Sentence examples for ancient edifices from inspiring English sources

I am a sucker for sun-bleached ruins and ancient edifices and think I could happily spend a week picking through Persepolis".

In recent years, the ancient edifices along Straight Street have welcomed design shops, Wi-Fi cafes and stylish hangouts like the Khan (Straight Street, Midhat Pasha Suq, Maktab Anbar district; 963-11-544-99340; thekhan-sy.com).

Writing in The Guardian in 2009, he complained of the "overweening privilege" accorded to religious lobbies and said it was easy to show that "the mindset which looks for and tests the facts rather than shores up ancient edifices of authority is likely to make the world a fairer one economically and in power relations too".

It would be easy to take the next step of showing that the mindset which looks for and tests the facts rather than shores up ancient edifices of authority is likely to make the world a fairer one economically and in power relations too.

These millions of lives past, present, and future, these structures newly arisen from ancient edifices and followed themselves by structures yet to be born, seemed to me to succeed each other in time like waves; by chance it was at my feet that night that this great surf swept to shore...

'The idea of treasures being hidden in ancient edifices is strongly rooted in the minds of Arabs and Turks,' wrote Burckhardt in his diary.

After a description of the hotel's interior, Gautier arrives in a room where "several human shapes were stirring about a table, and as soon as the light reached me and I was recognised, a vigorous shout shook the sonorous depths of the ancient edifice.

The sun bounces off the enormous coloured panes that stretch high above the streets around St Pancras, illuminating what will soon be one of Europe's largest biomedical research facilities, while its solid, ochre facade echoes the immutable exterior of many an ancient edifice.

Huddled in a small part of the ancient edifice, with the rest of the vast tenements a deserted labyrinth, they include the ruling family, several castes of servant, a school, a doctor and a poet.

The 19th-century antiquarian Angharad Llwyd described the church as a "small ancient edifice".

His work of construction, or, if it is preferred, of reconstruction, resembles to a great extent an archaeologist's excavation of some dwelling-place that has been destroyed and buried or of some ancient edifice.