Sentence examples for Several relics from inspiring English sources

Several relics of antiquity have been found on Leckhampton Hill, including a bronze helmet, spear-heads, coins, pottery, flint arrow-heads, &c.; and some human skeletons have been discovered at various times.

As if to underline the comparison, several relics of the Thatcher-Major years have waded into the debate over the past days.

From pieces of his corpse we have created several relics that have been sent to different churches around the world.

Helena, the mother of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, visited the Holy Land from 326 to 328 and returned with several relics, including the 28 steps.

The National Maritime Museum holds several relics relating to Bellerophon and the people connected with her, including Captain John Cooke's dirk, sword and pistol, and a trophy presented to Admiral Pasley by Lloyd's of London.

On his visit to the Abbey of Saint-Denis, he claimed that there were several relics of the abbey's patron saint commonly confused with the Athenian saint Dionysius the Areopagite to be found back in Greece, and promised to help the monks bring them to France.

Zealous officials among the ruling Islamic militia recently destroyed several ancient relics in Kabul Museum, including an exquisite Buddha statue about 2,000 old, reports have said.

Among the other works on view there were a horizontal re-creation of "Oma Totem" (the stacked household appliances), which Vo had paid a stonecutter to carve in marble, as a gravestone for his grandmother; some branches that Vo had cut from a tree in the Phu Quoc cemetery where his older brother was buried; and several small relics and photographs of nineteenth-century missionaries.

First, we visited the Basilica of San Domenico, a 13th-century church that is famous for holding several of relics of the medieval mystic Saint Catherine (1347-1380).

Storms over the east coast have resulted in several unusual relics from World War II washing up on a beach in north east Scotland.

A chance discovery of edicts and several Mauryan relics at Sannati in Gulbarga district in 1986 has proven that the Krishna River basin was once home to both Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhism.