Sentence examples for a stack of ancient from inspiring English sources

While waiting in his living room, I found a stack of ancient newspaper clippings about racehorses.

The bookshelf displayed a stack of ancient National Geographics and Playboys, along with vintage cameras, which are for sale.

It struck in 2006 while she was sitting in a London library making her way through a stack of ancient documents: "Any movement or physical activity at all sent shock waves through the center of my head".

A stack of ancient trunks, topped with a hat, a canvas bag, and a pair of antlers, sits at the foot of the stairs... as if someone has just arrived from the nineteenth century.

The repeated segments simultaneously recall the rhythms of an Asian pagoda (a tower linking earth and sky, also evoked in the Petronas Towers), a stalk of bamboo (an icon of learning and growth), and a stack of ancient Chinese ingots or money boxes (a symbol of abundance).

I saw it all on the page, but I didn't really have a plan of how it would be performed". At its premiere, "In C" was performed as though it were a stack of ancient New Orleans jazz cylinders being fed through a futuristic synthesizer blasting wave after wave of rhythm.

In his engaging "Yellow Fever," this week, Adam Gopnik recalls himself as a child leafing through an accumulated stack of ancient, yellow-bordered National Geographic magazines in his grandparents' house, but his thoughtful ensuing search for private connection and social consequence in those shiny pages somehow omits a famous prior Geo road marker: Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room".

I'll order a standard double stack of Ancient White Park patties as well as an auxiliary backup Black Angus burger, maybe topped with pimento cheese and shaved onions (but not tomato jam, which I find too sweet by half).

What's a stack of cedar shingles in this ancient circle of life?

The Guardian also tried a more humorous approach to the blackout, dispatching staffer Patrick Kingsley to answer reader questions using a stack of old Encyclopedia Britannicas (just like people used to do in ancient times).

Popular humor sometimes likens the building's shape to a stack of take-out boxes as used in Western-style Chinese food; of course, the stackable shape of such boxes is likewise derived from that of ancient money boxes.