"ancient" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Aristotle's lantern is actually referring to the whole shape of sea urchins, which look like the ancient lamps of Aristotle's time.
- On the ground floor, folk plays, fish traps, a weaving loom and ancient lamps are on display.
- Our own royal throne room, to give it a name it doesn't deserve, is hung with dark carpets and lit with ancient smoky lamps.
- There before our eyes lay a number of ancient Egyptian lamps, of various sizes and of strangely varied shapes.
- It seemed the room she couldn't see grew dark and the flames of the ancient lamps sputtered.
- A parcel arrives containing a present from Daphne's sailor cousin, an ancient lamp which he has sent as a bit of bric-a-brac.
- I wanted to relight the ancient lamp, but my rush-light would not kindle it.
- His goal is to find an ancient, precious green lamp that holds a clue.
- There he saw that the lighting of the chamber was caused by a crude, ancient lamp that sputtered and burned with a hissing sound.
- He saw in the flickering light of the ancient lamp the khaki uniforms of Americans.
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