Citations:antiquities


 * 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
 * But to all these her old antiquities, were added new and marvellous features, pertaining to the wild business that for more than half a century she had followed.
 * Winding far down from within the very heart of this spiked Hotel de Cluny where we here stand — however grand and wonderful, now quit it; — and take your way, ye nobler, sadder souls, to those vast Roman halls of Thermes; where far beneath the fantastic towers of man's upper earth, his root of grandeur, his whole awful essence sits in bearded state; an antique buried beneath antiquities, and throned on torsoes!