ancientness

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“Your father had twenty-two registered ancestors, had your father,” old Guardian says, “and in him was the best bull-terrier blood of England, the most ancientest, the most royal; the winning ‘blue-ribbon’ blood, that breeds champions.

From The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys by Davis, Richard Harding

The ancientest house, and the best for housekeeping in this county or the next, and though the master of it write but squire, I know no lord like him.

From Bracebridge Hall by Irving, Washington

Not now, not now, Nor yesterday, But long ago Has that day worn by, That ancientest time, The first time to tell of, Then, whenas Gudrun, Born of Giuki, Whetter her sons To Swanhild's avenging.

From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by Morris, William

"Four of the ancientest, soberest, and discreetest of the brethren, chosen for the occasion, shall regulate it."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

Dark eyes shone above, fresh and dewy with love and youth, and smiled out with all ancientest witcheries and allurements in their depths.

From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank