ancients

How To Use ancients In A Sentence

• During her studies she worked with the British Museum examining the paints used on the sarcophagus of an Egyptian mummy to find out how the ancients had created a new colour.
• The team is largely staffed with ancients and has-beens.
• As to the pay of the Mercenaries it nearly filled two esparto-grass baskets; there were even visible in one of them some of the leathern discs which the Republic used to economise its specie; and as the Barbarians appeared greatly surprised, Hanno told them that, their accounts being very difficult, the Ancients had not had leisure to examine them. Salammbo
• The ancients built stone circles to greet the first rays of the solstice. Times, Sunday Times
• These Ancients, more ancient than ours but still not literally ancient, saw the world not as a giant clockwork but as an organism.
• One such bod was commenting that he thought that the ancients had erected Pentre Ifan because it was aesthetically pleasing and fitted in with the surrounding landscape.
• The ancients told those stories around the camp fires and those stories grew by the flame enkindled in the hearer's hearts; transforming them into story tellers too. Happy Valentines Day, -XOX, The New Body of Christ:
• You know 1/6 of his writingsNewton wrote a tremendous amountwas caught up in alchemical knowledge in one way or the other and he believed that there were secrets to be uncovered, that the ancients had this great knowledge. A Conversation with Rebecca Stott about The Coral Thief
• This was an early example of what the ancients called akrasia, or weakness of will, where we find ourselves doing what we know we shouldn't.
• Where we would say "testifies," the ancients in epistolary communications use the past tense. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible