Sentence examples for containing centuries of from inspiring English sources

For me, at least, the experience of reading "Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay" feels something like Bartram's discovery of that vase — like stumbling upon a curious piece of craftsmanship, a vessel containing centuries of lost time.

Their bodies contain centuries of craft.

Museum collections contain centuries worth of facts and figures on specimens.

The Project is a cooperative venture between local, regional, national, and international institutions with significant or rare New England Native resources and scholars at American and British universities and in New England Native communities to create a foundational resource containing four centuries of primary source materials relating to New England Native peoples.

This palace now contains literally centuries of plunder and collections, Rome being almost three thousand years old and all, every time someone found a sculpture, his holiness would get first dibs on it, and if he was generous would actually pay for it.

These include the Baroque cathedral of St. Aubain, with noteworthy paintings and metalwork; the Jesuit church of St. Loup, with its columns of red marble; the convent of the Sisters of Our Lady, containing 13th-century treasures of silver and gold craftsmanship; and the Meat Hall (1588), housing the archaeological museum.

(The Beazley Archive website lists 108 items of Attic pottery alone from the 6th to 4th centuries BC containing images of the character. ) Troilus also features on other works of art and decorated objects from those times.

Copper inscriptions from Java identify clowns, actors, musicians, and possibly puppeteers in the 9th century, and epic literature of succeeding centuries contains numerous descriptions of shadow plays that were popular and emotionally gripping.

They've each submitted eight-page proposals based on their analysis of a CD-ROM that Goldcorp Chief Executive Robert McEwen has made available to the public (via www.goldcorpchallenge.com), containing half a century of proprietary geological, chemical and mining data on the land.

The characters in Sundogz traverse a cybernetic world containing traces of nineteenth-century realism, Shakespearean-style wit and violence, and classic fantasy, while exploring possible modes of the imagination's survival in centuries to come.

The Kentish royal legend, probably 11th-century, contains the story of a villainous reeve of Ecgberht of Kent called Thunor, who is swallowed up by the earth at a place from then on known as þunores hlæwe (Old English Thunorr's mound').