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Example sentences for "ancient buildings"

  • On an elevated spot at the extremity of a promontory, advancing into the lake, stands a chapel, around which are many ruins of ancient buildings.

  • Remtha, are some remains of the foundations of ancient buildings.

  • In an hour and ten minutes we reached Nahle; two hours and forty minutes the village Meghara [Arabic], with many remains of ancient buildings.

  • The pamphlet practically suggested the establishment of the Society for the preservation of ancient buildings, which has since come into operation.

  • It was not long after the formation of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings that he began to show himself a rebel in more than words against existing social laws.

  • But first--may we place windows in ancient buildings at all?

  • What, then, in detail, are the rules that must guide us in placing windows in ancient buildings?

  • In prosecuting it, the Spaniards encountered vestiges of ancient buildings raised on terraces, deserted and overgrown, and apparently very ancient.

  • In the wall of the hacienda were sculptured ornaments from the ruins of ancient buildings.

  • In our desolate and wandering path we had seen in different places, at a distance, and inaccessible, five high mounds, holding aloft the ruins of ancient buildings; and doubtless there were more buried in the woods.

  • Several of these places we had visited; we had seen their churches reared upon the ruins of ancient buildings, and in their immediate vicinity vestiges and extensive ruins of the same general character with those at Uxmal.

  • At Shrewsbury or Tewkesbury there are very few mock antiques, and at every turn and corner there are ancient buildings to carry our fancy back to the important historical events that have happened in these places.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancient and modern times; ancient city; ancient civilization; ancient coins; ancient date; ancient days; ancient history; ancient lineage; ancient music; ancient name; ancient people; ancient religion; ancient sculpture; ancient temple; ancient times; ancient writers; another land; good illustration; hath promised; knop under two branches; living forms; otherwise provided; share the; study the; thousand pieces; yard line