These, as a matter of course, the antiquary had noted, and had been struck by the curious way in which they differed from any text of the Vulgate that he had been able to examine.
I suppose I shall have to translate this,' said the antiquary to himself, as he finished copying the above lines from that rather rare and exceedingly diffuse book, the Sertum Steinfeldense Norbertinum.
The object which the antiquary had before him at the moment was that of tracing the whereabouts of the painted windows of the Abbey Church at Steinfeld.
The passage with which I began my story had set the antiquary on the track of another identification.
This valuable antique was purchased many years ago by a member of the present possessor's family, at the sale of the celebrated antiquary John M'Gowan, of Edinburgh, who considered it a most valuable gem.
Scenes so faithful to the shaft of a column,--dresses by which an antiquarycan define a date to a year!
They were undisturbed; and the experience of the old antiquary was "for this occasion only.
Indeed, we can place him to a dot, for the antiquary Rous is very precise in his statement.
Dead and gone, his name known to the local antiquary and appreciated by a few of the district, but never heard of beyond it.
Nevertheless, people should perform what they, promise,’ observed the antiquary severely.
The antiquary seized his hand with a warmth that he had never before exhibited, though he had loved him well, and bade him be seated.
The appearance of William Henry, who looked all youth and simplicity, instead of the snuffy oldantiquary whom they had expected to see, tickled them excessively.
I was not aware that Shakespeare stood in need of an advertisement, Mr. Harris,’ returned the antiquary grimly.
And the ground has been cut away from the first, you see, in all other directions,’ exclaimed the antiquary triumphantly.
By thinking of somebody else,’ returned the antiquary coolly: ‘that I have heard is the best way.
I did not expect the honour of a visit from Mr. Kemble,’ said the antiquary drily.
He cannot be persuaded that Æschylus was capable of writing a dull play; theantiquary prefers a torso of two thousand years old to a full-length figure by Canova.
The gentleman of considerable property in the Temple,’ as the antiquary had been wont to vaguely term him, had now grown as familiar to him as though he had had a name as well as a local habitation.
The antiquary paid him over that portion of money received from the Theatre which was due to William Henry, and requested him to place it in his hands.
Moreover,’ continued the antiquary with equal firmness, ‘it will not be sufficient that I myself should be convinced of its authenticity.
Directly the words were uttered, he perceived their application to the antiquary himself, who was quietly pocketing his own share of the wages of iniquity.
You wish to comprehend what these imperfect disclosures mean, and, as the antiquary endeavors to decipher the mutilated inscription on some old monument, you build up a history on a gesture or on a word!
Ought this sheet of old worm-eaten parchment to be of so much value to me, who am neither an antiquary nor a scholar?
Oldys the antiquaryin Winstanley's Lives of the most famous English Poets, states that the precise locality of his birth was East Smithfield.
The antiquary who launched this opinion was Scott's not very loyal friend, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
A learned Scots antiquary writes to me: 'The real ballad manner hardly came down to 1600.
I said nothing, but thought that the mild antiquary who sat with us at table might deserve a less terrible fate.
No antiquary has yet fairly appropriated these names, and more especially the second.
This is a volume in every respect interesting--both to the literary antiquary and to the Book-Collector.
Le Prevost is a belles-lettres Antiquary of the highest order.
To the eye of a tasteful antiquary this cannot fail to have its due attraction.
It is here that the tourist and antiquary may find objects for admiration and materials for recording.
An "Old English Poem" on our Henry the Fifth's "Siege of Rouen" is a theme likely to excite the attention of the literary Antiquary on either side of the Channel.
The face of the enthusiastic antiquaryflushed while I was lamenting it.
That labyrinths of some kind were also known in olden Denmark appears from the works of the seventeenth-century Danish antiquary Olaf Worm, one of whose woodcuts (Fig.
It was well known to John Aubrey, the antiquary and naturalist whose reference to turf mazes we have already quoted.
As an antiquary I had become intensely interested in the strange record, for it apparently threw an entirely new light upon the notorious Lucrezia Borgia, the woman who had brought secret poisoning to a fine art.
Thoresby, the Leeds antiquary of the end of the 17th century, found in the register of the parish of Rodwell, next to Leeds, a remarkable proof of the fatality of these agues, which fully bears out the general statements of Stow and Harrison.
It is now a venerable castle, and has been taken by an antiquary for one of King Arthur's.
A perfect specimen of the work is, however, preserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, to which it was bequeathed by the well-known antiquary Francis Douce in 1834.
Whence this remarkable race came, and what was its early history, are among those mysteries that meet us so frequently in the annals of the New World, and which time and the antiquary have as yet done little to explain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antiquary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
