How To Use Antique In A Sentence

There are some trademark pieces - elegant-legged tables and high-quality marquetry - mixed in with contemporary designer furniture, antique shop finds and some very in-your-face art.
The oak is hand stained with red, yellow, blue and green and then given an antique finish.
The flame was glorious - radiant with the colours of antique knighthood and the flashing gallantries of the past; but no substance fed it; flaring wildly, it tossed to and fro in the wind; it was suddenly put out.
The Treasury offers antiques, collectibles and a small inventory of contemporary items.
At the moment when she makes her entrance into this history which we are relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible to see. Les Miserables

He is a dealer in antique.
Also off the hallway is a sitting room with an antique reproduction fireplace.
It is called la table des Grands Capitaines, and the porcelain top features great military commanders, represented here in a stunning imitation of antique calcedony cameos. French Porcelain
Even a washboard is not a very likely find other than in an antique shop. Where can I buy a pila in the US
Duncan knows so little about the antiques game that he doesn't even suss out alternative routes, different fences. THE TARTAN RINGERS
Oliver made a fortune by investing in antique furniture.
Behind him an antique grandfather clock slowly ticks away. Times, Sunday Times
The room seemed very well kept and there was an antique desk in the corner that was piled with papers and documents.
It was a magnificent old mansion, filled with magnificent antiques. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness
This antique elmwood dresser with petite brass hardware is unfussy and beautiful. Apartment Therapy Main
Other potential sources of lead include fishing-line weights, metal weights in curtains, antique ceramics, leaded glass, and water from pipes with lead solder.
Browsing the shops is the main pastime: the stores offer rural knick-knacks and antiques as well as a fair amount of New Age wares such as quartz crystals, incense burners and Indian rugs.
There are some fine tapas dishes and a wide choice of tasty Cuban rums and we recommend you lie back on antique couches and chairs and sample the menu.
Or should I prime, then lightly sand and then antique it after each coat of paint I do?
After the castings were attached, the entire frame was gilded in antique gold.
A short stroll along memory lane reveals an interesting range of speciality shops including antiques, art and craft, gift shops and galleries.
Martyrs did not entirely disappear, but they were different from their late antique predecessors; they might be bishops killed in political strife, missionaries killed by pagans, or confessors being ‘living dead’.
I have walked out of antique shops with stuff worth up to 20,000. Times, Sunday Times
His large wooden desk is covered and surrounded by a collection of antique Montblanc pens, West African Bobo masks he collects them because they share his name and odd-looking sculptures of goats and rams in clothing by artist Sergio Bustamante. A Gathering Place as Warm as the Conversation
Although this is a typical Islamic motif, it traces its origins to the vine and acanthus scroll ornament of the late antique classical world, and the pattern itself refers back on the other hand to early Syrian textiles.
She worked in the antiques trade, searching out hidden gems in the most unlikely places.
From that point forward I made an effort to look inside old cameras whenever we would stop in antique stores and Sunday flea markets. Mango Falls | clusterflock
But linear perspective itself is probably a renaissance not an antique invention, and Durer's approach to ancient architecture is remarkably free and unlearned.
M/s Merchant and Ivory's films resemble a small antique shop displaying old colonial cars, rosewood bedposts, long cotton gowns and unfiltered cigarette cases.
The fancy bowls, water jugs and chamber pots, now so beloved of antique dealers, were in every bedroom.
Above, on a wooden platform, are the mill stones, accompanied by one or two antique items of interest.
Also they mixed materials such as wood, iroko, luxurious fabrics, wallpapers, antique furniture and impressive chandeliers. Contemporary Greek Style House in the UK
Freud's obsession with archaeology -- he liked to "fondle" antique objects while he ate -- has interested psychoanalysts more than archaeologists. Books: Seductions of the Soil
I've often noticed the Market Street streetcars because they've returned a number of restored antique cars to operation.
The windows were lit revealing a selection of antiques behind security grilles. A SEASON IN HELL
Each room is uniquely styled and many feature antique or bespoke furniture, while common areas include landscaped gardens and elegant drawing rooms with open fires. Times, Sunday Times
The watery theme continues with multi colored shells in blue and green hues on the ceiling and windowed walls covered in a mirror material that's been antiqued to somewhat successfully resemble seawater.
People grow in everything from custom-made pottery to antique bathtubs, with clay pots and wooden planters being more common.
It has a number of attractive old domestic buildings, schedule for preservation, and some interesting antique shops.
It is pleasing to note in this list that not only the garments and stuffs, but the very colors named, have an antique sound; and we read in other inventories of such tints as philomot (feuillemort), gridolin Customs and Fashions in Old New England
The value of antiques will depend on their condition and rarity.
The antiques dealer found the letters in a box of books and miscellaneous items, which was to be thrown out.
Philpott understood the gesture and browsed through the antiques until the lone customer had left the shop.
An antique four-poster bed dominated the room, surrounded by abstract watercolor paintings in vivid jewel tones. Rogue Oracle
Her quarries are the names behind the faces in 50,000 antique negatives left in the town's shuttered Casasola photography studio. In Old El Paso, This Detective Story
Its 10 rooms combine antique furniture with swish bathrooms. Times, Sunday Times
Most antique furniture can suffer as a result of extremes in temperature, especially painted and lacquered examples and those inlaid with marquetry, brass or ivory decoration.
He had personally recruited the antique dealer.
You also might consider a gardenia, white-flowering duranta, white datura (can trigger allergy) and ‘Ducher,’ an antique white rose, for sun.
The waxable skis are more like thirty-five or forty years old, laminated wood, and probably belong in an antique shop for potential ski lodge decor... Snowblowers Awake! A Voice Is Calling!
_Sybils_; and bid him mind the antiqueness of the work: the more she commended it, the more he liked it, and told her, she must let him call it his: she told him, he would give it away to the next commender: he vowed he would not: she told him then he should not only call it his, but it should in reality be so; and he vowed it should be the last thing he would part with in the world. Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
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The process is driven by the twin goals of participating in the new modern look and of accessing the authentically antique.
The rest came from old buildings or antique shops. Times, Sunday Times
We carry the largest stock of antique silver in the country.
They have a pleasant mix of antiques, retro furniture and contemporary art. Times, Sunday Times
This feminine fashion with the antique agrees with a great freedom of manners, this vestimentary behaviour lets see the shapes of the body as much as possible, does not obstruct the movements and facilitates the joys of the dance.
Twentieth-century blue-blood decorator Sister Parish, America's version of Ms. Castaing, was asked once why she had put a worthless giltwood curtain finial atop a lovely antique clock in her entrance hall. The Decorator's Decorator
We like to dress a house to the period, so most of our stuff was antique furniture. Times, Sunday Times
From most silly novels we can at least extract a laugh; but those of the modern-antique school have a ponderous, a leaden kind of fatuity, under which we groan. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
People are now very happy to buy antiques and then change them after five or ten years. Times, Sunday Times
There are stone benches, wrought-iron fences and gates, wall fountains, pots, pillars, and antique baskets.
Opened a little over a year ago, atop Burger King, cater-corner from the Virrey de Mendoza is Casa del Portal, which was a private home until its reincarnation as an eatery, café, and antique shop. The colonial cities
However, with perseverance and patience, you will be sure to find that perfect antique collectible you have been seeking.
An ancient Russian icon in nielloed silver and one of these Christs in carved wood, executed in the seventeenth century by Bogard de Nancy, in an antique frame of gilded wood backed with velvet, were the only things that slightly relieved the banality of the decoration. Là-bas
I have an original IWW poster from WWI, "A bayonet is a killing tool with a worker at either end.", teriffic graphics, that really needs to show up on Antiques Roadshow some day. MSM To Obama: Be Wary Of Left-Wing Groups Demanding Too Much Change
3 Lay forth out of your everlasting scrine scrine > {Casket or cabinet for archival papers} 4 The antique rolls, which there lie hidden still, antique > ancient The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
White's descriptions of daily life in medieval England are ravishingly vivid: Like a restorer of antiques, he strips away the grime and smoke from the past until it's bright and clear as the present. Arthur Comes Alive In 'The Once And Future King'
They bought up pieces of old furniture and passed them off as valuable antiques.
Three years ago we helped an old lady with a cluttered house that looked like an antiques shop. Times, Sunday Times
The home was well maintained and was furnished with many antiques and wall hangings from around the world.
I also made her keep an n th file, of those antiques which I'd told her to reject. THE TARTAN RINGERS
I also made her keep an n th file, of those antiques which I'd told her to reject. THE TARTAN RINGERS
Some of the country's finest opera singers perform nightly in the lounge, and each room is decorated with musical antiques, like a grand piano (suites from $381; mollies. co.nz). The Kiwi Boutiques
Sarah walked over to the antique dresser and mirror set and assumed a gloomy appearance. ‘After all, my grandmother just died,’ she thought.
The company specialises in reclaiming antique wood for use in the home.
Paint on oil-based paint, then partially rub off for an antiqued look.
PANAJI: Two employees of a lifestyle showroom in Panaji have allegedly misappropriated Rs 9 lakh in the last four months by not accounting for antique items they sold, said police sources. The Times of India
He had found several unbroken antique glass insulators which were hot items right now among the cityfolk who collected all sorts of strange things.
A wide range of distinctive antique items - from jewellery, porcelain and paintings to clocks and a selection of furniture - will be on sale.
Looking to the antique grandfather clock in the hallway, I raised a brow.
It seems possible that the past three or four decades, which have seen such frenetic activity in the salerooms and such an increase in public awareness of the potential monetary value of art and antiques, have been untypical.
If we keep this mighty nation one and inseparable, we shall have answered it forever; if not, why then those who revile man as vile and irreclaimably degraded may raise their pæans of triumph; the black spectres of antique tyrants may clap their hands gleefully in the land of accursed shadows, and hell hold high carnival, for, verily, it would seem as if they had triumphed, and that hope were a lie. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Both his marriages failed and he lost his antiques shop after not paying his tax. Times, Sunday Times
Other exemptions -- such as for fine art or antiques -- can push that limit higher.
Oriental rugs over large antique pine floorboards soften and warm each space.
I was wondering where you get teacups like this, as I don't usually see them in antique stores. Crinoline Lady Craft
Rooms: Room are decorated in an eclectic blend of Balinese and Italian styles, with attractive features such as thatched roofs, handcrafted antiques and terrazzo bathrooms. WN.com - Articles related to Don't fry in the sun
The rest came from old buildings or antique shops. Times, Sunday Times
It was something so old fashioned as to be almost antique.
Parents, music lovers and the curious wander in and find a seat amongst a mishmash of antique chairs, an old couch and anything else that remotely resembles a place to rest.
The home accents are embellished with an antique effect with the help of a variety of plating like bronze, silver, nickel, chrome, pewter and black nickel.
The ground floor also features antique wood panelling on the walls and front bar with an inviting open gas fire near the entrance.
You will find antique stores, ski shops, a clock and lamp shop, ice cream parlor, a book store, Vermont made furniture store, and a quilt shop, to name a few.
Therefore Paige Emerson is not an antiques dealer!
For one thing, her grandmother was an antiques dealer, a collector, a bowerbird of the human species. The Forgotten Garden
(that of Oxford donship undoubtedly is), but I can't tell you how antique it all seems. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 1, 1916
Rooms are tastefully done, with the focus on antique furnishings, canopy beds and plush textiles. Times, Sunday Times
Two dealers bid against each other for the antique table.
Maybe the inhabitants can't see it, but there is a freshness and antique aura of the quaint little shops and farms that is breathtaking and endearing.
Despite competition from shops offering antiques and locally crafted furniture, Fox's Lair came in for the bulk of the publicity.
Conservation-Restoration of antique clocks, antique furniture, books and library material, ceramics and related materials and fine metalwork.
Many travelers combine their sun and sand vacation with a visit to Oaxaca, searching out unique pieces of folk art including dance masks, pottery and painted clay figures, rugs and tapestries, and antiques from the colonial period forward. Jacobo Angeles: A rich wood-carving tradition in Oaxaca, dating to pre-Hispanic times
The subject of fakes, forgeries and deceptions is intriguing enough by itself to pique the curiosity of those who have only a passing interest in the world of art and antiques.
He is refused service in an antique store by an old man who answers even obvious questions in the negative.
The antique engine, known as Tigger, is normally found at the Summerlee Museum of WN.com - Articles related to Cut costs by Rs 800 cr or no Govt help: Patel to AI staff
The antique table went to the lady in the pink hat.
Victorian cut glass is perhaps the most underpriced area of the antique glass market.
A Antiques are indeed affected by the vagaries of fashion. Times, Sunday Times
He had personally recruited the antique dealer.
Many shop signs are still in Afrikaans, the antique Dutch spoken by those of Afrikaner descent.
The superlatively discreet foreign - exchange banker diversified from the very beginning, selling antiques and procuring loans.
The antique vehicle is also a treat to look at, with its red coachwork, gold lining on the bonnet, antique lamps and a wicker picnic basket on the side. Baby, You Can Drive My Car
Today, its exquisite towering antique stained glass windows are broken and covered in layers of dust, its walls are cracked and peeling and the weak wooden balcony cannot support a choir anymore.
Carefully-chosen classic antiques and quality paintings should yield solid returns over time.
The room is all beige with an antique Oriental chest providing the appropriate backdrop.
I even have a fortunetelling machine in my office; I'm an antique toy collector.
The decor is a mix of antique and modern.
Philpott understood the gesture and browsed through the antiques until the lone customer had left the shop.
She wore an antique gown to the costume party.
Mark's posting on Camille Paglia's charges of decline in attention is right on the mark - this is just an antique jeremiad in new packaging.
The antiques industry wants the proof to be authentication by an expert rather than documentary evidence. Times, Sunday Times
It is an online digital stall where hipsters can sell their homemade craft goods or vintage items and antiques. Times, Sunday Times
An antique chair that was needlepointed by duPont raised $15,000 at the inaugural Thoroughbred Charities Auction held in the Moelis's living room.
All elements are placed on antique looking furniture, teapoys, plant stands and traditional Irani chairs.
Inside, antiques, family paintings and period furniture enhance the elegance and character inherent in this finely proportioned manor house.
He fetched an extremely battered antique book from his bookshelf.
Since many of us like things that look antiqued, paint can be an inexpensive ally.
You can't give away Granny's old bookcase - it's a valuable antique.
Yet whilst department-store glass sheds its entire financial value the moment it has been bought, antique and more modern glass not only retains value but also possesses a unique social resonance.
He has the louchely thoughtful air of a Fulham Road antiques dealer. Times, Sunday Times
Another antique rule provided that a corporation could not be indicted for a felony like perjury.
With the property boom, furniture is experiencing a parallel boost, with increased demand for antique and contemporary pieces.
Damascene dealers boast what they describe as the most interesting collection of antique carpets and rugs this side of Persia.
The castle was restored early last century and its chambers contain valuable paintings and antique furniture. Times, Sunday Times
The Etruscan style epitomized another aspect of the antique tradition that was Italic and not Greek, a humble realism opposed to the perfection of the Hellenic canon.
This isn't a genuine antique-you've been done.
In a Dolce and Gabanna dress and acid green Philip Treacy hat, antique dealer Sarah Vernon, 38, drew approving glances from fellow-racegoers.
In many places around the country, you'll find a monthly antique flea market; sometimes, at the end of the day, sellers actually leave things behind because they don't want to schlepp them home.
The home accents are embellished with an antique effect with the help of a variety of plating like bronze, silver, nickel, chrome, pewter and black nickel.
X with antique furniture and old oil paintings; some have four-poster beds. Times, Sunday Times
While Pakistan beckoned us with its antique wooden chests, Turkey had me mesmerised with its flying dervishes.
arguments" the term venerable is used instead of mouldy, and hallowed instead of devilish; whereas there is nothing properly venerable or antique about a language which is not yet four hundred years old, and about a jumble of imbecile spellings which were grotesque in the beginning, and which grow more and more grotesque with the flight of the years. Chapters from My Autobiography
If you will visit antique stores, you will see that a lot of this crochet and embroidery is now surfacing from estate sales. Archive 2008-09-01
You can stay in a grass hut with sunset views for a few pounds and it's wonderful, but for just shy of £50, you get into Bon Ton, a beautiful resort of antique stilted fishermen's houses overlooking a water-lilied lagoon.
Oliver made a fortune by investing in antique furniture.
The 69-year-old is heading out to the wild blue yonder for some more golf and perhaps a spot of antique hunting.
They both love browsing in antique shops wherever they happen to be visiting, and appreciate good quality modern and reproduction designs.
Since then, like a lot of anglers in recent years, he's been hooked by antique tackle as well.
He can distinguish a genuine antique from a reproduction.
Artists and antique dealers have moved in, giving the neighbourhood a raffish bohemian energy.
The local antique dealers held a flea market and fair on the high - school athletic field.
Small is beautiful in the world of antiques where miniature furniture has become so collectable that some of the highest quality pieces are selling for more than the real thing.
She furnished the space with comfortable, stylish pieces, including a chair found at a flea market, an old coffee table, and an antique daybed.
Antique andirons and fireplace tools survive in some quantity, but hard use has often taken its toll and they may be more decorative than useful today.
A collection of antique quilts and bedspreads are pressed into service for those who prefer to lounge on the grass.
It is a world of antique privilege about to be replaced by a thrusting business ethic.
You put a pound in an antique object that claimed to be a computer and prayed. Times, Sunday Times
Have-a-go hero Richard was nominated by girlfriend Sarah Parker after chasing a youth who had raided a Malton antiques shop.
In terms of shopping, there are opportunities galore if you are in the market for trendy garments, toys, Chinese silks, antiques and curios.
Par exemple, on évitera les cadres “frames”, les liens en javascript, le balisage non sémantique, etc. 2007 August — Climb to the Stars
The Summer Fair is the largest fully vetted fine art and antiques fair in the UK, comprising over 330 dealers.
I haunted antique shops in Kentish Town and bought old furniture for very little. Times, Sunday Times
Travel Nurse - RN such as the antique heritage tractor adventure, july 4th fireworks celebration, engle lane community theater, art on the prairie fine arts festival in the park .... Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk
Among the thieves' haul were four antique boxes, rare Meissen porcelain figures, vases and bowls, and two ormolu clocks, which had all been in Lord Chichester's family for generations.
We thought it was a genuine antique, but it turned out to be a fake.
She had her antique vases valued by a reputable dealer.
And Lily spent these minutes catching her final glimpses of the magical land of Delaware—drinking in the strangeness and the antiqueness she had come to love. Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger!
Next thing you know, my bathtub drain clogged and, being an unhandy single head of household with a knack for networking with all manner of service pros, I picked up the phone to call my plumber, who'd previously told me never to use Draino on antique pipes in an old house. Janet Carlson: Popular Mechanics: A Modern Woman's Heartthrob
Hunting through the yard sales, second hand shops, and antique malls for a gewgaw is delightful challenge. Archive 2008-01-01
He has been trading in antique furniture for 25 years.
Around this time, he met an antiques dealer named Lucille Teasel.
Check out the antique shops. Times, Sunday Times
They wore antique gold off-the-shoulder dresses, and tiaras, and carried smaller versions of the bride's bouquet.
It seems perfectly apt to find that during the Seventies, Gibson made part of his living as "what antique dealers called a 'picker'", hunting through charity shops and thrift stores for valuable items that could be sold up the chain to collectors. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
The Sunday antique market is a happy hunting ground for collectors.
Luck discovers the true value of some antique china. The Sun
Pacioli's four mathematical disciplines are the antique and medieval quadrivium.
Williams was identified as an antiques dealer, a restorer of historic houses, and a giver of elegant parties at his "showplace" home, which Jacqueline Onassis had visited and offered to buy for $2 million. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
All the rooms are suites with a mix of modern furniture and antiques, and the restaurant is one of the best in Denmark. nimb. dk Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
Two came recently: the winningly inventive Opening Ceremony, selling pioneering, quirky international fashion — long black Brazilian capes, finely knitted German undershirts — by designers and manufacturers you’ve almost certainly never heard of; and De Vera, a sort of hyper-curated flea market — a Wunderkammer, really — where necklaces made from ancient intaglios are displayed in artfully crammed vitrines alongside antique opium pipes and Victorian mourning jewelry. A Bit of Punctuation
Near the elevator door was a fake fireplace and an antique mahogany mantelpiece with great bunches of fruit carved on each corner.
Just to add an extra twist to the festivities at their Riverside Church wedding, the bride, who is in her 30s, will walk down the aisle in an antique Edwardian wedding gown sewn in 1909.
The astonishing collection of antiques, bygones and collectibles of Lincolnshire artist is expected to attract hundreds of fans.
There is something beautifully reassuring about the presence of an antique grandfather clock in a home; it makes a statement about permanence and comfort that's hard to beat.
Our take An expert in deliciously textured French rustic antiques. Times, Sunday Times
PUNE: Antique jewellery that adorned the idol of goddess Shivai at the Shivneri fort in Junnar taluka were found stolen on early Tuesday morning. Are We Losing Our Faith in Tough Times?
Intruders used a fireside peat basket to carry antique silverware, porcelain and clocks to a waiting van.
The missing antique furniture includes a Georgian card table and a Georgian tea table.
Then come the convertibles, antique to kids but nostalgic for oldsters.
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Toni's and Jos's were conventional longswords, carried in long slender cases that looked like instrument cases, but Paul carried only an elegant sword cane, an antique, ebony with a silver ferrule and a large cairngorm set into the silver ball-handle. Spirits White As Lightning
Antique furniture is used to make an attractive contrast with a modern setting.
The pitch pine and mahogany staircase has antique courtesy lights atop carved newel posts and leads to five large bedrooms, all with en suites.
Many of these can be found during the second week in November with a celebration of Asian Art in London when Bonhams, Christie's and Sotheby's hold a number of sales of oriental fine art and antiques.
His shop, a veritable Aladdin's cave of antiques, is for sale.
While a lot of the most valuable Shaker pieces are now antiques, the newer pieces, which are in the Shaker style, are extremely popular.
I have a bunch of antique pendant watches from my grandmother.
There's a scarlet dining-room, with distressed metal walls, a Chinese emperor's daybed for lounging about on, and a fabulous collection of primitive art and antiques.

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