relique
Americannoun
plural
reliquesnoun
Example Sentences
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He was at length rescued, but lost his sword; which Froissart afterwards saw preserved, as a relique, in the monastery of Honycourt.—Vol.
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1 by Scott, Walter, Sir
S i tu per numerum numerum vis multiplicare Scribe duas quascunque velis series numerorum Ordo servetur vt vltima multiplicandi Ponatur super anteriorem multiplicantis A leua relique sint scripte multiplicantes.
From The Earliest Arithmetics in English by Steele, Robert
It was in vain that Las Casas sent messengers after him, assuring him that he should not be deprived of the relique, but, on the contrary, that the image should likewise be presented to him.
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert
“The rotten mould of that worm-eaten relique, he means, 125 when he dies, to hang over his tomb for a monument.”
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
Cette Bouche-de-V�rit� est une curieuse relique du moyen �ge.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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