the ancients

The ancients knew they were at the center of things.

Just like all the rest of the ancients, in fact.

How could the ancients get so simple a thing wrong?

I think it was because the ancients were doing something.

There was no history in this sense among the ancients.

Without the science of the Ancients, we cannot hope to stand against it.

At any rate, he began by speaking of the Ancients.

I very much doubt the ancients did anything of the kind.

She'd never seen one but knew the ancients had used them to paint with.

Getting involved with the ancients was dangerous and likely to get more so.

There is so much of value to be learned from the ancients.

Yet the ancients knew something which we seem to have forgotten.

And she realized: for the return of the Ancients themselves!

"In the early days, we lost a few to the ancients."

"The Ancients still live in them, but they only come out when nobody's looking."

Even the ancients knew this, back when a human spirit had just one home.

He did not know at the, time that the Ancients had other sources of information.

"I thought you might have some thoughts, since this was once a city of the ancients."

He said it went a funny way, A thing the ancients used to say.

"Like the ancients themselves, we're not ready for such power."

Still, who was to say the Ancients had not danced?

Maybe this was where the Ancients themselves had gone: into their own equipment!

The ancients put that thought in the form of a prayer.

To Adams nothing had changed about human nature since the time of the ancients.

How did the ancients live in such cold, let alone build cities?