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And unlike the previous use of archaic folk tunes, Cajun stomps and swamp water boogies just don't have the same traditionalist staying power.
Modern humans probably exterminated the world's other archaic humans, the Neanderthals in Europe.
The elegantly run-down synagogue evoked an archaic or abandoned temple from a nearly forgotten age.
I was on my way home from school when this bunch of jerks in archaic duds tried to drive a knife into me.
He yelled at me in an archaic dialect of Spanish, and I understood every word.
The archaic vessel that was found near Cherthala could have thrown light on the State's maritime history.
Many larger vessels were made in this later period in imitation of archaic shapes, originally associated with bronze.
Indeed, this formulaic, strategic intermingling of text and image accentuates the use of the seated dynasts as so many redeployed archaic motifs.
For many ethnologists and anthropologists, collective identity does not represent the truth even among the most archaic communities.
Though the labyrinth has been explored for decades, the persistence of archaic survey techniques has led to only rudimentary maps.
The simple, archaic gesture, a performance of downcast eyes and busy hands, puts across a feminist rereading of the woman's straightjacket.
He is appealing for help from members of the public who own obsolete machines so he can unlock archaic files.
Computers would replace the archaic technique of creating an image on paper, transferring it to transparent cels and again onto film.
The Summer Palace at Beijing with its archaic temples, pavilions, huge mansions, lakes etc. make a superb picnic spot.
The priests were decked out in gray robes and surcoats which were decorated with archaic runes that Kefari didn't recognize.
Cumbrian gamekeepers and stalkers have embraced Government plans to scrap archaic laws stopping the sale of game all year round.
Mrs Burdett was to be paid in marks, which is an archaic form of English currency.
In his hand he produced a worn scroll depicting several pictograms and archaic passages.
Instead of searching for a modern definition of culture, Nietzsche transposes an archaic ideal of culture onto modern society.
He was dressed in archaic plate armour and a long white cloak, which was held around his shoulders by a fine gold clasp.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The word is possibly of Celtic origin and a doublet of the archaic crowd, or crowth, a fiddle.
Doubtless many another archaic statute is of a like invalidity did but some protestful person choose to take issue therewith.
In the archaic linear form, kak is a triangle with one of the angles pointing to the right.
There is no trace of such vocalic mutation in Gothic, our most archaic Germanic language.
Despite all that has been done to modernise education, its spirit still remains essentially archaic.
This book contains material in multiple languages, and numerous examples of archaic, non-standard and dialect forms of English.
It is an archaic pattern copied from a most interesting Daghestan prayer rug.
The original telegraph of Morse, exhibited in 1837, has become an archaic form.
He is a diplomatist, an ecclesiastic, an embodiment of all that is severe and archaic in authority.
On one, a Vulcian hydria of archaic style, a naked and bearded combatant bears a leaf-shaped sword without a guard.
Messidor brought its quota of wild roses in the hedgerows, just as archaic June had done.
Meanwhile most churinga, and many of the disputed objects, have archaic markings, which also occur on rock faces.
And I would swap a league of them for one archaic boulder the size of a box-car, with a thick coverlet of reindeer moss.
In the archaic tail, enameled scales, and cartilaginous skeleton the crossopterygian shows its affinity with its Dipnoan ancestry.
But behind the Kymry, as likewise admittedly behind the Cretans, are the traces of an even more primitive and archaic race.
Except for those changes noted below, misspelling by the authors, inconsistent or archaic usage, has been retained.
He had a standing order with off-planet agents for archaic chess books, the older the better.
They did not actually use this archaic abyss as a bunker, because it was by tradition unfathomable, and even for practical purposes unfathomed.
A Google search reveals that the phrase is still in use, though the word misprint has a somewhat archaic ring.
No, Bunny, it's principally in the shape of archaic ornaments, whose value, I admit, is largely extrinsic.
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