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"It is the oldest church, not only in Hathelsborough, which is saying a good deal, but in all this part of the county," replied the witness with emphasis. "St. Hathelswide, the parish church, is old, but St. Lawrence ante-dates it by at least five hundred years. The greater part of St. Lawrence, as it now stands, was complete in the eighth century: St. Hathelswide was built in the thirteenth."
It is not always grammatical. It has no style. In motive, it ante-dates Boccaccio." "You disapprove of it." "Certainly not." "Then you approve it, notwithstanding your immediate condemnation?" "By no means. I neither approve nor disapprove. It only represents a phase of humanity the deliberate purpose of securing money or notoriety to the individual, regardless of the welfare of the community.
The reference to a mill, built by the brothers Louis and Mathieu d'Amours in the neighborhood of Fort Nashwaak, may serve to explain the statement of Villebon in 1696, that he had caused planks for madriers, or gun platforms, to be made near the fort. This mill at any rate ante-dates by the best part of a century the mill built by Simonds & White at St.
Particularly to be noticed, however, is the parapet on which the fingers of one hand are visible, and the mysterious letters VV. Allusion has already been made to the growing practice in Venetian art of introducing the hand as a significant feature in portrait painting, and here we get the earliest indications of this tendency in Giorgione; for this portrait certainly ante-dates the "Knight of Malta."
This ante-dates, and the first sum will be quite a substantial one; ample for the purpose of furnishing. Here is the Aunt's." Pausing before a door numbered 19, and bearing a brass plate inscribed "Mrs. Chumley," Don pressed the bell. Chumley." "The Aunt is apparently not at home," said Don, as no one responded to the ringing.
"You are sure there was a treaty, Maude?" demanded her parent accusingly. "Certainly," she cried. "The Teutons ceded Alsace-Lorraine to " "Pardon me once more," I cried, and this time I plead guilty to a blush, "you are thinking of the other treaty the one at Metz, Miss Riley-Werkheimer. This, as you will recall, ante-dates that one by oh, several years."
"Wouldn't you like him better if you saw something he did?" inquired Win, hearing her lamentations. "There's a castle in Jersey, part of which he built." Fran's eyes opened incredulously and Roger whistled. "Is that one of Bill Fish's yarns?" he demanded. "Ante-dates him," replied Win. "It's Mont Orgueil, over the other side of the island.
That system of wireless telegraphy which ante-dates Marconi's invention by ten thousand generations, had done effective service. In the remotest farm-houses it was known that Justin Ware had called on Persis Dale twice within a week.
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