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

In the 1890s, antiquary John Buchanan saw "an entire mass of broken stones mingled with fragments of pottery" exposed when the railway line was cut through Castlecary fort.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2013

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

Professor Johnson, the antiquary, returning meditatively from a learned discourse, came upon the recumbent body of a man in front of a house.

From Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories by Chambers, F. W.