Like many early antiquarians, he couldn't resist the temptation to improve the ruins. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Today, there's a trend toward decorating with such exotic, "antiquarian" - looking objects. From Wordnik.com. [RutlandHerald.com] Reference
Carlyle called the antiquarian or historical researcher "Dryasdust.". From Wordnik.com. [History and Literature] Reference
Also, Hone is engaged in long-term antiquarian research in British Library, probably begun as preparation for his announced (but never produced). From Wordnik.com. [Brief Chronology] Reference
We cannot fetishize "antiquarian" history as a solution to our problems, but it is a restraint upon despair or chaos. From Wordnik.com. [Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History] Reference
The word "antiquarian" in the directory had given me a notion. From Wordnik.com. [Kathleen] Reference
There’s a kind of antiquarian charm to your plaintive nativism, Raphael. From Wordnik.com. [Is It Offensive To Demand That Multiculturalism Mean Diversity? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
One more antiquarian discovery may here be noticed. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
My father has been an antiquarian bookseller for over 40 years. From Wordnik.com. [High-Fidelity Memories on Record Store Day] Reference
W. Hamilton an opportunity to display his antiquarian knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The antiquarian will read with pleasure the curious notes of Angelus. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
The place provides interesting material for antiquarian speculation. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Madras] Reference
Will any antiquarian inform us, if possible, why these bones were placed here?. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
This antiquarian society of garments, fit representatives to a stranger of the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
Dupin's shed, for all its antiquarian atmosphere, has strong links to Witmer's. From Wordnik.com. [Outer Sanctum: Why we love to step outside the box to think inside the shed] Reference
He was curious in antiquarian literature and a great importer of the older authors. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
In 1987, he realized a lifetime dream when he opened an antiquarian bookstore in Archer City. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet Lariat] Reference
London's history is indeed crowded, though (to the antiquarian) oddly short in its perspective. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914] Reference
He's a verra decent body -- a bit near maybe, an 'terribly superfeecial i' antiquarian knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
The antiquarian Ritson shall state the question to be brought before our honourable house of inquiry. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
At one end a bedstead stood, which an antiquarian would have accepted gladly as collateral for a loan. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
The son was educated at the Spalding Grammar School, and acquired antiquarian, tastes while yet a boy. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Quavale, an amateur antiquarian, with his servant, Jose, and a man by the name of Campbell, we set out. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
She recognized the spoon, a jewel which she had remarked the day before in the showcase of an antiquarian. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The last age was more antiquarian, more given to collecting, searching, and recording, than its predecessor. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
You can read about how Allegra Goodman's character, Jess, got her job at the antiquarian bookstore on our Web site, NPR. org. From Wordnik.com. [The Sense And Sensibility Of Goodman's 'Collector'] Reference
The antiquarian, Gervase Holles, gives, from the Harleian MSS., several other inscriptions, which no longer exist, but which are found in. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
The visitor to Woodhall, who has antiquarian proclivities, may well spend an enjoyable day at Lincoln, not only for the sake of seeing the. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
The wild, four-footed creatures also are in unusual variety; and within easy reach the antiquarian will find objects of very special interest. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
The proportion of the noble rooms, as well as the brick-work in front, well deserves the notice and study of the antiquarian and the architect. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Another letter (1) describes a visit to a country town, and shows the antiquarian spirit of the writer 'M. CAESAR to his M.STER M. FRONTO, greeting. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
But since then, and even since 1845, the date of the last volume, the thirst for antiquarian research has slaked itself at newly discovered sources. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
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