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
John Audley replied arrogantly--at this moment he was an antiquary and nothing more.
From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman
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
The gentry on whose lands it stood – some of whom were important antiquaries, collecting and preserving the inscribed stones that were found along it – were beginning to make serious money from coal and steel.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2013
But Newcastle's antiquaries retain a youthful curiosity and zest.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2013
Its history has been carefully compiled by Norrisson Scatcherd, in 1843, by John W. Walker, F.S.A., in 1890, and it has received the consideration of other antiquaries.
From Old Church Lore by William Andrews
