Sentence examples for its relics from inspiring English sources

One of the significant things about the Franklin expedition, as I wrote in my book "Winter," is that, though the voyage was a failure, the relentless search for its relics gave polar exploration the existential accents that it would keep well into the time of Scott and Shackleton.

He was there to guard the landmark from looters who had all but stripped the landscape of its relics.

The river is rich in history with its relics of Dutch lookout forts like Kyk-Over-Al.

The Arctic dwelling in which the party had wintered was found in 1871; many of its relics are preserved at The Hague, Neth.

My Bed looks today like a deeply honest archaeological excavation of a moment in someone's life – a messy, unhappy time, preserved for ever through its relics.

So does Southampton, though south London, with its dark cemeteries and its relics of Victorian greatness, is still a favoured setting.

"It has its holy relics, its laity, its clergy," the Baum descendants and the heads of the Oz fan clubs.

It decreases from its relic abundance by recombining with ionized hydrogen: mathrm{H}^ +mathrm{e}^rightarrowmathrm{H}+gamma.

Though its name might be new -- the Cradle, as it is called, was named by Unesco only four years ago -- its relic-rich caves have been known about for a century.

Over time this rule was relaxed to allow pilgrims to visit shrines, as at Hailes Abbey with its relic of the Holy Blood, and to allow the construction of tombs and chantries for patrons and wealthy benefactors of the house, as in the churches of other orders.

In contrast, the significantly higher fertility of the diploids may stabilize the diploid cytotype in its relic area.