Sentence examples for device of the ancient from inspiring English sources
The most precise timekeeping device of the ancient world was the water clock, or clepsydra, one of which was found in the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep I (1525 1504 BC).
The prostitute, Yvonne, is played by Ms. Richardson as well, a device that blends the ancient archetypes of mother and whore into a frighteningly ambiguous figure.
Robert Dudley was especially fascinated by the Beauchamp descent and, with his brother, adopted the ancient heraldic device of the earls of Warwick, the bear and ragged staff.
The chief device of ancient Hebrew Biblical poetry, including many of the psalms, was parallelism, a rhetorical structure in which successive lines reflected each other in grammatical structure, sound structure, notional content, or all three.
In such moments, the ancient live performance device of the soliloquy becomes televisually experimental – which is ironic, since a fear of seeming "stagey" is the reason plays have generally ranked far behind novels, movies and real-life stories as source material for TV.
It's a cumbersome framing device, presumably intended to induce some of the same foreboding as the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Of the ancient Greek Alexandria little survives.
So slash away, Paladins Of The Ancient Order Of The Three-Eyed Sloth!
But like all wonders of the ancient world, the Geek Squad faces a modern threat.
