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Ill-cured it was, and battered and marred with ancientness and rough usage.
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And so we feel the weight of his Englishness, its texture, its ancientness.
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Yet the streets were dirty, with a smell of ancientness that sickened me.
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It is the ancientness of sharks that helps to enthrall and appal us.
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Its ancientness, both of rooms and furniture, added to this feeling.
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He took particular delight in pursuing any difficult inquiry in classical antiquity.
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The origin of the city is lost in the mists of antiquity.
3
The honored antiquity of it is preserved in the anonymous English couplet:
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Further, as the priesthood excels in dignity, so it precedes in antiquity.
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The belief in the evil eye came into Europe from pagan antiquity.
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But it was a sacred emblem in the dateless antiquity of Egypt.
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The shades of the heroes of antiquity hovered over the revolutionary assemblies.
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In the more remote ages of antiquity, the world was unequally divided.
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First, the antiquity of its lineage; secondly, the antiquity of its self.
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Continuing, the same editorial called attention to the antiquity of the institution:
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The rocks are probably Silurian; and if so, of quite immeasurable antiquity.
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Men have a natural veneration for antiquity, especially in matters of religion.
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We know as yet little of the development of industry in antiquity.
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Very many of the errors of antiquity have re-appeared in our times.
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The antiquity of our former worship is still venerable in my eyes.
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He acknowledges as incontestable the superiority of the poets of classical antiquity:-
