Is it surprising, then, that I live with these antiques of mine, poets far more inspiring than any of our day?
The fate of his collection of antiques caused him more disquietude.
The sale was over; but the most valuable antiques of all found no purchasers: they were left behind with Julia Templeton: only she could use them.
It was an ideal day for an auction, and farmers and townsmen came trooping from all parts of the country, for the Templeton antiques were to be sold.
And--I forgot--an Italian from Nortontown bought for a song the apple and chestnut crops, and busy third generation Americans loaded in the antiques and drove off with them to the city.
This place was found to be so dreadfully modern, that no hope of discovering antiques was left alive in their hearts.
Thus it transpired, that she secured several of the finest antiques in the house, because others knew nothing of their true records or had overlooked the objects because of their unattractive finish or form.
They attend sales of antiques and incidentally fall in love.
He had known nothing of the manner in which the antiques had been brought from the City and placed in the house, until afterward.
Yes, we have given several years to the study, already, and last Summer we went abroad to visit the best known places where antiques and collections were to be seen," replied Polly.
When the school-year ended, all these friends invited the two girls to join their party that was planned to tour Europe and visit noted places where antiques are exhibited.
Now it was an "Emporium" for all who needed second-hand furniture at a bargain; or for those who sought antiques of any kind, to add to their amateur collections.
The motley collection of antiques the girls had secured while abroad and had shipped home, arrived in due season and the cases were sent to Mr. Ashby's Shop.
But there are no antiques to be found in Rye, Portchester or Greenwich, in these days of amateur collectors hunting over those sections," remarked Mrs. Fabian.
Mr. Fabian had had a brilliant idea, too, after he heard his wife's story of the country auction where the oldantiques had been secured by Mrs. Tomlinson.
After Tom reached New York, there seemed very little time for Polly in which to hunt up antiques in the country, or to attend sales that were advertised at various places.
We'll beantiques ourselves before many years, and we'll want folks to be careful of us.
They visited the Cloister at Ephrata, the museum of antiques at Manheim, the beautiful Springs Park at Lititz, the interesting, old-fashioned towns scattered along the road.
Now, returning to the garden of the Magnificent Lorenzo; that garden was full of antiques and richly adorned with excellent pictures, all gathered together in that place for their beauty, for study, and for pleasure.
Not one of our imitators of antiques was superior to this Tommaso, of whom it has seemed to me right that record should be made, and the rather as he has passed to a better life, leaving name and fame for his ability.
So the company stayed on, and when the Antiques and Horribles passed again they were treated to pea-nuts and lemonade.
Then began the torpedoes, and the Antiques and Horribles had Chinese crackers also.
The boys were in the midst of nailing up all they had on the pillars of the piazza, when the procession of the Antiques and Horribles passed along.
Elkan flapped his hand wildly, but it was too late to prevent the entrance of no less a person than Jacob Paul--the connoisseur of antiques and fine arts.
Aside from his clothing, however, there was little to betray the connoisseur of fine arts and antiques in the person of Jacob Paul, who possessed the brisk, businesslike manner and steel-blue eyes of a detective sergeant.
That's quite a jump, from cloaks and suits to antiques already.
In fact I was told as much, though not perhaps in exactly those words, when antiques first became a vital issue in our domestic life.
If I had but been left undisturbed for half an hour or so I doubtless would have achieved a result which now after a lapse of thirty-odd years would have thrilled a lover of antiques to the core of his being.
Because there was a sale of Italian antiques billed for three p.
If the cardinal meant to use the young Florentine cavalierly, his punishment was immediate and poetic, for amid the antiques Michelangelo beheld a sleeping Cupid which he instantly claimed as his own work.
I figured he'd got his hands on some nice antiques and wanted an appreciative audience.
For instance, the house was filled with what the experts said were priceless antiques from Dutch New Amsterdam, of the period just prior to the British siege.
The Summerhouse," a talk by Marcus Whiffen, Williamsburg Antiques Forum, February, 1956.
The antiques of the Vatican were frankly repulsive to him.
We supplied the antiques used in furnishing Washington's kitchen there.
And that accounts for the price--genuine antiques are so rare and so sought for that the original would cost you many times the copy--and after all, you would be no better off when you had it.
Nor should one forget the shops in which antiques of merit in furniture, books and other articles may be found.
The shop keeper, a benevolent-looking, gray-bearded old gentleman, is an authority on antiques and shows us many curios of astonishing value.
Of course many fine antiques are their own sufficient excuse for exception from this rule.
Let the antiques which are but rags and tatters, however valuable for their design, hang in the museums, where they belong!
Two or three years ago one of the largest wholesale houses in New York, carrying a stock of half a million or a million dollars, had no antiques to show.
It was the most perfect of the antiques which adorned the Gallery of Versailles.
From particular passages in your letter, I clearly perceive your anxiety to be introduced among those valuable antiques which now adorn the banks of the Seine.
Among theantiques placed in it, I shall particularize N° 75.
In proportion to the dimensions of this apartment, which is considerably larger than any of the others, a greater number of antiquesare here placed, of which the following are the most pre-eminent.
It is unnecessary to expatiate on the advantages which the fine arts may expect to derive from such a repository of antiques in a capital so centrical as Paris.
Alas, my poor brother has spent so much time over his old antiques that he has lost his mind!
He bade us welcome and said that his friend the dealer was an Egyptologist whose guarantee was accepted by every museum in the world, and if we were in the market for antiques he would earnestly advise us to seek no further.
We liked Assouan because the weather was ideal (after the sand storm ran out of sand), the hotel was the best we had found in Egypt, and there were so few antiques that sightseeing became a pleasure.
I must say that I have never seen a boys figure so excellently wrought and in so fine a style among all the antiques I have inspected.
Now Bologna had brought all his antiques into this gallery, wrought with great beauty in bronze, and had placed them in a handsome row upon their pedestals; and they were, as I have said, the choicest of the Roman antiquities.
As it moved smoothly forwards, my cunning in its turn was amply rewarded, for this gentle motion made the figure seem alive; the antiques were left in the background, and my work was the first to take the eye with pleasure.
A lot of this stuff has been here for quite a while, and antiques of any kind tend to increase in value.
I hate to see him prostitute his talents the way he does by making these fake antiquesfor Rivers.
To sit in this room full of antiques in a frock-coat would be as bad a breach of good taste as the placing of a Victorian chandelier in an Elizabethan banqueting-hall.
Colonel Baxter was a collector of Colonial antiques and knick-knacks and the house was furnished with genuine old furniture that delighted his heart and kept the spirit of Colonial times in the mansion.
Peter Gruff was a second-hand dealer in Lynnwood whose hobby was picking up antiques at a ridiculously low price and selling them at fabulous sums.
The experiences of Belle that summer in hunting antiques in the Westchester Hill farms were most interesting, but no room can be spared in this book for the telling of her adventures.
Belle, who loved antiquesand vowed she was going to be a collector some day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antiques" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
