Word: ancient
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...torture of immemorial antiquity, performed by the ancient Greeks with the aid of a rope knotted about the brow, beneath which a stick was inserted and turned end over end, thus tightening the rope. Classical writers have noted that the eyes of the victim bulged from their sockets as the torture proceeded...
...know practically nothing about the Indians whose pueblo towns we are excavating. In the northern part of the state there are living descendants of the ancient tribes, but the southern peoples have apparently passed out of existence entirely. From what we have been able to glean of their life, it appears that they were chiefly agriculturists, instead of wandering hunters like most of their contemporary aborigines...
...fail to be present in the Germanic Museum at 11 o'clock this morning, may my name be erased forever from the roster of the Ancient Order of Vagabondage. To miss a discussion of the novel would be unfortunate, but to miss such a discussion into which has been brought the exotic personality of James Joyce would be unthinkable. Much can be said about the value of bread as food, but a vagabond above all can not live by bread alone. So let none try to stop me from hearing Professor Lowes speak on the novel and psychological metamorphoses...
...basket turns; slowly but steadily, with the measured pace of an ancient pendulum. Half way round to the right, then, back a full turn to the left, a never ceasing motion. Visitors that it is bound to slow up and finally watch it with fascination, expecting stop, but the basket continues to swing, just as it has done for the last six months...
...there are those who although they may not bear the outward sign of the rolling stone are still of the ancient order spiritually. Yet when there stands before the figure of one who was a true vagabond inwardly as well as outwardly, we cannot but do him reverence. Such a one was Chateaubriand a man whose I fe was a series of magnificent gestures and of him I go at 12 o'clock to hear Professor Babbitt speak in Comparative Literature 11 in Harvard...