Frank was an avid antiquary. From LearnThat.org.
Paris a work of high value to the architect and antiquary. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
The antiquary draws a chair and seats himself beside Anna. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
If this antiquary could have shown that the volcanic paroxysms of. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
BAKER, THOMAS (1656-1740), English antiquary, was born on the 14th of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Fergus Macmanus, bank manager, amateur antiquary, and President of the. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Alexandre Dumas, or even of that indefatigable Jesuit antiquary Claude. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Florence, where our young antiquary had free access to the stores of the. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
But my friend, the pottering old antiquary, gave me something of a surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
In the time of Leland, the antiquary (circa 1550) it was known as the Lindis. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
To be an antiquary is one thing, and to be an antiquarian romancer is another. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
They are mentioned in a letter from Sir Thomas Browne to Dugdale the antiquary. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
Mummius, another antiquary, quarrels with him, and the goddess reconciles them. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
He's a warrum-hearted body, an 'he kens that I'm a bit of an antiquary mysel'. '. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Annius, an antiquary, begs to have them made over to him, to turn into virtuosos. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
We have the testimony of the celebrated antiquary, Winkleman, to the interest of this subject. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Sir Arthur was something of an antiquary also, but far less learned and serious than Mr. Oldbuck. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
ALEXANDER MACDONALD, well known to the public as an antiquary, died early in January at Edinburgh. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
From the outside the building was everything that could possibly be desired by bibliophile or antiquary. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
He laboured in the investigation of the problems of his own age with the cold diligence of an antiquary. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
Robert White, an indefatigable antiquary, and pleasing writer of lyric poetry, is a native of Roxburghshire. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Once a Cinque Port of the first magnitude, Winchelsea is now an inland resort of the antiquary and the artist. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Martin Folkes was a mathematician and antiquary of much celebrity in the philosophical annals of this country. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
Châtellier, a proprietor and antiquary of this country, has built a house for painting and enjoying the scenery. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
Henry Spelman, was the third son of the distinguished antiquary, Sir Henry Spelman, of Conghan, Norfolk, England. From Wordnik.com. [Colonial Records of Virginia] Reference
An accomplished antiquary, and writer of verses, William Dobie was born in 1790, in the village of Beith, Ayrshire. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Ought this sheet of old worm-eaten parchment to be of so much value to me, who am neither an antiquary nor a scholar?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Introducing the letters in which the antiquary disclosed the successful result of his investigations, Mr. Kellogg says. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Father Herodotus, credulous as he was, was a better antiquary than any who wrote in Latin before the revival of letters. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Hearne the antiquary, and others, who provided old chronicles and books of the class chiefly esteemed by the book-hunter. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
There was a farmer Lawrence of 70 in Willesdon at the time, but I have found no direct connection with an antiquary, with. From Wordnik.com. [A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727)] Reference
It was in this latter county that he became a learned antiquary, and a careful recorder of events that came under his notice. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
Will any antiquary versed in Celtic customs explain whether this claim of possession grew out of any Celtic usage of tenancy?. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
They had previously been visited by another antiquary (Mr. John Carter) in 1797 and 1808, when there was a little more to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
So runs a pretty story, which is, however, demolished with the ruthlessness that comes so easily to the antiquary and philologist. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
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