How To Use Luvian In A Sentence
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a ramshackle antediluvian tenement
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If he advocated the same sort of ante-diluvian approach to the teaching of science, there would be uproar?
“The proper narrative of British history”
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And upon the top of that one of the stone pillars supporting the gate which I could see, stood a creature of stone, whether natant, volant, passant, couchant, or rampant, I could not tell, only it looked like something terrible enough for a quite antediluvian heraldry.
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
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Sally Keeble, MP for Northampton North, thought the ban epitomised 'the complete nonsense of an institution that won't move on', and Barbara Follett, MP for Stevenage, talked of 'antediluvian' attitudes.
Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography
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Among the more recent in formation of fossil vegetables, are the bituminized woods; these are often buried to great depths by diluvian action, but are never found in perfect rock.
The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831
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Freeman organises his almost overwhelmingly rich subject into thematic chapters, of which the most absorbing discuss the way such artists as John Martin portrayed the antediluvian world as a place of catastrophe or competition.
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The 'crack pot' rump is now a full 10% ahead of the small but perfectly formed un-intelligentsia and their ante-deluvian beliefs
Time To Set Out His Vision
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One even tells its followers that they may relive former lives, back into antediluvian periods.
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antediluvian ideas
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So far as he was concerned, all animal products were organic -- an attitude Nadia found hopelessly antediluvian.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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The term hapax legomenon), and could mean a lost species of tree, an antediluvian composite, or a lost art of producing wood for shipbuilding.
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My mother has some hopelessly antediluvian ideas about the role of women.
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The last time I was in a gym was in high school, back in an antediluvian time when they had this thing called phys. ed.
Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage
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The antediluvian myth is one where it is suggested that the ancients lived exceptionally long lives.
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Irritable said, "Actually, I've heard people earnestly invoke the dome as the source of the diluvian waters.
Sunday School: Genesis 1:1-2:3
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Why should Wisconsin women be expected to revere his anti-woman, antediluvian teachings?
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The basement behind formed the firs fire station with its antediluvian engine, and opposite was the police station.
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If the Government is reduced to grubbing the votes of its most backward-looking, antediluvian backbenchers, then what is it in office for?
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This antediluvian monetary system has now been replaced by the up - to - date monetary system of Japan.
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A. David Lewis and MP Mann have made their four-issue series on diluvian or flood myths, Some Kind of Slaughter, available for free download in the hopes of garnering a Harvey Awards nomination.
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Actually, I've heard people earnestly invoke the dome as the source of the diluvian waters.
Sunday School: Genesis 1:1-2:3
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antediluvian man
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An antediluvian civilization, thriving and technologically advanced prior to the flood, managed to survive the flood due to their technological prowess.
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You are made to feel like an antediluvian creature or a downright atheist!
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Hard not like a man who describes himself as "an antediluvian, bibliomaniac, and curmudgeon.
Deo gratias ..
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I suppose putting them at work wasn't such a bad idea, living in an old church brings to mind ancient floods, and I'm sure there's more than a shred of truth in the story behind the biblical diluvian fantasy.
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But in the financial crisis of 2007-08 a mighty real-estate bubble burst, and today the country is still stumbling like a dazed man through the postdiluvian landscape of recession.
History, Horses and the Luck of the Irish
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Still, the two gurus were making the same point: In no time, today's Net will be an antediluvian relic, replaced by an unimaginably advanced network that controls all communication everywhere.
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Amid the antediluvian machismo, Mowlam posed as a political tea-lady and helped to deliver peace.
Our one and only Mo
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Parker also complains that British (military) ambulances are "antediluvian" and "reveals" that the laboratory at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, which is used to match blood and test samples, had to close between 11.30am and 3.30pm because the air-conditioning system could not keep the temperature below 97F (36C).
Archive 2007-06-01
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Are we to perpetually rely on the Courts to twist constitutional doctrines, in myriad ways, with all their resulting sorts of side effects (and benefits, too, no doubt) and absurdities in order to obviate antideluvian laws, particularly those regulating social norms?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Recent Michigan Prosecutions for “Seducing an Unmarried Woman”
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This would give the public a route into the evidence independent of the broadcasters and their ante-diluvian copyright and selective editing regimes.
William Perrin: An Open Digital Iraq Inquiry
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The Cardiff giant is a fake fossil of an antediluvian giant some ten feet high with 21 inch feet.
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Regrettably, this illogical and antediluvian attitude still persists even when we are dealing with nations substantially richer than ourselves.
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Take a look in the playhouses of some Scottish towns and you can still find the sort of antediluvian performances which used to struggle to get on the bill at Butlins in the 50s.
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If all the inhabitants of the postdiluvian world are, as the Scriptures teach, descended from Noah, they must, indeed, have used one and the same language.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
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Other Browne's neologisms which spring immediately to mind include - 'electrical' 'electricity' 'hallucination' 'caricature' 'pathology' 'ambidextrous' 'antediluvian' 'retromingent' 'callyphygae' , 'gymnastically' and many, many others.
Author, author: Henry Hitchings on neologisms
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The lineage of the Negro has been directly traced through Cush to Ham; hence, to argue the total moral depravity of the sons of Ham is but to concede the total moral depravity of the entire human race, as emanated from Noah in the postdiluvian age.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro
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‘The newspaper industry prices itself in a way that is at best archaic and at worst antediluvian,’ he says.
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If the Fire Brigades Union had more deft leadership, it might have found a way to secure something approaching its pay demand by offering to negotiate its antediluvian work practices.
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In the new dispensation, religion is being hemmed into a narrow, private world, as if a public commitment to certain beliefs is old-fashioned and antediluvian, like wearing your shirt inside your drawers.
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Plato in the form of a myth, but it was a myth more or less harmonious with Greek folklore, and the birth of the postdiluvian race from stones.
CYCLES
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That the zodial [23] signs are significant records of something worthy of being preserved, is prejudice to deny; and we must be allowed to regard the Gorgons and Hydras of the skies as interesting problems yet unsolved, as well as to consider that the belief in lunar influence is a fragment of a true system of natural philosophy which has become more and more debased in postdiluvian times.
Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
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In addition, the parallels between the Sumerian and biblical antediluvian data open up the possibility of establishing chronological correlations between the rest of the Kings List and the book of Genesis.
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In this diluvian world the little church where grandmother used to sing in the choir is a source merely of unwelcome and finally fatal intrusions.
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He had found that people for some reason felt reassured by the production of these antediluvian tools of the journalist's trade.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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When Dewi Morris uses the word "antediluvian" you know you've got a problem
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A remnant of the decade that fashion forgot, these antediluvian monstrosities have emerged, gasping in to the 21st Century.
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Wilcox is a bit antediluvian, but use your charm on him and see if he can come up with anything.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity of the whale, in his own osseous postdiluvian reality, as set down by the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Blow it out the hole in your astrakhan coat, you antediluvian bastid.
Obama To Declare Victory: "Our Primary Season Has Finally Come To An End"
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Such methods are, of course, antediluvian now.
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(The antediluvian computer is called the Tomba 5000, because the monitor is trimmed with pink fur.
Ana-ng Diary Entry
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Once the flood fades away, the city is redistributed in a new arrangement and a postdiluvian landscape emerges.
Floating New Orleans to weather the storm | Inhabitat
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He complains that merchants in Pasadena are "antediluvian" when it comes to the Internet.
Journerdism | Will Sullivan's Stompin' ground for journalists and nerds.
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Lots of words are just as rarely used, and yet just as legitimate: consider “trichinosis”, “antediluvian”, “antiphonic”, “okapi”.
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Another commentator, the Malbim, explains the shift from a physical perspective: The post-diluvian era was marked by a general weakening of the human condition.
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They gave me what they called a beefsteak pie -- a tough crust and under it some blackish cubes carved out of the muscle of an antediluvian ox-and for this delicious fare and a glass of stout I paid three shillings and odd pence.
Afoot in England
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The ability to touch-type is greatly overrated unless you are the secretary - sorry, PA - to some antediluvian boss who still wants to dictate letters.
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Four large-scale paintings, representing his third solo exhibition there (over an eight-year period), consumed the wall space of a smallish room with an unorthodox elucidation of his diluvian subject.
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Either our chronology is at fault, or the pyramids must have been constructed by the antediluvian demigods, and have outstood the strength of the surging seas which rolled over the earth.
The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
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Hanley Black's wife, a stout-in-the-middle matron of 45, thinks "It's positively indecent" while her husband "surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of ante-diluvian, New England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye" and tells her in a sentence never uttered by a human before or since, "You appear as a creature shameful, under a grotesqueness of apparel striving to hide some secret awfulness.
“It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
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Well now his self-contradictions will be in plain view, and he'll be compared not with crazy Guilianis and inept Romneys and antediluvian Huckabees, but with an attractive, dynamic young Democrat who will not let McCain corning the "straight talk" market.
McCain: Obama Has Nothing In Common With Hamas -- But The Voters Think It Should Be An Issue, Anyway
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Maybe these antediluvian creatures were having a good old natter about the ammonite down the road and then WHAM they got fossilised?
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From what cursed old antediluvian, who lived before the invention of spinning-jennies, she learned this craft, Heaven only knows; but there she sits, with her work pinned to her knee — not the pretty taper silken fabric, with which
Saint Ronan's Well
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antediluvian" shape of the bat -- no paddings on the legs.
Pickwickian Manners and Customs
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Birds did not evolve from massive sauropods or antediluvian, tanklike ankylosaurs or even from the large tyrannosaurs (which do, in fact, branch fairly close to birds on the dinosaur bush).
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Flash forward two decades and the documentary section had become a sleepy backwater, with an antediluvian selection committee seemingly oblivious to new currents in documentary film.
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An embarrassed Steil opened his antediluvian Hotpoint refrigerator and poured water into two discarded Classic Coke cans.
OUTCAST
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Egypt, because of its antiquity and the affinities of the hiero - glyphs to Chinese characters, was identified by some as the center from which the great postdiluvian migra - tion to the East began.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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‘The newspaper industry prices itself in a way that is at best archaic and at worst antediluvian,’ he says.
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Part of this is a reflection of inadequate staffing, poor management, and an antediluvian records system; some is a question of attitude, especially among inexperienced, simply ignorant, or poorly led secondary care teams.
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A long horn projects from the snout, and it is a fac-simile in miniature of the antediluvian monster, the "iguanodon," who was about a hundred feet long and twelve feet thick -- an awkward creature to meet in a narrow road.
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
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If the Government is reduced to grubbing the votes of its most backward-looking, antediluvian backbenchers, then what is it in office for?
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That sounds positively antediluvian now, doesn't it?
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Patriarchs, ten postdiluvian; seventy descendants of Jacob are named on the occasion of Israel's going into Egypt, though some of them were dead at that time, others had not yet been born; the ethnographical list of Genesis enumerates seventy nations, though it gives some names of little importance and omits others of great importance; I Par., ii, 3-55, gives seventy descendants of Juda; I
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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antediluvian," and for startling originality in his views as well as fearlessness in expressing them.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
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Perhaps the giant bike racks are actually intended to be mooring anchors for personal water craft in post-diluvian NYC.
Nether Mind the Bulwarks: Awash With Bikes
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Birds did not evolve from massive sauropods or antediluvian, tanklike ankylosaurs or even from the large tyrannosaurs.
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If I remember correctly from my antediluvian youth, he's in there right now endlessly combing his hair but it won't make a scrap of difference.
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Some new kind of slaughter, or, Lost in the flood and how we found home again : diluvian myths from around the world / Chicago : Archaia, c2007.
Archive 2010-03-01
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I bought it from Alan Austin's shop, which was not a shop but a basement with occasional opening hours, in those antediluvian days of 1975 when there were no comic shops, somewhere in South London.
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Antiquites Celtiques," published in 1847, M. Boucher de Perthes styled these older tools "antediluvian," because they came from the lowest beds of a series of ancient alluvial strata bordering the valley of the Somme, which geologists had termed "diluvium.
The Antiquity of Man
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Sufficient is however left to show that it belongs to an order of animals not yet described as either of anti or post-diluvian existence.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The other almost always requires a delicate dance through a minefield of potential libel, antediluvian prejudice, and post-publication recriminations.
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Other Browne's neologisms which spring immediately to mind include - 'electrical' 'electricity' 'hallucination' 'caricature' 'pathology' 'ambidextrous' 'antediluvian' 'retromingent' 'callyphygae' , 'gymnastically' and many, many others.
Author, author: Henry Hitchings on neologisms
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But in the financial crisis of 2007-'08 a mighty real-estate bubble burst, and today the country is still stumbling like a dazed man through the postdiluvian landscape of recession.
Finding the Next Winner
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Historic under-investment, endemic overmanning and antediluvian labour relations finally caught up with it just when it had a management least able to cope.
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Now, as we drive into the Age of Dinosaurs, we have another choice: we can head north, into Queensland where a few dinosaurs have been found in an antediluvian inland sea and a huge series of river deltas that emptied into it.
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Officials at headquarters either forgot about it, or could not store the information in a useful place because of an antediluvian computer system.
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But I cannot see the House of Lords' decision as some sort of cataclysm which has put a quarter of a century's family jurisprudence into antediluvian obsolescence.
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That way, they would have found out what kind of antediluvian throwback they hve admitted to the EU.
Timesofmalta.com
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The doctor armed himself, and held himself in readiness to fire upon an animal which, by its dimensions, recalled the antediluvian quadrupeds.
The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras
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Despite the Jessica accident, tourists still flock to the Galapagos, tempted by a once-in-a-lifetime chance to return the antediluvian stare of a giant tortoise or turn cartwheels with playful sea lions in an underwater ballet.
