ancient
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Weaving legend into history, Law evokes the “indescribable charm which invests all ancient and historic places.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
El Adli said the area that crews were digging in is located on what is potentially an ancient floodplain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
It sounds like he’s talking about ancient history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
By comparing the genomes of three Clusia species, the team traced how ancient genome duplication followed by extensive genetic reorganization helped produce different forms of CAM.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Then there was a great heaving, and the humans were deposited on a wide piazza, surrounded on two sides by the wings of what looked to be an ancient stone library.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Vocabulary lists containing ancient
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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"The People Could Fly," Vocabulary from the folk tale
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