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- The ancient man paused, winking dim. (10)
- Williams.—Music of the Ancient Greeks. (3)
- An ancient family to be so driven away! (4)
- They are for modern music and ancient. (10)
- Monro.—The Modes of Ancient Greek Music. (3)
- And she is blushless: ancient worship weeps. (10)
- An ancient city, Athens, as history teaches us. (3)
- Have any ancient Hebrew melodies been preserved? (3)
- This reviver of his ancient line must not be lost. (10)
- This class of instruments is of very ancient origin. (3)
- Percussion instruments of metal are of very ancient origin. (3)
- The ancient Trojans were fools to your father, Mrs. Underwood. (8)
- He was growing ancient, and gout narrowed the circle he whirled in. (10)
- Our aristocracy, brilliant and ancient though it was, merited rebuke. (10)
- And it certainly revived an ancient accusation against his countrymen. (10)
- Not much ahead of ancient Egyptians in spirituality or in priestcraft! (10)
- If he put to sea, he kept in sight of land, like the ancient navigators. (9)
- Old Mrs. Todhunter, an exceedingly small ancient woman, was also there. (10)
- Greek of the Asiatic ancient days of the beginning of the poetic chants? (10)
- She heard of Italy as of a distant place, known to her in ancient years. (10)
- There is comfort in exercise, even for an ancient creature such as I am. (10)
- An ancient, fish-like man came slouching down and took charge of the cutter. (8)
- For them he is an ancient wheel Spinning a knotted thread the livelong day. (10)
- Is there not some ancient story of a monstrous wretch baked in his own bull? (10)
- There was something solemn in the isolation of this infirm and ancient creature. (2)
- Ancient Trier and Mosel; Heidelberg and Neckar; Limberg and Lahn, ran guilty of him. (10)
- Out of the course of ancient ruts and grooves, It moves: O much for me to say it moves! (10)
- Sketches of our ancient wooden walls and our iron and plated defences line the panellings. (10)
- In the ancient city of Hohokus once stood a monument of colossal size and impressive dignity. (7)
- In the hired fly Sylvia pressed close to him, and held his hand beneath the ancient dust-rug. (8)
- The Countess spoke familiarly, but without any hint of an ancient acquaintance between them. (10)
- They talked of ancient inroads of the sea, none so serious as this threatened to be for them. (10)
- Unfortunately, we know little of the means of travel in ancient America, other than the names. (7)
- An Italian conservatory of ancient date is the one at =Palermo=, which was established in 1615. (3)
- Would Paris leave signs of an ancient vigour standing to vindicate dignity when her fall came? (10)
- Then, guide-book in hand, they would peer up at the gray remnant of an ancient order of things. (13)
- In ancient America the dog was a sacred animal, worshiped by all sorts and conditions of tribesmen. (7)
- No draperies, no pictures, no ornaments of any kind; but by the window an ancient golden leather chair. (8)
- She resumed her ancient intimacy with Austin easily, while she preserved her new footing with Richard. (10)
- Foreshortened to his view, it resembled somewhat, he thought, the short heavy blade of the ancient Roman. (1)
- Mr. Austin now devoted much of his time to the instruction of her in the ancient life of the Eternal City. (10)
- An ancient Hermitage has the light of the antique; the merit that it can grow to an extreme old age; a merit. (10)
- Even if she hated him, he at all events ought not to put himself in the wrong by neglecting this ancient rite. (8)
- They saw the cedar grey-edged under the moon: and Night, that clung like a bat beneath its ancient open palms. (10)
- The bay we had crossed in the twilight was an ancient mouth of the river, not navigable within the memory of man. (20)
- An immemorial crime is symbolized there, an ancient guilt; the Crucified One sighs across lands and ages to my ear. (12)
- The imitator fails invariably to catch the spirit of them, and in this instance is driven to an ancient subterfuge. (16)
- Professor Butcher also drew an ingenious parallel between the Sophists of ancient Greece and present-day journalists. (16)
- A single instance, a cant phrase, a fatherly manner, might have wrecked him, by arousing ancient or latent opposition. (10)
- My father leaned heavily on my arm with the step and bent head of an ancient pensioner of the Honourable City Company. (10)
- V Thou animatest ancient tales, To prove our world of linear seed: Thy very virtue now assails, A tempter to mislead. (10)
- Intemperate lover, of the ancient pattern, that he was, his aim to win the woman acknowledged no obstacle in the means. (10)
- All of us are led, like that ancient people Israel, like all humanity, by a way we know not, and a path we do not understand. (2)
- Peter was salaried by his Lordship, and that, in common with that of Parasite, he exercised the ancient companion profession. (10)
- The little model put another sweet into her mouth, and producing from her pocket an ancient leather purse, counted out her money. (8)
- They could hardly wait till they had supper before plunging into the ancient town, and they took the first tram-car at a venture. (9)
- Prof. Nupper, however, says it was the ancient Nevraska, the capital of Kikago, and geographers generally have accepted that view. (7)
- This was not so simple a matter as it might seem; for the ancient town had not yet quickened its scholarly pace to the modern step. (9)
- In all the ancient American political literature we look in vain for a single utterance of truth and reason regarding these matters. (7)
- Now and then at these times he brought out a faded Italian anecdote, faintly smelling of civet, and threadbare in its ancient texture. (9)
- These were the ancient, unalterable factors of human life; outside of them the multitudinous desires of men were shifting, trivial, little. (13)
- The peasant of our time is incomparably superior to the statesman of ancient America, yet he is unfit to govern, for there are others more fit. (7)
- He procured a posting-chariot, an ancient and musty, of a late autumnal yellow unrefreshed by paint; the only bottles to be had were Dutch Schiedam. (10)
- The christening duly took place, and the ancient sagamore was renamed Henri, after the King, and his chief squaw was christened Marie, after the Queen. (19)
- He is, in truth, a thinly-sealed volcano of our imperishable ancient father; and has it in him to be the multitudinously-amorous of the mythologic Jove. (10)
- He stood with his ancient nightgown flapping round his still more ancient legs, slightly shivering; then, pulling the door open, he looked forth. (8)
- It marks the beginning of the modern historical opera, the complete abandonment of classical and ancient history as the only appropriate material for Grand Opéra. (3)
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