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  • The antiquary's is a vocation like another, and the highest kind of history can only flourish on condition that the humbler ancillary kind flourishes also, and that there are patient and scrupulous men to mark the difference between

    Voltaire 2007

  • Andrew Gemmels was the original of that Edie Ochiltree who was bold enough to dispute the antiquary's more learned assertions.

    English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

  • Will the Jesus we draw be an antiquary's Jesus -- an archaic figure, simple and lovable perhaps, but quaint and old-world -- in blunt language, outgrown?

    The Jesus of History T. R. Glover

  • The antiquary's predictions were founded on what Mr. Soloman Snivel had told him, and that gentleman got what he knew of Anna's history from

    An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

  • He had placed in a corner a dim pastel which they had seen together at an antiquary's, and which, for its shadowy grace, she called the shade of Rosalba.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • A certain writer on logic and metaphysics was once as much astonished as gratified by an eminent genealogical antiquary's expression of interest in a discovery which his last book contained.

    The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

  • Alexandria demurely leaning upon her spiked wheel, at a provincial antiquary's in Romagna, not far from where the ancona had been impiously dismembered.

    The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather

  • "At present these three drawings are at an antiquary's of Babuino, and very authentic."

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • It was too splendid in its enamelling, too subtle in the chiselling of its gilded silver to have slipped into the byways of the antiquary's trade with the consent of the

    The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather

  • I have sent a similar note to the Cercle de la Chasse, another to the bookshop on the Corso, another to your antiquary's.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

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