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  • I, like you, believe that our modern dogs are descended from the wolves of antiquity, perhaps one hundred thousand years past.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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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  • Perhaps it's because I'm not impressed by antiquity.†  (source)
  • Real estate ....currency ....Vatican Bank ....antiquities ....The list went on.†  (source)
  • Now we are in the Athens of antiquity, Sophie.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • It's a BUD/S thing, and its origins are lost in antiquity.†  (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)
  • A legacy of tradition and heroism that stretched back to antiquity had fallen upon him.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • And it was this man, whose name is lost to antiquity, who mentioned Buttercup to the Count.†  (source)
  • I have a feeling Clovis made a great deal of money selling those antiquities.†  (source)
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