How To Use Relic In A Sentence

But a surge in thefts of treasured relics from ancient temples and monuments has reached such a level that an agonised debate has begun over bringing back the death penalty.
Researchers from the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Henan Province in Zhengzhou found the flutes, crafted from the hollow ulnae (wing bones) of red-crowned crane, among fragments of 30 others at the Neolithic (ca. 8000-2000 B.C.) site of Jiahu in central Henan Province. Oldest Musical Instruments Still Play a Tune
The pylon is to be the centerpiece of a planned underwater museum featuring relics uncovered from the Mediterranean seabed. Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
This is the northernmost and wettest of the central Asian depressions, remnants of a Tertiary era inland sea, with relict glaciers, glacier lakes and a wide variety of rock types, the result of a long series of successive eras of deposition and orogeny. Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia
The town itself is a wonderful example of a lived-in, somewhat shopworn, urban relic.

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These intagli would be interesting relics for collectors of such flotsam and jetsam of a ruined dynasty. Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles
On her right stood an empty cottage, fast becoming derelict.
Our school is still fantastic inside but from the outside, with its boarded up windows, it appears gloomy, horrible and derelict.
Into this battered relic, she put her own meager possessions. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
Farmers occasionally plow up old Indian relics.
A derelict synagogue may not be visible in the bazaar, but a Jewish cemetery is accessible on the city outskirts. Magda Abu-Fadil: Lebanon's Jews: Loyalty to Whom? BBC Documentary Tracks Vanished Community
Around 140 luxury homes are being built around the course as part of a deal to save one of Ireland's great stately homes from dereliction.
The worst dereliction is tolerance of rave parties where illegal drugs are sold and used, and minors are sexually exploited. Sound Politics: Seattle needs more police; and needs to use better sense in deploying the ones it already has
The subtlety of the fragmentary relics of ancient hominid fossil evidence was astonishing.
The board will demand specialist medical advice that this is not the case, otherwise it is inconceivable that he will be relicensed.
Yet today, having been unpegged completely from the world monetary system, gold is neither relic nor toilet tile; it is more important than ever, and precisely because the paper value of goods and services is ever-more dependent on the whims of an elite few. Gold and the Barbarians
Maduna apparently called Tshishonga a "dunderhead" and a "relic of the bantustans". ANC Daily News Briefing
Then the regional financial crisis hit and suddenly the air was full of accusations of bureaucratic ineptitude, corruption and outright dereliction of duty.
If this dereliction is allowed to persist, it is predictable that more Americans will die, both on foreign battlefields and at home. Stealth Jihad by Frank Gaffney, Jr. and The American Legion « Mark12ministries’s Weblog
Farmers occasionally plough up old Indian relics.
In general it has to be dumped in derelict and unguarded houses, where such of it as is not looted is ruined by damp. As I Please
Why are the peelers quizzing this innocent young derelict?
Apologies should be taken automatically as acknowledgement of personal complicity in the crime or dereliction.
The accumulation of linguistic relics is not just so much cultural detritus.
It was not the porter who spoke now: it was some kind of official relic or shadow or mouchard left from the old custom-house, and suffered to hang on the railway-station as an ornament. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
The plant has spawned human fatalities and engendered the strange fauna and flora found on the eerie headland where the derelict buildings remain. Times, Sunday Times
On these relics of antiquity and of ancestorial memorials devolving on Dr. Jefferson, he sought for a place of deposit for them, suitable to their dignity, their character, and their times. The Scottish Chiefs
Poe had been a musty relic, someone she was forced to read in high school, nothing more than " nevermore. IN A STRANGE CITY
The owner, Gerald Thornton, was as much of a relic as the rare and ancient coins in which he specialized. CHAMELEON
Mehmet II, who collected Christian relics and occasionally watched a Christian service, even revived the Oecumenical patriarchate, the senior see of Orthodox Christianity.
Teenage fighters with rocket-propelled grenades and rifles lurked on bridges or in derelict areas near the main highway leading west toward the embattled town of Fallujah.
Artistic works of this relic - called either the "Image of Edessa" or the "mandylion" - generally have it portrayed as the face of Christ upon a towel or kerchief. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Their great old houses overflow with rough medieval furniture, threadbare tapestries and religious relics worn smooth by the touch of generations.
In 1881, the schooner Ellen Austin, bound for London, discovered a derelict adrift in the Sargasso.
When the time came to enshrine the relic, however, it split in two.
Rows of pollarded trees (relics from the car park) structure and animate the landscape.
These are low in diversity but high in populations for some of the macrofauna, some of which are relicts of earlier periods, others at the extremes of their latitudinal and environmental distribution. Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden
Vale watched helplessly as a series of explosions reduced the once-proud cruiser to a blackened derelict.
So the ratite lineage combines aspects of both endemism and relictualism—endemism at the level of species, relictualism at the level of the group. The Song of The Dodo
What other cause finds you derelict in your responsibilities to your own people?
Mr. George Constable, filled in perhaps unconsciously from the author's own life; for he, no less than his friend, delighted in collecting relics, and in studying out the lines, prætoria, and general castrametation of the English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
In my view he would be derelict in his duty if he didn't have a contingency plan.
I thought it fitting to share with you an image of St. Lawrence from the basilica dedicated to him in Rome, St. Lawrence outside the Walls, as well as the confessio beneath the high altar of the same basilica, where his relics are kept and venerated. Feast of St. Lawrence
It contains a massive array of war relics, collected from all round the world down the years, including authentic uniforms modelled by specially-made dummies in authentic uniforms.
His apparent instruction to passport control officers to wave through hordes of visitors unchecked was a grotesque dereliction of duty. The Sun
The ploughman turned up some relics of ancient times.
Pilgrimages to the sites of miracles and holy relics grew ever more popular, and the number of such places increased.
Jin Sha Relic, found in Modi River around, is the culture relic of Kai Ming Kingdom. Kai Ming people were good at water-control.
Most relics were credited with miraculous healing powers, while some were also invoked as guardians of justice. The Times Literary Supplement
They used powerful spells on the relic, that would prove to be most potent and would repel evil forces from using it.
Why has nobody publicly paid the price for gross and blatant dereliction of duty? The Sun
The cases then can be placed in larger items for display, which then are called reliquaries and also count as a third-class relic for hosting the first-class relic. Coshoctontribune.com - Local News
This is based on references in Irish hagiography to belts having been preserved as relics of the saints who wore them.
The house was a relic of Florida construction from the 1920s, a small wood-frame building raised on short concrete pilings.
It is exhilarating to visit these monasteries, as also the Buddhist Museum which has Buddhist relics excavated from various parts of India.
I was sort of derelict today, I decided I'd sleep in and kind of laze around. President Remarks To Press Pool
Relicto illo, aegre ipsi interim faciens, et omnino difficilis. Anatomy of Melancholy
Once viewed as a relic, continental drift and seafloor spreading evolved into the modern concept of plate tectonics.
We push below this mudsill the derelicts and halfmen, whom we hate and despise, and seek to build above it—Democracy! DARKWATER
A legendary relic, a dragon-wrought amulet, the Heart of Fire may be the salvation of her people, and Sorcha is willing to pay any price to obtain it, but when she discovers the price is the loss of her humanity, she learns caution too late. Romance Divas » 2007 » February
The fact that a coastguard was the first on board may save some complications, later on, in the Admiralty Court; for coastguards cannot claim the salvage which is the right of the first civilian entering on a derelict. Dracula
It will take time for Microsoft to relicense other SDL documentation, but the company will keep developers up to date on its progress," Ladd said. Microsoft boosts access to secure development guidelines
It is already the case that at the time of relicensing with police, firearms licence applicants voluntarily allow the recording of details of firearms they possess.
The apostle's anointing was in order to heal the disease; the popish anointing is for the expulsion of the relics of sin, and to enable the soul (as they pretend) the better to combat with the powers of the air. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
They named it the Ethnic Corridor (minzu zoulang) and argued that a full understanding of early migration through this pass would shed light on many myths of ethnicity, language, and ritual around Yunnan. 21 The influence of the Di and Qiang nomadic culture was evident in Neolithic relics in Yunnan, revealing the close relationship among Yunnan, Tibet, and Central Asia. 22 Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
From a distance he looks like a wreck, a derelict.
In Scotland, however, the old code remained legal and came to be viewed simultaneously as a relic of outmoded ways of life and as a sign of modernity.
People believed that healing could occur through direct contact with the relics — by touching them, drinking water or wine in which they had been dipped, sleeping next to the tomb, or eating dirt scraped from the site. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
In Brazil, though rich in luxuriant vegetable and animal life, there is no history – all is new and progressive, but vulgar and parvenu; whereas Syria, in her abomination of desolation, is the old land, and she teems with relics of departed glory. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
So, who were those multitudes venerating the relics of St Therese in Ireland last month?
Shaun Hutson, alias The Godfather of Gore, made his name as a horror writer with novels like Slugs, Spawn and Relics.
Ruby had taken the relic piece -- more relative to the harquebus than to the current fashion in rifles -- and hunted wild turkey and deer through the winter, jerking the venison by the fire like an Indian. Cold Mountain
+ But they were without God in the world; having cast off his fear, and the apprehension of his presence, and their accountableness, which often follow the dereliction of the divine institutions. Sermons on Various Important Subjects
The 18-month privatization process relicensed 26 cellular lines, 27 fixed lines and one long-distance company.
This is a relic of the days when you might have to roll them back to fight a duel. Times, Sunday Times
Later, in a memorial service for the disaster's victims, Gustav sought to spread a pall of general bafflement over events, including the government's dereliction.
At the strategic Bagram airbase, 20 miles north of Kabul, hundreds of soldiers trucked in late over the last few days were dispersed among the derelict airport buildings.
Today, pilgrims travel to Sergiyev Posad to venerate the saint's relics, and 300 seminarians study theology there.
At the end of the walk is a relic from the long-distant days when the pensionnat was a convent - an ancient, largely dead, pear-tree, nicknamed (for its age) Methuselah.
And for us to say it's just a few renegade soldiers, listen, I know that those were the ones on the photographs, but there were others who were derelict in their duty.
Home of the tooth relic sacred to Buddhists, it is a bustling grid of weird and wonderful shops and hotels.
He's charged with maltreating detainees, conspiracy to maltreat detainees, dereliction of duty and indecency.
The chthonic Dick Whitman still lurks in the shadows, threatening to resurface when others discover the secret box of relics. Janet Turley: Mad Men Season 4, Episode 6 -- Dissolving Identity and the Female Gaze
The kids who get up at midnight and head out to a derelict wall to begin working on a graffito are working within a demanding tradition that requires the sequence of execution to have been worked out in detail in advance, before any mark can be made. Now please pay attention everybody. I'm about to tell you what art is | Germaine Greer
The theatre has been left to stand/lie derelict.
He said that a new application was received by City of York Council yesterday to transform a derelict car park at the rear of the property to shopping space.
Equally, where derelict or neglected Green Belt sites could better serve the community for example, as a new school or surgery changes in designation could be sought after consultation.
The clean-up of the derelict factory site has stalled over minimum requirements. Times, Sunday Times
The castanet, it appears, had been secured too far past the waistband's single baby, though Daddy was not a tall mandarin, and the rosters chosen for their relic cleanliness were too long to provide adequate lighthouses unless pulled hard and with no letting up. Farouche
Somehow, though, the body and its components have recently gained the holy quality previously reserved for saintly relics.
That right there is what they call dereliction of duty where I come from, Pardner. hoho Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Just Reward
Hypothermia can occur in younger people with heroin overdosage, from severely low blood sugars, in mountaineers, after near drowning, or in a derelict found under a bridge after an alcoholic debauch.
In 1985, while studying at the J.illiard School, Mr. Benjamin made his second life-changing discovery: Through a convoluted series of personal connections beginning with his ex-bandsman grandfather, he was directed to a derelict warehouse in Asbury Park, N.J. Inside was the vast music collection of Arthur Pryor (1870-1942), one of the star band conductors of the Victor Talking Machine Co. (predecessor of RCA-Victor and BMG). Benjamin's Ragtime Band
The place was a relic, a museum piece, preserved like a man who stops shopping for clothes the day he retires and spends the next thirty years living in limbo and the same pair of nylon trousers.
Another factor helping to disseminate new types of building and decoration was the movement of pilgrims over the vast network of routes linking churches housing prestigious holy relics and shrines.
He says infantry that didn't keep moving and attacking would be accused of cowardice or dereliction of duty.
As a good father, a loyal friend and a committed lawyer who helped future generations to look back on the death penalty as a relic of history. Times, Sunday Times
The only regular visitors are the labourers and derelicts who drop in to spend some time before the radio kiosk or the television set.
They had driven in past derelict factories, ruined tenement slums. THE GOLDEN LION
It looked more like a relic than a harbinger of things to come. Times, Sunday Times
What's he hinting around at by that there word 'relict'? Ruggles of Red Gap
Further along, past the stoic old-timers playing bocci, and a wet-suited man struggling to rig up his windsurfer, a derelict concrete edifice looms high over the beach.
Long grass on each side of the street, a derelict and neglected building bereft of glass and doors.
The use and ceremonial procession of the relics paralleled the miraculous healings described in hagiographical sources. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Derelict inner - city sites could be sold off cheaply for housing.
Although relicensing of doctors is well established in the US, systems to evaluate competence rigorously are still some way off
There were still relics like this lurking in farm buildings when I started out on my agricultural life: I recall finding a woodworm-infected patten lying in the manger of a stable a week or so after the last draught horse had been put to sleep. Country diary: North Derbyshire
Its dereliction over the past two years had been a constant topic of conversation.
After saving the life of the President, two Secret Service agents find themselves abruptly transferred to Warehouse 13 – a massive, top-secret storage facility in windswept South Dakota that houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government. Sci-fi TV Preview: Warehouse 13 « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
Eerily empty travel zones are full of ice, gas, derelicts and asteroids of various types and colors.
When you poke about alongside a canal there are many lost and forgotten relics to be found of the old commercial nature of the place.
Stan Sesser The chorten (far left) is a tiny structure containing religious relics, where locals make offerings. The Road Through Bhutan
Another relic of Disney live action musical cheeriness from the ’60s. Weekly Mishmash: May 16-22 : Scrubbles.net
They apparently have holy relics stored in the crypt.
That site links the Proceedings of the Royal Society for the Advancement of Knowledge in the Natural Sciences, which gives a nice little overview of the history and legendry of jolly ol 'Saint Nick, and then proceeds to discuss his relics: Archive 2009-12-01
Relics from a golden age of flight when Zeppelins and airships ruled the skies have been on sale at a Swindon auction house.
Litter on our streets, anti-social behaviour, dereliction - we all know what is wrong with our town.
One pier is vibrant with candyfloss, arcades and people, the other stands derelict and rusty.
Fix up derelict houses and build affordable homes to the extent there is no shortage and prices will stabilise. Simples.
It was the last relic of the old system.
Though he can crawl, and may have clinging to him certain brute instincts that may be the relics of his anthropoidal days, he has also, thank God, divine desires and discontents, and certain rudimentary wings. Without Dogma
Prejudice against beards (pogonophobia) is a relic of an age when beards seemed shifty.
For many, religion per se has become a curious historical anachronism, a dated relic of the old days.
The likable performances still count for something, but the film's main asset now is its value as a relic. Times, Sunday Times
The plant has spawned human fatalities and engendered the strange fauna and flora found on the eerie headland where the derelict buildings remain. Times, Sunday Times
Most relics were credited with miraculous healing powers, while some were also invoked as guardians of justice. The Times Literary Supplement
Hand tools are relics of the past that have now been superseded by the machine.
We have been left a legacy of ugly, vacant and derelict land and also a hefty financial burden to clean it up.
Life has few direr disenchanters than the morning smells of obsolete tobacco, relics though they be of hesternal beatitude. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
Sometimes misinformation, exaggerated fictions and relics of wartime propaganda are reported in the media.
Harvard Sociologist David Riesman suspects that a majority of Americans have blithely taken to committing supposedly minor derelictions as a matter of course.
It's a felsenmeer (meaning "sea of rocks"), a relic of the glaciers, and is one of the unique features of the Blue Hills. TimesArgus.com: Sports
This program has been approved for 14 Approved Entity Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR. Feed of Eventbrite Events
Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics.
Couldn't you be accused of dereliction of duty?
A bunch of pot hunters who looted ancient relic sites and sold priceless artifacts for profit have received probation.
Relics from a golden age of flight when Zeppelins and airships ruled the skies have been on sale at a Swindon auction house.
In front of The Garden of Eden, a walleyed derelict bellowed: `It's all over. TALES OF THE CITY
The English word fetish can be traced back to the medieval Portuguese word fetich, which refers to religious relics believed to possess magical properties. Come Hither
First degree relics are remains of a saint's body or any of their body parts.
Etruscans in an art in which afterwards they attained to such marvellous perfection, and the only relics now remaining of the fictile statuary for which Veil was so celebrated. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
With the canonisation of the Confessor in 1161, his regalia gained the status of holy relics, further increasing the veneration with which they were regarded.
The commission found that each had been derelict in his duty.
July/August is the time of the Kandy Esala Perahera, the 10-day festival honouring the sacred tooth relic of the Buddha, and also the time for the Kataragama Festival in the South.
Unless you're the Rolling Stones, or one of those forgotten relics of the 1970s schlepping round the nostalgia circuit, you don't tour for profit; you tour to promote your latest release.
There is ground to conclude that they came down from mountains in the fact that the name "Accad" means "Mountains" or "Highlands," a name which they could not possibly have taken in the dead flats of Lower Chaldea, but must have retained as a relic of an older home. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
The family could not believe that the body was considered to be that of a derelict at the funeral home.
Curt Backa, whose game needs more than a ball change to improve, is a Tribune sports writer, copy editor and local kegling relic. Greatfallstribune.com - Local News
With old stone collected from derelict cottages on the edge of the village they built a circular garden.
Labourers can earn up to $5 a day digging up and selling fossils, and this has created a massive supply of black-market dino relics.
Luther lived at a time when the bible was only available in Latin, when the Church exploited people by selling holy relics for salvation.
An application has been lodged to turn a derelict printworks on Clare Street into six self-supported flatlets for 16 and 17 year-old boys who have recently left care or have problems living alone.
Two weeks ago an Anacreonian merchant ship came across a derelict battle cruiser of the old Imperial navy.
So the integrity of the Commission, the veracity of all the testimony it heard, and the legitimacy of its recommendations were, in fact, widely dismissed as hokum because it was clear to "everyone who could read the facts" (or hokum, which is it?) that the whole thing was Jamie Gorelick's fault? In Letter, Albright And Berger Demand Kean Get ABC To Kill Film
It is because of this slipshod attitude of the concerned agencies that the antiquities and the relics of distant past are easily accessible to not only all pervasive primates but to anyone who is interested to fritter or wipe out them.
We had been out filming the gwyniad - that unique fish which is a relic of the ice age - which only resides in Llyn Tegid. WalesOnline - Home
Thus the extra-tropical zone of former pronounced valley formation was dominated by relict landscape features both glacial and periglacial.
The wonder-working tour on which the monks sent their new relics certainly helped raise funds for their new abbatial church.
The only surviving Georgian house on the street was semi-derelict.
Property prices have collapsed and parts of the city are a scene of decay and dereliction. Times, Sunday Times
It is a relic of a bygone age, a cultural icon with a colorful political past.
Endemism is particularly high in 33 angiosperm and six gymnosperm, and fern families, most of which are ancient or primitive with restricted relict distributions. Queensland tropical rain forests
The blue-and-white pulled in past a rusting gas station that must have been a relic of the forties. FLOATING CITY
Her dress that day was typical: a derelict work jacket, a pair of pants with one leg ripped from hip to cuff, a too-large pair of overshoes with holes that showed her bare feet, a rag tied around her head.
You wouldn't believe the bureaucratic hoops you need successfully to jump when you're renovating a derelict.
And the charges he faces right now include assault, maltreatment, indecent acts, dereliction of duty, and conspiracy.
It was obviously using rolling stock left over from before unification and went through some very depressed areas with large tracts of unused land and derelict buildings.
But, unluckily for Beorminster, he was dead and his relict was a mourning widow, who constantly referred to her victim as a perfect husband. The Bishop's Secret
A Burnley resident is living in fear of her house going up in smoke after firebugs targeted neighbouring derelict properties.
The horses munched their grain, stamped and whiffled, and filled the derelict tavern with the pungent scent of their droppings. Conqueror's Moon
When it closed the canal was seen as a dirty, decaying relic of an industrial past, and it sank into decay and dereliction.
For some people, IA is old hat — a relic of the days when websites were mere collections of linked text files. Inkblurt · Explain IA and win a thousand bucks!
Two hours ago the last piece of furniture left the condo, the sleeper sofa I inherited with the place, an orange relic of the former owners.
The most prized among the relics is a picture of Tsong With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
Whatever the refurbishment cost the building cannot, must not, become another infamous centre of dereliction.
He pleaded guilty to wilful dereliction of duty.
‘The Chinese Government has never relaxed in its efforts to retrieve the lost cultural relicts from overseas, but for various reasons, the work has met with lots of difficulties,’ Wang said.
Hís rébus cógnitís ipse cum omnibus quí in náví relictí erant ad locum vénit; et sociós suós frústrá hortátus ut suá sponte redírent, manibus eórum post terga vinctís invítós ad návem reportávit. Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader
With the exception of D. corleyi, which is endemic to the coast of northern Spain, all are Macaronesian relicts with a highly fragmented distribution in the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands, and on the southern European coast.
His lambrequin mustache -- relic of a forgotten Anglomania -- had been profoundly black, but now, like his smooth hair, it was approaching an equally sheer whiteness; and though his clothes were old, they had shapeliness and a flavor of mode. The Turmoil
She rented a house next to a derelict building and battled constantly with damp for a year. Times, Sunday Times
Heshen Mansion in Chengde, to a certainty, is a historic and cultural relic, but its whereabouts keeps "unknown"a nd the sayings about its ruins are various.
Guiding a group of visitors in the exhibition house, Torihama suddenly stopped at a showcase that displays relics of the pilots.
Forus not to dothis would only endorse the proposition that the American electorate is intellectually obtuse and morallyderelict and we surround ourselves in a steel fortressof delusion and denial andany awareness of the grossest atrocities committed by leaders we choose. We Must Raise Our Voices for Our Country's Redemption
This must be coupled with the creation of an attractive environment, through the transformation of derelict sites.
The authenticity of the relics is open to doubt.
The presence of the relics of St. John hasn't transl ated into a tourist bonanza in any of these other resting places. Bulgaria Looks to John the Baptist to Resurrect Flagging Economy
The relict coastal barriers, typically up to 30 m above the general level of the coastal plain and up to 10 km apart, occur sub-parallel to the modern coastline, and to each other, and increase in age landwards.
Old relics dotted the entrance beyond; knots of yarn and wool rippled, brightly-colored etchings which reflected dully in the sepulchral gloom.
Existing derelict land is needed for greening the cities.
Do not be misled - Populism is not some kind of outworn relic of an agrarian past, an aberrant philosophy of the unwashed, bitter and resentful. Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
To win relicensing, owners had to accept tougher web filtering technologies, something industry sources believe was long planned.
The reason that SMT don’t give jot is because it is not their arses’ on the line at 2. 00am behind a derelict building with Billy burglar wanting to take their head off. Homo Electric « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Obsessive audiophiles are a relic of the 70's, like AM receivers and quadraphonic sound. Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
In a tool-shed at the bottom of the garden, lay the relics of building-materials, left by masons lately employed to repair a part of the premises.
Church ossuaries have had to be closed because little old ladies used to steal bones for lack of official relics, and put them in their homes.
Mount Tai, with its magnificence, precipitousness and natural beauty, is famous for its rich cultural relics.
In highly sheared rocks, relics of amphibolite-facies parageneses are lacking and the mylonite is made up of greenschist-facies mineral assemblages.
He's certainly slim, and he's also an exponent of positive thinking, judging by the way he saw potential in the near-derelict chapel standing in Essex.
This polemical work was nearing completion when Pascal had the joy of seeing his friends, the Duc de Roannez and the jurisconsult Domat, converted to Jansenism, as well as his niece Marguerite Perier, who had been cured of a fistula of the eye by contact with a relic of the Holy Thorn preserved at Port Royal. Archive 2008-06-15

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