The custom among Eastern women of staining their nails red with the juice of henna-leaves dates from a remote antiquity, as ancient Egyptian paintings and mummies show.
It has no resemblance to the Semitic name, and dates perhaps from a remote antiquity.
Their modes of cultivation, and the figures on the monuments, show that their knowledge of the plant dated from a remote antiquity.
Though the origin of this law goes back to a remote antiquity and is involved in obscurity, it seems to have been originally simply a matter of social agreement.
There are many such beliefs, the origin of which is lost in a remote antiquity.
An assembly of the tribe must also have existed, from a remote antiquity.
The facts and circumstances belong to a remote antiquity.
The extreme simplicity of this indispensable piece of household furniture justifies its reference to remote antiquity.
But perhaps the most interesting of all the temple groups of the Hebrides, is one which furnishes the same indisputable evidence of remote antiquity to which repeated reference has been made.
But altho the minstrels may have taken over this effective trick from the circus, with which some of the earlier performers had had intimate relations, the trick itself is of remote antiquity.
The same writer adds:--"In no case did a person marry one of the same family, even though the relationship was lost in remote antiquity.
The shape, size, and general character of the skulls alleged to be of such remote antiquity give no countenance to the theory of man's brutal origin; which is the great thing to be gained by giving him a remote antiquity.
The evidence for the pre-Adamite antiquity of man is only a gathering of facts doubtful, and wholly indeterminate, without any element of proof of remote antiquity.
But though the motif may not have been a common one in heroic poetry--as compared with sagas relating to the Viking Age--there can be no doubt that the belief in shape-changing goes back to a remote antiquity.
Two of them, Deor and Widsith, are expressed in the first person and lay claim to being of a remote antiquity.
As for the Catalogue it belongs to a class of poetry of which the beginnings may go back to a remote antiquity.
In remote antiquity, star-worship prevailed throughout Arabia and one of its great centres was the flourishing land of Saba or Sheba, whose queen visited Solomon at Jerusalem.
The nearest approach to it among the nations of remote antiquity got no farther than the recording of the personal deeds of individual kings.
To be sure, the exact chronology of remote antiquity is not by any means as fixed and secure as might be desired.
But when his imagination is moved by the thought of Rome, of Italy, of a remote antiquity, of human affection, of the unseen world, then his art becomes truly and vividly creative.
The scientific study of human development also tends more and more to awaken interest in a remote antiquity.
Boxes of elaborate workmanship, made of precious woods finely carved and inlaid with ivory, are also preserved in the different museums of Europe, all dating from a remote antiquity.
The origin of Hindu medicine is lost in remote antiquity.
More numerous than the tanners in Egypt were the potters, among whom the pottery-wheel was known from a remote antiquity, previous to the arrival of Joseph from Canaan, and long before the foundation of the Greek Athens.
They are supposed to have been built at a remote antiquity, between two thousand and three thousand years before Christ.
There is no indication in what Cæsar says that in his time this movement was one of remote antiquity.
In their histories generally, the monarchy goes back to the Gaelic invasion, and Tara is the seat of the monarchs in remote antiquity, as it actually was in the early Christian period.
When Irish traditions began to be written, the Ogham alphabet was thought to be of remote antiquity, its invention being ascribed to the eponymous god Ogma.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "remote antiquity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
