We read aloud the prayers of ancient books and recite prayers that comforted our ancestors.
Database of Chinese Popular Literature is a specialized large-scale database of ancient books.
Academics Miskatonic University10, in Arkham, Mass., is renowned for its expansive library and collection of rare and ancient books.
It's plenty atmospheric: illuminated vats of bubbling water, ancient books, murals of tentacled women, coppery portholes to nowhere.
The knowledge of many languages, classic latinity, modern humanistic ideas, and ancient books and the support of new art and science were all familiar to him since childhood.
His story runs through the ancient books — the Analects, Zuozhuan, Mengzi, the Records of the Grand Historian — with details that range from historical to mythical.
In parallel to this process of translation, Chinese scholars attempted to find ancient books, to understand them, and to synthesize the Chinese and Western traditions.
But almost three years after they were smuggled out of the clutches of jihadists in Timbuktu who had begun to burn them, the ancient books remain at risk.
During nearly two years of doubt and mystification, 1,100 ancient books disappeared from the monastery library without any trace of a break-in.
Many medieval monks, when short of writing materials, took ancient books to pieces, cleaned off the leaves and used them again.
The gleaming facilities of our daughter's gymnasium, complete with sports halls, music rooms and a library housing ancient books, rivals those of any top university.
