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‘I am sure,’ giggled Flora, tossing her head with a caricature of her girlish manner, such as a mummer might have presented at her own funeral, if she had lived and died in classical antiquity,
Little Dorrit 2007
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I mustered all my forces, in accordance with that splendid maxim of antiquity,
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On its being mentioned, that a present had here been made to him of a curious specimen of Highland antiquity,
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On the other hand, the influence of Aristophanes and of Lucian, his intimate acquaintance with nearly all the writers of antiquity,
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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On the other hand, the influence of Aristophanes and of Lucian, his intimate acquaintance with nearly all the writers of antiquity,
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For it's oft I've heard in history how heroes of antiquity,
The Cuckoo's Nest 1995
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Stimulated, no doubt, by the combination of chiaroscuro and antiquity,
John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen
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In the literature of our times, and in that of antiquity,
Speeches from the Dock, Part I Various
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I wish that any little thing I could write or say might cause it to stand better with the world at large than it has hitherto done: but I have slender hopes on this score; because old and deep-rooted prejudices are seldom overcome; and when I look back into the annals of remote antiquity,
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832 Various
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Those of Hierocaesarea exhibited claims of higher antiquity,
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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