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Ancient

adjective

Belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire. "Ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians" , "Ancient Greece"

Very old.

noun

A very old person. Synonym: antediluvian.

A person who lived in ancient times.

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... and stretched himself out upon an ancient charpoy furnished with many ancient cushions that ...

— The Way of an Eagle • Ethel M. Dell

... But the enslavement of the country, together with the counter-Reformation, suspended the Renaissance in mid-career; and what remains of Italian art is incomplete. Besides, it must be borne in mind that the confusion of opinions consequent upon the clash of the modern with the ancient world, left no body of generally accepted beliefs to express; nor has the time even yet arrived for a settlement and synthesis that shall be favourable to the activity ...

— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds

... is rather rare in Tarascon. Envy, base, malignant envy, is visible in the wicked curve of his thin lips, and a species of yellow bile, proceeding from his liver in puffs, suffuses his broad, clean-shaven, regular face, with its surface dented as if by a hammer, like an ancient coin of Tiberius or Caracalla. Envy with him is a disease, which he makes no attempt to hide, and, with the fine Tarasconese temperament that overlays everything, he sometimes says in speaking of his infirmity: "You don't know how that ...

— Tartarin On The Alps • Alphonse Daudet

... be all in all to thee, thou art most certainly on God's way; and thou art making progress toward thy home, albeit that it is unconsciously. Be of good cheer, Christ is the Way; remember the ancient pilgrims, of whom it is written, that the way was in ...

— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer

... his captor, relentless, masterful and cool, still forced him on. Down the slope toward the canyon they had come, every yard a fight, and now they were at the head of the draw that took the trail down to the only crossing of the canon, the northmost limit of the Pacer's ancient range. ...

— Wild Animals I Have Known • Ernest Thompson Seton

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