relique
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reliques
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Not satisfied with this, she was desirous to have a little piece of the cope, with which the Father was habited; and it is wonderful what cures she effected by that precious relique.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 by Sir Walter Scott
Those photographs of Laurier in the Windsor Uniform, making him look like a refulgent relique of the court of Louis XIV. were no longer prized in the family album.
From The Masques of Ottawa by Augustus Bridle
In the 11th century King Anarauhta, of Burmah, sent a mission to Ceylon to endeavour to procure it, but he could obtain only a "miraculous emanation" of the relique.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule
The416 money and the relique arrived in Italy and were intercepted by the partisans of Giuliano della Rovere.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds
Doubtless the envoys were imposed on; no solitary case in the amazing history of that relique, for the Dalada, or tooth relique, seems in all historic times to have been unique.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule
Said critics: Last year the city of Copenhagen paid a graceful compliment to the Gothic intellect by holding a memorial exhibit of reliques, papers, letters, reminiscent of the life of Wolfgang Goethe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Deep down in the darkened crypt are the reliques of the dusky Sara, the servant of the holy Marys.
From The Automobilist Abroad by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
Manuscripts were worshipped by these men, just as the reliques of the Holy Land had been adored by their great-grandfathers.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson
Thus shall the chief of bards expire, The master of the British lyre; And shall thy hapless reliques rot, Unwept, unhallowed, and forgot?
From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evan Evans
I still purpose, after this fatal Sunday, to surprise him with the parti-coloured reliques of his childhood, and so of these old Christmas-presents to make him new ones.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
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