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
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
The poet once left our office in company with a well-known antiquary of our neighborhood, since deceased, and who was as absent as Mr. Bowles himself.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
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
Architects and antiquaries had been arguing over these matters since early Victorian times.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 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
Henry VIII.’s chaplain, John Leland, is the father of English antiquaries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various