)
  • He could have become a circus manager, a theatrical director, a dealer in antiquities, an importer of Italian silks, a secretary in the Palace or the Cathedral, a dealer in provisions for the army, a speculator in houses and farms, a merchant in dissipations and pleasures.†   (source)
  • Beside the river was a grove of tall, naked cottonwoods—trees of great antiquity and enormous size—so large that they seemed to belong to a bygone age.†   (source)
  • This mesa plain had an appearance of great antiquity, and of incompleteness; as if, with all the materials for world-making assembled, the Creator had desisted, gone away and left everything on the point of being brought together, on the eve of being arranged into mountain, plain, plateau.†   (source)
  • The appeal to Antiquity is fatal to us who are romanticists.†   (source)
  • My mind opened naturally and joyously to a conception of antiquity.†   (source)
  • Antiquity was capitalist because it idolized the state.†   (source)
  • As for grapes, they are of the greatest antiquity.†   (source)
  • Its principal feature seemed to be that of an excessive antiquity.†   (source)
  • [Footnote t: "New Haven Antiquities," p. 104†   (source)
  • Another resident of these seas caught my attention and revived all my memories of antiquity.†   (source)
  • For my own part, I blame that last justice, the blade; but, antiquity admitted it.†   (source)
  • He commenced by alluding to the antiquity and renown of his own nation.†   (source)
  • I stood mute before this apparition of remote antiquity.†   (source)
  • We should be as good as the worthies of antiquity, but partly by first knowing how good they were.†   (source)
  • Everything seemed dreary: the portents before the birth of Cyrus—Jewish antiquities—oh dear!†   (source)
  • The King's School at Tercanbury, to which Philip went when he was thirteen, prided itself on its antiquity.†   (source)
  • The dull-green cottage of the good Widow Bogart was twenty years old, but it had the antiquity of Cheops, and the smell of mummy-dust.†   (source)
  • If flesh of the sun's flesh is to be touched anywhere, it is here, among the incredible antiquity of these hills.†   (source)
  • Some apparent ground there was for this sort of confidential criticism; since not only did the Captain's discourse never fall into the jocosely familiar, but in illustrating of any point touching the stirring personages and events of the time he would be as apt to cite some historic character or incident of antiquity as that he would cite from the moderns.†   (source)
  • I knew Mr. Anagnos's great love of antiquity and his enthusiastic appreciation of all beautiful sentiments about Italy and Greece.†   (source)
  • All this sylvan antiquity, however, though visible from The Slopes, was outside the immediate boundaries of the estate.†   (source)
  • And all of them were so old that you could see, here and there, their silvery antiquity sparkling with the dust of centuries and shewing in its threadbare brilliance the very cords of their lovely tapestry of glass.†   (source)
  • Antiquity was not always classic.†   (source)
  • But Winnemac is Midwestern in its fields of corn and wheat, its red barns and silos, and, despite the immense antiquity of Zenith, many counties were not settled till 1860.†   (source)
  • She had said she lived over the way at Old-Grove Place, a house which he soon discovered from her description of its antiquity.†   (source)
  • They flanked opposite ends of the house and were probably architectural absurdities, redeemed in a measure indeed by not being wholly disengaged nor of a height too pretentious, dating, in their gingerbread antiquity, from a romantic revival that was already a respectable past.†   (source)
  • I handled this amazing antiquity with the greatest possible tenderness, lest it should dissolve in my hands.†   (source)
  • Everybody laughed at these antiquities —but then they always do; I had noticed that, centuries later.†   (source)
  • I have, too, this grand hobby in my head of writing 'The Roman Antiquities of Wessex,' which will occupy all my spare hours.†   (source)
  • An outlying eastern tract of the enormous Egdon Waste was close at hand, yet on the very verge of that tawny piece of antiquity such a glittering novelty as this pleasure city had chosen to spring up.†   (source)
  • And in the same breath, as if to cancel any beauty his words might have contained, he added, "But did you have time to visit any of the interesting Marabar antiquities?"†   (source)
  • And my grandmother had bought them in preference to other books, just as she would have preferred to take a house that had a gothic dovecot, or some other such piece of antiquity as would have a pleasant effect on the mind, filling it with a nostalgic longing for impossible journeys through the realms of time.†   (source)
  • Down below, by the harbour, the little stone houses of a past century were clustered in a delightful confusion, and the narrow streets, climbing down steeply, had an air of antiquity which appealed to the imagination.†   (source)
  • They say "Go up, baldhead" to the prophet going his unoffending way in the gray of antiquity; they sass me in the holy gloom of the Middle Ages; and I had seen them act the same way in Buchanan's administration; I remember, because I was there and helped.†   (source)
  • Because you were well aware that no new art could come from your own proletarian souls and hoped to defeat antiquity with its own weapons.†   (source)
  • IV Phillotson was sitting up late, as was often his custom, trying to get together the materials for his long-neglected hobby of Roman antiquities.†   (source)
  • Her slippers and her antiquity had rendered her progress a noiseless one so far, and she made for instant retreat; then, deeming that her hearing might have deceived her, she turned anew to the door and softly tried the handle.†   (source)
  • As he talked along, softly, pleasantly, flowingly, he seemed to drift away imperceptibly out of this world and time, and into some remote era and old forgotten country; and so he gradually wove such a spell about me that I seemed to move among the specters and shadows and dust and mold of a gray antiquity, holding speech with a relic of it!†   (source)
  • Your repristination of antiquity's cult of the state surely makes you a champion of a positive interpretation of law, and as such—†   (source)
  • All the furniture being fixed, the books shelved, and the nails driven, he had begun to sit in his parlour during the dark winter nights and re-attempt some of his old studies—one branch of which had included Roman-Britannic antiquities—an unremunerative labour for a national school-master but a subject, that, after his abandonment of the university scheme, had interested him as being a comparatively unworked mine; practicable to those who, like himself, had lived in lonely spots where these remains were abundant, and were seen to compel inferences in startling contrast to accepted views on the civilization of that time.†   (source)
  • Wine—the gods' gift to man, as the humanistic peoples of antiquity claimed, the philanthropic invention of a god who is in fact associated with civilization, if I may be permitted the allusion.†   (source)
  • In denying what you call marketeering, the world of money and finance, which antiquity valued much more than farming and handicrafts, it also denies freedom.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the teachers of the early Church had never wearied of warning people against the lies of the philosophers and poets of antiquity, and in particular against sullying themselves with the lush eloquence of a Virgil.†   (source)
  • And Dr. Krokowski had spoken about one fungus, famous since classical antiquity for its form and the powers ascribed to it—a morel, its Latin name ending in the adjective impudicus, its form reminiscent of love, and its odor, of death.†   (source)
  • It was in Greece that Settembrini's father had first seen the light of the world—which probably explained why he was such a great humanist and lover of classical antiquity—born, by the way, of a mother with German blood, a girl whom Giuseppe had married in Switzerland and taken along with him throughout the course of his adventures.†   (source)
  • For he had been a monkey, moon, and soul god—a baboon with a crescent moon above his head and above all, under the name of Hermes, a god of death and the dead, a grabber and guide of souls, who by late antiquity had become a great sorcerer and served the cabalistic Middle Ages; as the father of hermetic alchemy.†   (source)
  • He took the boys to the British Museum and descanted upon the antiquities and the specimens of natural history there, so that audiences would gather round him as he spoke, and all Bloomsbury highly admired him as a prodigiously well-informed man.†   (source)
  • One picture, only one more, because it's so curious, so characteristic, and I have only just read it in some collection of Russian antiquities.†   (source)
  • All the great writers of antiquity belonged to the aristocracy of masters, or at least they saw that aristocracy established and uncontested before their eyes.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Rouncewell holds this opinion because she considers that a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost.†   (source)
  • The window, being screened from general observation by the bushes, had been left unblinded, so that a person in this private nook could see all that was going on within the room which contained the wedding-guests, except in so far as vision was hindered by the green antiquity of the panes.†   (source)
  • Sounding Mr. Cruncher, and finding him of her opinion, Miss Pross resorted to the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, attended by her cavalier.†   (source)
  • In that granite book, begun by the Orient, continued by Greek and Roman antiquity, the Middle Ages wrote the last page.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, I remember, I resigned myself to thoughts of home and Peggotty; and to endeavouring, in a confused blind way, to recall how I had felt, and what sort of boy I used to be, before I bit Mr. Murdstone: which I couldn't satisfy myself about by any means, I seemed to have bitten him in such a remote antiquity.†   (source)
  • By a contrivance now common, and indeed traceable to a very remote period of antiquity, they were made changeable in aspect.†   (source)
  • This latter personage took upon himself the office of tapster when the punch was ready, and after dispensing it all round, led the conversation to the antiquities of York, with which both he and the grey-haired gentleman appeared to be well acquainted.†   (source)
  • But, as my great grandfather will tell you, it would not be quite a straightforward job; for there are wonderful collections in there of all kinds of antiquities, besides an enormous library with many exceedingly beautiful books in it, and many most useful ones as genuine records, texts of ancient works and the like; and the worry and anxiety, and even risk, there would be in moving all this has saved the buildings themselves.†   (source)
  • It not only emulated the form of the neighbouring church of the parish, but vied with it in antiquity.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He made the grand tour of Europe, travelled in considerable splendour, and (as was to have been expected in a man of his high cultivation) found so much in art and antiquity to interest him, that he remained abroad, not for six months, but for twelve.†   (source)
  • The difference between an officer's consort and a guide's woman is as vast as that between the antiquity of Scotland and the antiquity of America.†   (source)
  • The porter at the hotel could speak German and English; but the Professor, as a polyglot, questioned him in good Danish, and it was in the same language that that personage directed him to the Museum of Northern Antiquities.†   (source)
  • The thistle is the order for dignity and antiquity; the veritable 'nemo me impune lacessit' of chivalry.†   (source)
  • I account that man more honourable than that great captain of antiquity who boasted of taking as many walled towns.†   (source)
  • , laughing; "the greatest captains of antiquity amused themselves by casting pebbles into the ocean—see Plutarch's life of Scipio Africanus."†   (source)
  • Nor must we forget to mention a hen-coop of very reverend antiquity that stood in the farther corner of the garden, not a great way from the fountain.†   (source)
  • "Waxen dolls!" interrupted Obed; "it is profanation, in the view of the arts, to liken the miserable handy-work of the dealers in wax to the pure models of antiquity!"†   (source)
  • Her family, on each side, is of fabulous antiquity; her mother is the daughter of an English Catholic earl.†   (source)
  • But there are very valuable books about antiquities which were written a long while ago by scholars who knew nothing about these modern things; and they are still used.†   (source)
  • It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as the hand was divided into fingers, the better to answer its end.†   (source)
  • The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.†   (source)
  • The day was cool and rather lustreless; the first note of autumn had been struck, and the watery sunshine rested on the walls in blurred and desultory gleams, washing them, as it were, in places tenderly chosen, where the ache of antiquity was keenest.†   (source)
  • He had, or thought that he had, a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor, which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity.†   (source)
  • The crew glide to and fro like the ghosts of buried centuries; their eyes have an eager and uneasy meaning; and when their fingers fall athwart my path in the wild glare of the battle-lanterns, I feel as I have never felt before, although I have been all my life a dealer in antiquities, and have imbibed the shadows of fallen columns at Balbec, and Tadmor, and Persepolis, until my very soul has become a ruin.†   (source)
  • In order to give his language the appearance of antiquity, he rejected every word that was modern, and produced a dialect entirely different from any that had ever been spoken in Great Britain.†   (source)
  • Clerval did not like it so well as Oxford, for the antiquity of the latter city was more pleasing to him.†   (source)
  • Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.†   (source)
  • Zdrzhinski, the officer with the long mustache, spoke grandiloquently of the Saltanov dam being "a Russian Thermopylae," and of how a deed worthy of antiquity had been performed by General Raevski.†   (source)
  • What was called the People in the most democratic republics of antiquity, was very unlike what we designate by that term.†   (source)
  • The chicken, hereupon, though almost as venerable in appearance as its mother—possessing, indeed, the whole antiquity of its progenitors in miniature,—mustered vivacity enough to flutter upward and alight on Phoebe's shoulder.†   (source)
  • The outer walls have probably been added by the Normans, but the inner keep bears token of very great antiquity.†   (source)
  • For according to King Juba, the military elephants of antiquity often hailed the morning with their trunks uplifted in the profoundest silence.†   (source)
  • One of the frenzied aspirations of the populace was, for imitations of the questionable public virtues of antiquity, and for sacrifices and self-immolations on the people's altar.†   (source)
  • The manor-house of Ferndean was a building of considerable antiquity, moderate size, and no architectural pretensions, deep buried in a wood.†   (source)
  • A democracy, more perfect than any which antiquity had dreamt of, started in full size and panoply from the midst of an ancient feudal society.†   (source)
  • The house, with all its crumbling antiquity and apparent misery, was yet cheerful and picturesque, and was the same that old Dantes formerly inhabited—the only difference being that the old man occupied merely the garret, while the whole house was now placed at the command of Mercedes by the count.†   (source)
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