The great square or market-place is a remarkable spot, surrounded by a heavy massive piazza, over which rise black buildings of great antiquity.
It was in former times a place of considerable commerce; and near its port are to be seen the ruins of a farol, or lighthouse, said to be of great antiquity.
The names humulus and lupulus also are of no great antiquity.
Many of them cannot be of great antiquity; and the uncertainty is increased by some of the editions differing from each other in important passages.
The exhibition of balls and cups, which is often mentioned in the works of the ancients as the most common art of jugglers, is also of great antiquity.
According to Scaliger[79], they are of great antiquity, because they are to be found on very old gems and rings.
With regard to the public lighting of whole cities on festivals, and particularly on joyful occasions, which we call illuminations, that practice seems to be of great antiquity.
There is a hermitage cave of great antiquitycarved in the perpendicular face of the rock just above the river, and known as the "Giant's Hole.
Liverpool is of great antiquity, but in the time of William the Conqueror was only a fishing-village.
The ruins, which are of great antiquity, cover considerable surface, the walls being ten or twelve feet thick, and the keep rising high upon the top of the hill, nearly one hundred feet in diameter.
Neath is of great antiquity, having been the Nidum of the days of Antoninus.
The town's-people preserve some customs here that smack of great antiquity, and seem peculiar to the county of Sussex.
Being an officer of great antiquity, he is not bound to collect any but old rents, which were payable before the eighteenth year of Edward the First.
The practice of New Year’s Gifts is of great antiquity in this country.
It is evidently of great antiquity; and the fact of its being performed in similar manner in the extreme northern and western parts of the country, a considerable part indeed being nearly identical, tends to prove this.
Petrobium is one of three genera, remains of a group probably of great antiquity, of which the two others are Podanthus in Chile and Astemma in the Andes.
Mauritius and Bourbon are lofty volcanic islands, evidently of great antiquity.
But when we consider that this northern element is chiefly represented by remote generic affinity, and has therefore all the signs of great antiquity, we find a possible means of accounting for it.
One small painting is ascribed to St. Luke, and several have the frames set with jewels, and are of great antiquity.
The Jacobites, the Sabaeans, and the Christians of St. John, who inhabit the banks of the Euphrates in the districts of the ancient Susiana, all have fortified monasteries which are mostly of great antiquity.
In the library they had no great number of books, and what there were were all Russian or Bulgarian: I saw none which seemed to be of great antiquity.
The binding is very curious: it is entirely of silver gilt, and is of great antiquity.
Though the place is of great antiquity, the Roman road running near it, few remains of any interest exist.
The form of Spanish dances has hardly changed; some of them are of great antiquity, and may be traced back with hardly a break to the performances in ancient Rome of the famous dancing-girls of Cadiz.
The town is of great antiquity, although with as few remains as most flourishing towns built of brick, where manufactures have chased away mansions.
St. Peter's Church, largely restored by Lord Grimthorpe, is therefore of great antiquity as a foundation; the present structure is chiefly late Perp.
The manor of Graveley is of great antiquity; it was given by William I.
The original structure was of great antiquity, dating from pre-Norman times; but it was wholly rebuilt early in the reign of Henry III.
The town is of great antiquity; the Saxon Kings, who called it Heathfield (the Hetfelle of Domesday Book), owned the manor until it was given by Edgar to the monks of Ely.
The birth of the art of healing goes back to a period of great antiquity.
The Treacle of Andromachus the elder, a recipe of great antiquity, contained sixty-three ingredients; and the celebrated Mithridate of Damocratis contained forty-eight.
But it is to Greece that we have to look for the birth of medical art in the West, its practice by the priests being of great antiquity.
It shows signs of great antiquity, having been twice repaired, and a large accumulation of broken pottery was found both outside and within it.
Even these Californian remains do not exhaust the proofs of man's great antiquity in America, since we have the record of another discovery which indicates that he may, possibly, have existed at an even more remote epoch.
Similar mounds, on even a larger scale, occur on the sea-coasts of various districts in Europe and America, but they afford no indication of their date beyond that of great antiquity.
There are also +walls+ of great antiquity in various parts of Europe, intended for fortification; the most important of these in Greece and Italy will be referred to in later chapters.
There is not a single architectural monument of imposing size or of great antiquity, so far as we know.
This is, I am confident, a tradition of great antiquity, for all its elements are of a very ancient or singularly witch-like nature.
That this is of great antiquity is clear, for out of this enchanted forest of Italian witchcraft and mystical sorcery there never yet came anything, great or small, which was not at least of the bronze, if not of the neolithic age.
This art, however, is of great antiquity, and appears to have been brought to Europe from the East.
No drawings in manuscripts, where the authors appear with quills, are of great antiquity.
It is not of great antiquity; for before the invention of our paper it would not have been a very productive source of finance.
The use of dice in England is of great antiquity, dating from the advent of the Saxons and the Danes and Romans; indeed, all the northern nations were passionately addicted to gambling.
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