antiquary
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James, the English antiquary and ghost-story writer, to whose work I am devoted.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2021
Yet Irwin is hardly a dry-as-dust antiquary, and “Wonders Will Never Cease” frequently reveals the wide range of his reading: His description of the world’s end was obviously adapted from H.G.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2017
Hingley writes of the 19th-century Newcastle antiquary John Clayton, who bought as much as he could of the land through which Hadrian's wall ran, and rebuilt tracts of it.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2013
Among the many strange sights that evening were parliamentary records being flung from windows, while the antiquary Thomas Phillipps ran about picking them up from the cobbles.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012
Very likely Lord Burghley gave Fenner’s selection to the great antiquary.
From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley
With knowledge under siege, antiquaries of that time were the last defense against the destruction of books.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2020
Wilson structures “A Magical World” as essentially a series of lightly sketched biographies of the era’s most prominent theologians, philosophers, physicians, cosmographers and antiquaries.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2018
But Newcastle's antiquaries retain a youthful curiosity and zest.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2013
For centuries "stained drawings" had been the approved means for antiquaries, topographers and military men to map the lie of the land.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2011
The history of the amphitheatres is given very minutely by Friedlænder, who, like nearly all other antiquaries, believes this to have been the first of stone.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
