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Example sentences for "ancient city"

  • In an hour we saw in the woods on our right large mounds, indicating that here, too, had once stood an ancient city.

  • Behind it rose a high mound, surrounded by trees indicating that here too were the ruins of an ancient city.

  • And this well was not, as at Xcoch, the occasional resort of a straggling Indian, nor the mere traditionary watering-place of an ancient city.

  • YEZD, an ancient city, supposed by D'Anville to be the Isatichae of Ptolemy, is not called by Marco a kingdom, though having a better title to the distinction than some which he classes as such.

  • Calvi), an ancient city of Campania, belonging Originally to the Aurunci, on the Via Latina, 8 m.

  • Caiazzo), an ancient city of Campania, on the right bank of the Volturnus, 11 m.

  • CALAH (so in the Bible; Kalah in the Assyrian inscriptions), an ancient city situated in the angle formed by the Tigris and [v.

  • Caere vetus, see below), an ancient city of Etruria about 5 m.

  • City of Baal, or the Sun), an ancient city of Syria, 35 m.

  • AGRA, an ancient city of India, which gives its name to a district and division in the United Provinces.

  • ALBA LONGA, an ancient city of Latium, situated on the western edge of the Albanus Lacus, about 12 m.

  • Bender Eregli), an ancient city on the coast of Bithynia in Asia Minor, at the mouth of the Kilijsu.

  • Carsoli), an ancient city of Italy, on the Via Valeria, 42 m.

  • Only ruins remain of ancient city famous in Biblical history from time of Abraham's digging a well and planting a grove.

  • Ancient city of Philistia, frequently mentioned in the Bible.

  • Ancient city, known in the Bible as Zareptath.

  • That was an ancient city of the Daunii, but now it is of no account.

  • Of or pertaining to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus, having a celebrated temple of Venus; hence, pertaining to Venus, or her rites.

  • Of or pertaining to Ephesus, an ancient city of Ionia, in Asia Minor.

  • Troy, Troja, Ilium, ancient city of the Troad, i.

  • IV-37] The cura of Santa Cruz had once lived in Coban, some forty miles north of Rabinal, and four leagues from there he claimed to have seen an ancient city as large as Utatlan, its palace being still entire at the time of his visit.

  • Again, the written record of biblical tradition, unsatisfactory to some, when not supported by corroborative evidence, narrates with minute detail the history of an ancient city, including its conquest at a given date by a foreign king.

  • Its site is that of an ancient city, Martok, founded in the remotest periods of the primitive Africans, or aboriginal Berbers, in whose language it signifies a place where everything good and pleasant was to be found in abundance.

  • Ajmere, the capital, an ancient city, a favourite residence of the Mogul emperors, is 279 miles S.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancient authors; ancient buildings; ancient church; ancient city; ancient civilization; ancient date; ancient family; ancient glass; ancient languages; ancient learning; ancient name; ancient people; ancient philosophy; ancient religion; ancient sculpture; ancient time; but owing; commonly found; curious look; distant lands; ere long; ever laid; made either; reverse order; this moment; working model