Vocabulary Word
Word: antique
Definition: made in an earlier period and usu. valuable; N: object that was made in an earlier period and that is rare or valuable
Definition: made in an earlier period and usu. valuable; N: object that was made in an earlier period and that is rare or valuable
Sentences Containing 'antique'
The mathematical relationship of these quantities is a subject that has always fascinated scholars, who have measured the antique statues accurately and painstakingly to find the secret of their charm.
It is an antique style, older than Greek or Egyptian.
In these antique interjections lay poison and bitterness for the other old pilots, and they used to chaff the`Mark Twain'paragraphs with unsparing mockery.
He then drew from his sack a curiously wrought antique pipe, and having filled it with tobacco, rendered mild by a mixture of certain leaves, handed it to his guest.
The door giving access to the minaret is framed by a lintel and jambs made of recycled carved friezes of antique origin.
Mrs. Lawver, a doll collector, presents to Rogers her collection of antique dolls.
The Molitor Stradivarius is an antique violin made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona in 1697, the very beginning of the maker's celebrated "Golden" period.
This prize enabled him to travel to Paris, Italy and Greece where he could admire masterpieces of antique architecture.
The match ball is replaced by Wales's "lucky ball", an antique taken from the Welsh Rugby Museum by Price.
The damaged and antique black granite statue of Bhagavan Mahaveer is placed just behind the existing main deity in The Jain temple.
There are sketches of Rome and studies of antique figures drawn by Winstanley.
Georgano was awarded the "Thomas McKean Memorial Cup" of the Antique Automobile Club of America.
The interior is finished in antique oak, and the walls are painted in hues of brown and yellow.
Because old road cars are used up in folkrace, retro and antique car enthusiasts talk about "the folkrace death": Folkracing does away with many cars that are too old to be considered usable for everyday driving but too new to have reached the status of a "veteran" or "antique".
Manning has a museum that is home to many pieces of antique farming equipment, vehicles and other extraordinary items, like the albino moose.
Her costume contains many details lifted directly from antique Smoking Cars.
Outside the new museum are antique farm equipment and machinery on display, along with picnic areas and walking trails.
America's Packard Museum and the Fort Lauderdale Antique Car Museum hold collections of Packard automobiles.
The ruins of an antique and medieval fortress.
His career first began as an antique dealer before becoming a sculptor in 1986.
Under this guidance, he devoted himself to the study both of the antique and of living models.
In the course of several years after his travel in 1903-1904, Roerich repeatedly pointed out the state of antique monuments.
John the Forerunner Church at Yaroslavl: “Who would defense a beautiful antique from mad pogroms?
But it is more terrible when the antique remains disfigured, false, imitation…”.
The next day, the now-human Lawrence goes to Gwen's antique shop for help.
31BW was also sold, and it now functions as a restaurant in Tyabb's antique village, near Tyabb Station on the Stony Point Line.
Goods including 100 antique gold snuff boxes worth around £5 million were stolen.
Sandwich is home to numerous art galleries, rare book and antique stores.
It does retain certain value as an antique, and from a survival standpoint can be desirable as a hunting weapon.
After working as the Inspector of Libraries at the Ministry of Culture he was a director for the Department of Culture, Antique Works and Libraries at the same ministry.
He continued as the General Director of Antique Works and Museums, board member of Culture Training and for the second time as the Director of the Ethnography Museum.
He was also a big-game hunter, horse breeder, and a collector of antique cars.
In 2011, he opened an antique/memorabilia store in East Greenwich Rhode Island where he lives.
Surrounding the "bassin" on the raised balustraded terraces are a series of statues of former French queens, saints and copies after the Antique.
While his style was described as "rugged" and "chunky", and evoked antique ideals as patriotic works, his female figures were characterized as buxom, wearing diaphanous clothing.
His writing was so prolific, that many of his letters can still be found in antique shops from London, to Halifax to New York City.
Many of the older pieces are still in existence and are desirable as an antique or collectible item.
His first known work of sculpture in marble, it was sculpted when he was 15 or 16 as a copy of an antique work with some minor alterations.
Redpath retired from Test cricket in order to devote himself full time to proprietorship of an antique business in Geelong.
He is now retired from the antique business, but remains active at the Geelong Cricket Club.
Under his direction Faulkner devoted himself to assiduous study of the first principles of the art and spent upwards of two years in the study of the antique alone.
Slowly, however, the antique-hunting attitude toward Egyptian monuments gave way to careful study and preservation efforts.
Both buildings have features such as original fireplaces, antique wall hangings and ceiling decorations.
In the meantime, Easby became a major art and antique collector, who inherited more than 100,000 antiques and personal items, many of which had been in his family for centuries.
Among many of the antique watches and clocks left to Easby, one was made for the 18th-century Queen Marie Antoinette of France.
Easby was also a collector of antique cars.
The lake is surrounded by antique-style streetlights, textured walkways, and formal gardens maintained in the Italian Renaissance-style.
These antique cameos, some more than 2000 years old, are either displayed in museums or are in private collections.
Antique hip flasks, particularly those made of silver, are now sought-after collector's items.
When he meets her later in an antique shop she is not the ogre he remembers.