Relics

Examples

• Yet they all had lived and died unconscious of the different fates awaiting their relics. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In a tool-shed at the bottom of the garden, lay the relics of building-materials, left by masons lately employed to repair a part of the premises. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Nay, tell me how you class your wealth of books The drifted relics of all time. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• These relics have a history then? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Many relics of the inhabitants have been found in these cliff dwellings, although we cannot tell how they lived, for the region is now rainless and therefore destitute of food plants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There is no hint of an enemy or competitor to them in the relics we find of their world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But there was no magic in the relics and little conviction about the chanting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Miss Havisham had settled down, I hardly knew how, upon the floor, among the faded bridal relics with which it was strewn. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• All these relics gave to the third storey of Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine of memory. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There was nothing else to do, and so every body went to hunting relics. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They are relics of the grandeur of Genoa's palmy days--the days when she was a great commercial and maritime power several centuries ago. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• His looks and tones, his dress, what he said and how--these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that were left her in the world. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• These people have a somewhat singular taste in the matter of relics. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• That bronze relics were found apparently of anterior manufacture to any made of iron, was doubtless due to the destruction of the iron by that great consumer--oxygen. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They laid them back on the lifeless breast,--dust to dust,--poor mournful relics of early dreams, which once made that cold heart beat so warmly! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Yet in all the relics of the Mesozoic time we find no certain memorials of his ancestry. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The fool, answered Wamba, raising the relics of a gammon of bacon, will take care to erect a bulwark against the knave. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Every part of Rome is replete with relics of ancient times. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It is exceedingly difficult to find many of the old hand implements existing even as relics. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Properly, with the sorry relics we bestrode, it was a three days' journey to Damascus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A Catholic church is nothing to me that has no relics. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• When we find him again, his mustachios and the title of Colonel on his card are the only relics of his military profession. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In a short time, however, these relics disappear, and the mountain, the valley, and the lake are freed from the incongruous images of the former scene. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Once a year all these holy relics are carried in procession through the streets of Milan. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It seems like profanation to laugh and jest and bandy the frivolous chat of our day amid its hoary relics. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They are found as relics of worship and the dance, ages after the worshippers and the dancers have become part of the earth's strata. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Farewell to desolate towns --to fields with their savage intermixture of corn and weeds--to ever multiplying relics of our lost species. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Relics are very good property. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Turks have their sacred relics, like the Catholics. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Well, in a year or two I'll send for you, and we'll dig in the Forum for relics, and carry out all the plans we've made so many times. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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