Ill-cured it was, and battered and marred with ancientness and rough usage.

And so we feel the weight of his Englishness, its texture, its ancientness.

Yet the streets were dirty, with a smell of ancientness that sickened me.

It is the ancientness of sharks that helps to enthrall and appal us.

Its ancientness, both of rooms and furniture, added to this feeling.

But it is a nearer ancientness that haunts it now.

Feel utterly depressed by weather and my general ancientness.

By daylight some of the horror goes, but the impression of ancientness and desolation remains.

It enhanced the feeling of age and ancientness.

The effect, in connection with the great panelled well of the staircase, is one of rich and goodly ancientness.

By the time she arrives in The Lonely City she has shed that burden of ancientness and long perspectives.

And the feeling of ancientness was in these passes which had been guarded against invasions for three thousand years.

Modern German taste in art, architecture and decoration do not harmonize with the ancientness and historic severity of Alsace.

Storm shifted in his seat, which creaked with the ancientness of wood that had held many bodies before his.

There were places on Grayson, like Protector's Palace, which were even older and possessed that same sense of ancientness.

Archaic, ancient beyond thought, it seemed-notwith the ancientness of things that for uncounted ages have been but wind-drivendust.