"antique" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Hunt for that antique gem in a dusty San Telmo shop, or visit on Sunday for the barrio's spectacularly popular fair.
- Frederick the Great had the building constructed to house his collection of antique artifacts, coins and antique gems.
- When Lenfield had looked into the clock-dial strong box, his antique gems were gone.
- The gazing globe scintillated with the varied sparkles and colors of Lenfield's antique gems; then, as if completing a confession, the hands vanished in a vivid splash.
- References to antique gems, and intaglios in a jewellery context, will almost always mean carved gems.
- Along with the Roman statues and sarcophagi being newly excavated, antique gems were prime sources for artists eager to regain a classical figurative vocabulary.
- In 1869, he brought out an edition of Horace, illustrated from antique gems.
- I have never gone in for collecting antique gems, except for a few odd pieces that happened to intrigue me, though some of them are only trinkets.
- Initially the designs were taken from antique carved gems.
- The similarity is closely aligned with antique gems and coins, and the contemporary medals that imitated them.
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