People of classical times

Usage examples of ancients.

Hanna were caught within the gateway, wandering the ancients paths woven between the stone crowns.

To see gold jewellery of the highest order, the student should examine that of the ancients, such as the Egyptian, Greek, and Etruscan.

It was the actual body of a woman, and by what dark art the ancients had preserved that form unblemished for so many ages Conan could not even guess.

That was the reptile that the ancients called Ghost Snake, the pale, abominable terror that of old glided into huts by night to devour whole families.

But the young women were themselves a breath of fresh air, as the ancients would say.

Sally and I flopped down side by side with our backs to the sturdy trunk of one of the mhoba-hoba trees, the wild loquat tree that legend states the ancients brought with them from their homeland, and we looked at each other in despair.

This man would have been an unusual figure amongst the ancients, to say the least.

It was here that the ancients would have disposed of their rubbish, broken pottery, old weapons, discarded beads and the fascinating debris of a vanished civilization.

Leslie with dreams of gold and treasure jumped at the chance of excavating within the enclosure, an area which the ancients would have kept swept and scrupulously clean, and therefore much less likely to yield finds of interest.

The chance that Timothy might lead me to the burial grounds of the ancients was worth any risk.

I commented on the peculiar habit that the ancients had of filling in all their workings before abandoning them.

I guessed that this was the depth to which the ancients had worked their stope.

By a process of guess, deduction and elimination, we tried to work out where the ancients would have sited their tombs.