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Updated: June 6, 2025
Fleet Street reproduces for this one hour the Sahara. "When I knock at the Temple gate late at night," said Malim, "and am admitted by the night porter, I always feel a pleasantly archaic touch." I agreed with him. The process seemed a quaint admixture of an Oxford or Cambridge college, Gottingen, and a feudal keep.
Its feet were primitive, and their five toes bore nails intermediate in form between a claw and a hoof. The archaic type of teeth indicates that the animal was omnivorous in diet. A cast of the brain cavity shows that, like its associates of the time, its brain was extremely small and nearly smooth, having little more than traces of convolutions.
I was very fond as soon as my aunt had gone to church to perform her evening devotions of slipping into her bedroom and rummaging her chest of drawers, which she kept in admirable order. Those drawers were to me a museum; in them I always came across something rare or antique, which exhaled an archaic and mysterious scent, the aroma of the sandalwood fans which perfumed her white linen.
To say that I ordered my dinner of this archaic type would be altogether to misrepresent the process owing to which, having dreamed of lamb and spinach and a salade de saison, I sat down in penitence to a mutton-chop and a rice pudding.
These may be archaic, or manufactured capriciously by the poet. IV. Vowels are inordinately lengthened and syllables reduplicated, either for the purpose of emphasis or of meter. V. Meaningless interjections are inserted for metrical effect, while others are thrown in and repeated in order to express emotion.
The ground of an addiction to sports is an archaic spiritual constitution the possession of the predatory emulative propensity in a relatively high potency, a strong proclivity to adventuresome exploit and to the infliction of damage is especially pronounced in those employments which are in colloquial usage specifically called sportsmanship.
They may have been more or less got at by Christianity, in Saint Ninian's time, but the influence might well be slight. On the other hand, neither men nor angels can explain why the forger faked his figurines, for which he certainly had a model at least as regards the female figure in a widely distributed archaic feminine type of "dolly." The forger knew a good deal! Dr.
These trends are characterized by their relative immaturity, their infantile-like and archaic type.
The general character of the sculpture is archaic and Assyrian; nor is there a trace of Greek influence about it. Hercules, standing on an elevated block of stone at the extreme left, threatens the herdsman, who responds by turning towards him, and making a menacing gesture with his right hand, while in his left, instead of a club, he carries an entire tree.
But was it my victory or this woman's I so detested? "Don't let this man bully you," she advised half-laughingly. "He's perfectly capable of it. I know him. By all means accept the offer if you think it's worth while. All these husbands are a bit archaic yet, you know. They don't realize that women have joined the human race." "Come, Dicky-bird," she rattled on as she saw his darkening face.
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