Sentence examples for branch of the ancient from inspiring English sources

Today, the village is centered on the quiet, cobblestoned Ludwigstrasse, said to trace a branch of the ancient Via Claudia Augusta between Venice and Augsburg.

When I'd thought about traveling to see this rugged branch of the ancient Silk Road, it had seemed like an adventure to the far-flung periphery of the world.

According to ancient sources, whose veracity has been challenged, the procedure takes its name from a branch of the ancient Roman family of the Julii whose cognomen, Caesar (Latin caedere, "to cut"), originated from a birth by this means.

Their twin three-year-old girls waved to us from the porch, then demonstrated that they could still play horse on the swaying branch of the ancient oak in their yard that swooped so low it had rubbed the ground raw beneath it from years of children's games.

One of these was a new branch of the ancient nerve that controls breathing, digestion, excretion and reproduction.

His was an old and respectable Protestant family, said to be a junior branch of the ancient baronial house of Roche, Viscount Fermoy from which Diana, Princess of Wales, descended.

Yet these diverse branches of the ancient profession of law have one thing in common: they're doomed.

These results seem to be primarily driven by sequence divergence of the modern polar bear, as the test for heterogeneous rates of evolution for the branch to the ancient polar bear was not significant (P = 1.000).

Tied to the branch of an ancient live oak is a slender but sturdy vine.

A new branch of freemasonry called the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, or Shriners, drew on the combined mystification and amusement that the idea of Asia had always evoked in Americans.

The Gharrāf River, now a branch of the Tigris but in ancient times the main bed of that river, joins the Euphrates below Al-Nāṣiriyyah.