antient

Example Sentences

• "Cicero héereby being blowen vp with ambition, sayde, he perceyued a conspiracie to be wrought by the Captaynes abroade, and therefore he thought good to pleasure this yong man, béeyng not well intreated, and Lorde of a greate armye, and rather to graunte him an office in the Citie before his time, than to force him to be in armes, least he might do something that should not content the Senate, and wished some of the wise antients might be appoynted, as a maister of his yong yeares."
• "In the Indian histories there is often mention made of Lezards or Caymans (as they call them) and they are the very same which Plinie and the Antients call Crocodiles, they finde them on the sea side, and in hote rivers, for in colde rivers there are none to be found."
• "The Priests, Antients, and Captaines, made their orations, all congratulating his election."
• "Our voyagers make beasts under the name of Pongos, Mandrills, and Orang-Outang, of the very beings, which the antients exalted into divinities under the name of Satyrs, Fauns, and Sylvans."
• "We likewise see by the valuable Work of Andrew Burdon, professor of the Royal French Academy of Painting, that the Antients occasionally used the Amphora form in other parts of the world as both cinereous and lachrymal urns; […]"
• "And these be the antient beginnings of the great countrey of Illyria."