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Example sentences for "antique"

Lexicographically close words:
antiquarianism; antiquarians; antiquaries; antiquary; antiquated; antiques; antiqui; antiquis; antiquitate; antiquitatis
  1. However you have swallowed the grain after the antique fashion.

  2. As the tumult increased, by degrees her body followed her nose, until she came to the hoop of a cask, against which she so dextrously squatted that she might have been mistaken for a work of art carved in antique bas-relief.

  3. He has believed that nothing would be more amusing than the actual resurrection of this antique affair, wherein shines forth the illiterate simplicity of the good old times.

  4. It still stands, though ruined and dismantled, in one of those antique streets from which the old races of the Norman and the Spaniard have long since vanished.

  5. In stimulating the search for choice fragments of antique sculpture, the son of Lorenzo de' Medici but followed the course which his father had indicated, and which Julius had zealously pursued.

  6. Under such false training, knowledge received the impress of a languid conventionality; and even those who condescended to write in Italian, chilled their compositions with the pedantry of antique idioms.

  7. A large hair-cloth sofa of a heavy antique shape, confronted the eye from one side of the room, an equally ancient book-case from the other.

  8. The queen is costumed in a moire antique dress, of a showy color, hair hanging loosely over the shoulder.

  9. The empty hearse passed, grinding in low, bobbing and shaking on antique springs, a vintage Mercedes.

  10. His story of his escape on the night of Agamemnon's murder is as simple and grand in movement as that of figures in an antique bas-relief.

  11. Halls hung in damask, vast mirrors in carven frames, and stately furniture of antique form attested throughout the palace "the splendor of a race which, if its fortunes had somewhat declined, still knew how to maintain its ancient state.

  12. A girl who was working at the other end of the table said with a careless air, "They told me I might go up to the Antique to-day.

  13. Then you go into the life class, one of them, all the morning, and keep drawing from the antique in the afternoons, or else do heads from the model.

  14. Sometimes they even let you put in backgrounds here, but it don't matter much: when the instructor in the Antique gets hold of you he makes you unlearn everything you've learnt in the full-length.

  15. Then the antique mystery lurking in her face went out of it, and she became fin de siècle and romantic, and young ladyish, and uninteresting to Ludlow.

  16. Far better, for a solitary exercise, is the Indian club, a lineal descendant of that antique one in whose handle rare medicaments were fabled to be concealed.

  17. The flower-beds have been restored in the antique taste.

  18. Even today there remain pretty thickets, a fine greensward, avenues lined with great antique busts, while the chateau itself is almost intact.

  19. To the charm of the spectacle is added the charm of ancient names: the sinuous streets have retained their antique appellations.

  20. Here were formerly placed remnants of sculpture in the antique fashion, Marbles broken and dispersed without arrangement.

  21. There was an old favorite print that portrayed her, a slim wistful figure resting a pale hand on a mute harp, a great elk-hound at her feet on guard, and back of her the rising sun shone on the antique round tower.

  22. How modern it all sounded but for the strange antique names.

  23. On the spot itself there is nothing antique to see; but the drive or ride is one of the most remarkable in all the world!

  24. This hat may be an antique European one, or a bound-round handkerchief, but it is more frequently a confection of native manufacture, and great taste and variety are displayed in its make.

  25. When the first burst of Egaja conversation began to boil down into something reasonable, I found that a villainous-looking scoundrel, smeared with soot and draped in a fragment of genuine antique cloth, was a head chief in mourning.

  26. Thus, when in 1884 I got a commission to translate the Heptameron, I wrote quite naturally in the language of my favourite period, and, as some critics declare, made my English version somewhat more antique and stiff than the original.

  27. These are those grand seigneurs in the carrying line who sport ancient silk or beaver hats and wear broadcloth of an antique cut--broadcloth that was once black and hats that of old were glossy.

  28. Winchester, of the antique custom of inscribing trinkets with sacred symbols, and so converting them into amulets; a custom which the Greeks and Romans borrowed from the Egyptians, and which the early Christians perpetuated after them.

  29. Rare flowers bloomed in costly vases; ripe fruits blushed in gilded baskets; rich wines sparkled in antique flasks.

  30. It is maize-colored moire antique and mutton one day and violet- colored velvet and veal another; that is all!

  31. Her luxuriant form, arrayed in rich, soft, white moire antique and lace, was thrown into harmonious relief by the crimson velvet cover of the divan.

  32. I afterwards saw, in Mingrelia, a more ideal mould of feature, resembling the antique Apollo type: but there the expression was too effeminate; the heroic head of the dweller on the Kuban pleased me better.

  33. Not that we venture a careless or misgiving thought of the perfectness of those great antique works: their perfectness was according to their purpose.

  34. But Kabul is the name of an antique shrine in the city of Izamal.

  35. The whole resembled the form of the letter T, or some of those ancient dinner-tables, which, arranged on the same principles, may be still seen in the antique Colleges of Oxford or Cambridge.

  36. Count Platen, on the other hand, hung fluctuating between the antique Persian and German.

  37. Architecture has, it is true, abandoned the periwig style of France, but the purer antique or Byzantine taste to which it has returned is generally insipidly simple, while the attempts at Gothic and Moorish are truly miserable.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antique" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.