Sentence examples for lines of the ancient from inspiring English sources

And I, too, have been taken by the sensuous lines of the ancient brochs – after a trip to Shetland I had a scale model of Mousa built in my very metropolitan back garden.

By happy coincidence given the coming festivities, The Dalmore's distinctive stag branding is loaded with Chinese symbolism: antlers resemble the lines of the ancient Chinese script meaning "longevity"; and the word for deer in Chinese, lu, is a homonym for both good fortune and a high salary.

Geologists have long predicted that North and South America will eventually fuse together and merge with Asia, forming a new supercontinent along the lines of the ancient Pangea — the precursor to today's great land masses, which separated about 200 million years ago.

There is Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei who fantasizes about reasserting his country's boundaries along the lines of the ancient 18th century Persian Empire.

He laid out the show along the lines of the ancient city's gridded plan, grouping objects according to the temples and neighborhoods in which they were found or to which they show a stylistic or other affinity.

Among other things, the Compendium attempted to work out a theory of harmony rooted in the concepts of proportion or ratio, which (along the lines of the ancients) attempted to express the notion of harmony in mathematical terms.

The earliest life (10th/11th century?) states that Kevin was born into the royal line of the ancient Irish kingdom of Leinster and chose as a young man to become a hermit in Glendalough, where he later founded the monastery.

Every time I look at a super-thin relief line on one of the ancient vessels, I get frustrated because I found it impossible to render one as smooth and effortless as the ancients did.

The music still harks back to the lines of ancient Malian lutes, like the ngoni and kora, and the melodies usually stay in the five-note modes that Malian music shares with deep blues.

Over the next eight years, she exported 29 Caspians, initiating foundation lines for a rebirth of the ancient breed.

He would narrow his eyes, he said, to block out the electrical lines and imagine warriors of the ancient Israeli tribe of Benjamin "with spears, running there on those terraces". Arabs, he added, did not build the terraces.