Ancient In A Sentence

Definition of Ancient

• I follow the ancient practice of knights-errant, who changed their names at pleasure.
• For any parallel to her power and possessions you must go back to ancient Rome.
• It is an ancient house, and the people know us, and have a cheery word and a home look.
• Paris has been compared to ancient Athens; it may be compared with modern London.
• He asked the ancient domestic what lady was in the habit of rambling about this part of the chateau at night.
• We generally sat in the parlor looking towards the street and the square tower of an ancient church.
• Even those who professed to translate new works of ancient learning were generally wholly unfit for the task.
• Fuatino was nothing else than an ancient crater, thrust upward from the sea-bottom by some primordial cataclysm.
• The two gentlemen are at the present moment standing before the table, which is covered with all sorts of ancient coins.
• Round about the walls hung ancestral pictures, with clusters here and there of ancient weapons of strange shape and construction.
• It was the ancient masculine delusion, as invulnerable as truth, that the impersonal interests are the significant ones.
• Memories of their ancient inmates seem to hang gloomily about them, like the cobweb in their corners; they are eloquent of desertion and of death.
• A transient cult sprang up among the Javanese populace as the ancient sanctuary revealed itself anew.
• The land, cut up into colored fields, recalled the heraldry of the signboard; this also was at once ancient and gay.
• Every trace of the ancient structure has disappeared, and the square is surrounded by Turkish mosques and houses.
• He took us about his drawing-room, showing us the pictures, and finally stopped before a rude and ancient engraving.
• The old hall in which we dined echoed to bursts of robustious fox-hunting merriment, that made the ancient antlers shake on the walls.
• Below, the top of an ancient altar with the broken symbol of a sun upon it; above, florid and fantastic arabesques.
• I observed smoke, however, rising from the chimneys; a phenomenon rarely witnessed in the ancient establishment.
• She settled the date for us, and did it with certainty, by help of a couple of uncommon circumstances, events of that ancient time.
• A green vine, growing out of an ancient yellowed marble jar, wandered at will across one wall and up the brick of the chimney-place.
• The puzzle about 'Not-being' appears to us to be one of the most unreal difficulties of ancient philosophy.
• It was the oldest part of the chateau, and had in ancient times been the Donjon or stronghold; of course the chamber was none of the best.
• The failure of Plato and other ancient philosophers to construct a Theodicy, not a ground of despair.
• The failure of Plato and other ancient philosophers to construct a Theodicy, not a ground of despair.
• Those scraps which he had put into my hand were ancient newspaper copies of that "Christian Union" article!
• In this particular, as well as in most others, Spinoza merely reproduces the error of the ancient Stoics.
• Thus in the ancient world whole schools of philosophy passed away in the vain attempt to solve the problem of the continuity or divisibility of matter.
• They were led up by a venerable old man and an ancient matron, to whom the occasion had given more agility than might have been expected from their years.
• Though this doctrine is now obsolete in the civilized world, it was employed by a large portion of the ancient philosophers to account for the origin of evil.

• The most ancient book in the world.
• A citizen of ancient faith and virtue!
• It is situated on the heights of ancient Tusculum.
• A "most ancient and fish-like smell" pervaded the place.
• This was a favourite opinion with many of the ancient philosophers.
• We beg a little independence; and we are answered with ancient jests.
• Her dress was of an ancient fashion, ample in volume and sweeping the floor.
• Margareth, our ancient nurse, came for me at half-past eight.
• In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways.
• The young Vicomte was a Protestant; of ancient family and limited means.