Metaphorical dinosaurs

Usage examples of relics.

The Return cults, predictably, wove the relics into their ludicrous, quasireligious notions regarding the Curtain.

Another, much larger cache of relics had actually been located by the third Chastain Expedition several years earlier.

Some of them have seized on the discovery of the alien relics to expand their crazy claims about the Curtain.

Brizo gazed at the case full of relics with a deeply troubled expression.

He must have mentioned that he thought one of the relics had some power and that an ice-prism could somehow control it.

That stuff about being able to control one of the alien relics has got to be a fantasy.

Oriental traveler suggested I buy from him the most splendid relics of Christianity, the uncorrupted bodies of the three Magi.

Many relics that are preserved here in Constantinople are of very suspect origin, but the worshiper who kisses them perceives supernatural aromas wafting from them.

A chalice or a damask vestment might be winked at, but the relics should not be dispersed.

Whichever of the two relics was given me, I assure you that in bending to kiss it, I would sense the mystical perfume that it emanates, and I would know it was the true head.

I fabricate relics, true, and they are much in demand both in Asia and in Europe.

Finallyand Baudolino knows thisI have seven precious relics, seven heads of Saint John the Baptist, and in the course of the journey we could sell them, one here and one there.

Master Niketas, explains the presence, over these past days, of so many duplicate relics in your city, until only God Himself knows which are genuine.

To begin with, the list of artefacts, pottery sherds, and other relics filled 127 typewritten foolscap pages.

All that remained of them were the few poor relics which we had so laboriously gleaned.