treasure-troves

So what other treasure-troves stayed hidden behind the Iron Curtain?

Archive 2006-07-01 Jessica 2006

So what other treasure-troves stayed hidden behind the Iron Curtain?

Wow Jessica 2006

Yet this was not an eclecticism that, gifted with the power of a king, the dignity of a priest, and the discernment of a prophet, drew from the treasure-troves of European libraries only their choicest gems.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

She is their native land; but ah! their country has never opened her treasure-troves to them as to those with sympathetic and appreciative understanding of her characteristics, and many of them are as hazy as a foreigner as to whether it is the kooka-burra that laughs and the moke-poke that calls, or the other way about.

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

"Why, for the Golden North, for the land of the Midnight Sun, for the treasure-troves of the Klondike Valley."

The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

To hear them, you would think they had an exclusive option on the treasure-troves of the Klondike.

The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

Old bookstands were always attractive centers of interest to Theodore, and, among other treasure-troves, he brought home one day a boy of fourteen years, whose office it had been to watch the books.

Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

We now possess a magnificent musical vocabulary, a splendid musical literature, yet so accustomed are we to grand treasure-troves we perhaps prize them no more than the meagre stores of the past were prized.

For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Aubertine Woodward Moore 1885

Old bookstands were always attractive centers of interest to Theodore, and, among other treasure-troves, he brought home one day a boy of fourteen years, whose office it had been to watch the books.

Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1858

One day, as technology improves, and we explore some of these underwater treasure-troves, historians and archaeologists will be forced to rewrite world history and admit that many of the American Indians came from the east, as their traditions say, and not the west alone.

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