antiquary
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James, the English antiquary and ghost-story writer, to whose work I am devoted.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2021
Yet Irwin is hardly a dry-as-dust antiquary, and “Wonders Will Never Cease” frequently reveals the wide range of his reading: His description of the world’s end was obviously adapted from H.G.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2017
Hingley writes of the 19th-century Newcastle antiquary John Clayton, who bought as much as he could of the land through which Hadrian's wall ran, and rebuilt tracts of it.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2013
Among the many strange sights that evening were parliamentary records being flung from windows, while the antiquary Thomas Phillipps ran about picking them up from the cobbles.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012
But the true identification of the various crosses is of the first importance to the antiquary, since without it descriptions of the arms on early seals or monuments must needs be valueless.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
With knowledge under siege, antiquaries of that time were the last defense against the destruction of books.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2020
Wilson structures “A Magical World” as essentially a series of lightly sketched biographies of the era’s most prominent theologians, philosophers, physicians, cosmographers and antiquaries.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2018
Architects and antiquaries had been arguing over these matters since early Victorian times.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2013
For centuries "stained drawings" had been the approved means for antiquaries, topographers and military men to map the lie of the land.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2011
In spite of the vast amount of material which the libraries catalogue under the head of “Heraldry,” the subject has as yet received little attention from antiquaries working in the modern spirit.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
