How To Use Antiquary In A Sentence
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In all three segments, the Church is the resident to monks–men of antiquary, who live monastic lives preserving memorized knowledge to duplicate them in a time when such actions are more tolerable to the population.
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. – review
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He is commemorated by a gilded bronze effigy in his chapel in St Mary's, Warwick, and an illustrated panegyric by the Warwickshire antiquary John Rous.
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I want to live to excess! cries Balzac's hero, Raphael de Valentin, as he clutches the magic shagreen, or ass's skin, that will prolong his life of dissipation and pleasure, according to the antiquary who gives it to him.
Decadent Writing Of the 19th Century
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We went to an antiquary dealer and set it in a band based on a Roman children's ring.
Jewelry Designer Temple St. Clair
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For my own part, nevertheless, I can not say that this tit-bit was at all an agreeable one in the mouth; however pleasant to the sight of an antiquary, or to the nose of an epicure in nautical fragrancies.
Redburn. His First Voyage
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He was with difficulty appeased, but I saw he never forgot the dead horse, any more than the Antiquary's nephew the "phoca or seal.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
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The antiquary, that is, the hostler of the posthouse at Spoleto, tells you that his town repulsed the victorious enemy, and shows you the gate still called _Porta di
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
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The researches of our late learned antiquary detected in this Walter, the descendant of Allan, the son of
The Monastery
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Daniel Wray is the aforementioned antiquary, a fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries.
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Among the ruins of interest to the antiquary are the remains of Augustinian and
The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway
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[This "fine, fat, fodgel wight" was a clever man, a skilful antiquary, and fond of wit and wine.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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It was a style seldom used by Soane and the Marquess suggested that he should take advice on the ‘various Gothicks’ from the antiquary John Carter.
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The list of finds I have made reads like the contents of an antiquary's cabinet - some archaeological, some geological, some merely curious, all with tales to tell.
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Samir accepted at once, and -- innocently -- became quite attracted to the genial antiquary, with whom he soon found much in common.
KARA KUSH
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But one elaborate argument may be found, by an eminent antiquary (_Archaologia_, nine 292-309), urging that survivors of this company were probably the ancestors of a mysterious group entitled "Waldenses," who appear in the
One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford
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The remainder passed into the hands of an antiquary, who also managed to obtain letters by Horrocks from the Crabtree family.
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These maybe fine things in their way, and, like an antique jewel, they may serve very well to wear on special occasions, or to treasure as an antiquary would do some rare coin or "auld nick-nacket.
Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities
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Park, Thomas (1758/9 – 1834): trained as an engraver, Park became a poet, book-collector, antiquary, bibliographer and editor — not least of Bloomfield's poetry.
Index of People
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Park, Thomas (1758/9 – 1834): trained as an engraver, Park became a poet, book-collector, antiquary, bibliographer and editor — not least of Bloomfield's poetry.
Index of People
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As railways opened, this London-born architect, furniture designer, set designer, antiquary, sailor and polemicist, raced up and down the country building Catholic churches, schools, monasteries and even cathedrals Birmingham, Nottingham and Southwark.
Victorian and Edwardian buildings: examples from the era
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The antiquary, that is, the hostler of the posthouse at Spoleto, tells you that his town repulsed the victorious enemy, and shows you the gate still called _Porta di
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
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I want to live to excess! cries Balzac's hero, Raphael de Valentin, as he clutches the magic shagreen, or ass's skin, that will prolong his life of dissipation and pleasure, according to the antiquary who gives it to him.
Decadent Writing Of the 19th Century
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Issoudun, therefore, according to the researches of this antiquary, like other cities of France whose ancient or modern autonym ends in
The Celibates
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Inside the bank was a circle of fifty-six holes (the Aubrey Holes - so-called after the antiquary who discovered them), which probably held upright posts (some marked by concrete discs).
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I might suggest that, despite the enthusiasm of both writers and critics alike, on various weblogs such as this one, most poetry has all but forfeited its status as an artform at the forefront of innovative expression; instead, poetry has allowed itself to devolve into a quaint subset of artisanal practices, like blacksmithery or cabinetmaking, which do little more than preserve an antiquary skill, long since relegated to an exhibit at your nearest Pioneer Village ….
Writing and Failure (Part 1) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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My dear friend the Barbadian antiquary has given me a thoughtful and useful present.
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None the less, after the Essex rebellion, Elizabeth told the antiquary William Lambarde, with whatever ironic reference, ‘I am Richard II, knowe ye not that?’
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Though Johnson was less of a literary antiquary than some of his contemporaries, he possessed, through his work on the Dictionary, an unsurpassed knowledge of the language of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
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He had been an antiquary and collector, who at one time owned the Wilton Diptych, now in the National Gallery, London, and was also one of the people who refounded the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1717.
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sarrau," in which an antiquary would have recognized the "saye," or the "sayon" of the Gauls, ended at his middle, where it was fastened to two leggings of goatskin by slivers, or thongs of wood, roughly cut, -- some of them still covered with their peel or bark.
The Chouans
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He had been an antiquary and collector, who at one time owned the Wilton Diptych, now in the National Gallery, London, and was also one of the people who refounded the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1717.
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The pleasure of this discourse had such a dulcifying tendency, that, although two causes of delay occurred, each of much more serious duration than that which had drawn down his wrath upon the unlucky Mrs. Macleuchar, our = Antiquary = only bestowed on the delay the honour of a few episodical poohs and pshaws, which rather seemed to regard the interruption of his disquisition than the retardation of his journey.
The Antiquary
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_Antiquary_, the ingenious and abstruse Mr. Jonathan Oldbuck, and the old beadsman Edie Ochiltree, and that preternatural figure of old Edith
The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits
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I love it the better, because it was originally designed for Captain Grose, an excellent antiquary, though, like yourself, somewhat too apt to treat with levity his own pursuits:
The Monastery
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I am afraid the myth was invented in 1754 by the English antiquary William Stukeley.
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So perhaps when the old antiquary, William Stukeley, called these monuments ‘cursuses’, he wasn't quite as mistaken as many archaeologists have liked to believe.
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One may cite in this context the by no means exceptional example of the seventeenth-century antiquary Simonds D' Ewes, who had crammed his notebooks with no less than 2,850 Latin and Greek verses by the time he left grammar school!
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Regular for a fortnight were the inquiries of the Antiquary at the veteran Caxon, whether he had heard what Mr. Lovel was about; and as regular were Caxon's answers, ` ` that the town could learn naething about him whatever, except that he had received anither muckle letter or twa frae the south, and that he was never seen on the plainstanes at a '.' '
The Antiquary
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He had been prompted to do so by the existence of at least one ditch around the hill top, which had been recognised some 200 years earlier by the antiquary William Stukeley.
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Regular for a fortnight were the inquiries of the Antiquary at the veteran Caxon, whether he had heard what Mr. Lovel was about; and as regular were Caxon's answers, "that the town could learn naething about him whatever, except that he had received anither muckle letter or twa frae the south, and that he was never seen on the plainstanes at a '.
The Antiquary — Complete
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An antiquary by inclination, he chairs the county archaeological society which has an active field group and he acts as archaeological advisor for the diocese.
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Mr Ellis was the poetical antiquary and friend of Scott.
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And Ambrose Campany, a cheery-faced, middle-aged man, with booklover and antiquary written all over him, shockheaded, blue-spectacled, was there now, talking to an old man whom Bryce knew as a neighbour of his in Friary
The Paradise Mystery
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The antiquary John Aubrey, writing in the seventeenth century, cited a report that Shakespeare ‘had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country’.
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Christian Pederson, Canon of Lund, whom he compliments as a lover of letters, antiquary, and patriot, and urges to edit and publish "tam divinum latinae eruditionis culmen et splendorem Saxonem nostrum".
The Danish History, Books I-IX
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Our antiquary writes like one unacquainted with his subject; no man, I believe, ever talked _of charging_ a gun with a _tampion_; neither would the said _tampion_ (consisting of a piece of hard oak) have done much less mischief than a stone, if pointed from the Thames at the Queen's
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1
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The antiquary William Camden was the first to divide surnames into the categories broadly represented in all European languages.
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'"merchet of women" also, but as an antiquary I must tell ye that it's not what you two young men would wish it to be ----'
Border Ghost Stories
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John Aubrey, the antiquary, who "perambulated" Surrey in
Highways and Byways in Surrey
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In Bradford, Yorkshire the eighteenth-century antiquary John Hartley recounted a Martinmas payment ritual associated with the slaying of a huge, ravenous wild boar and the rival claims of two hunters to having performed the feat.
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Any historical work that doesn’t cite original sources, e.g. states that Henri de Blois wrote something in 1141 without saying how we know – is there an original MS, if so where it is it, or are we relying on someone else quoting a MS which is lost, or did some 19th-century antiquary make it up?
Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs