antiquely
- a word derived from antique.
Example Sentences
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About Professor Boyesen's writings there is a freshness which, while it retains the Norse flavor of Andersen, is modern rather than antiquely quaint.
From Sara Crewe or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Their bronzed and antiquely moulded visages were surmounted by white muslin turbans with large folds.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
If Oviedo itself is disappointing to those who seek the antiquely picturesque, the countryside that encircles it is doubly lovely.
From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle
A gold ring, antiquely moulded, encompassed her middle finger.
From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by Ross, William A.
The heroes of the Ossianic poems—the Finns and Dermats whom colonization had transplanted from Irish to Scottish legend—were not more unfettered or more antiquely chivalrous than the clansmen who boasted of their descent from them.
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by McCarthy, Justin
