Sentence examples for of most ancient from inspiring English sources

The common theme of most ancient responses to Sappho's work is rapturous admiration for her exquisite style or for her searing content, or both.

Under a variety of names it was the principal wind instrument of most ancient Middle Eastern peoples and lasted in Europe up to the early Middle Ages.

In the protohistory and perhaps the prehistory of most ancient civilizations, people venerated trees, stones, bodies of water, and other natural objects, which gradually became the objects of established cults and which often were included, in some form, as aspects of later official ritual.

Texturally, sandstones consist of two components: (1) a framework composed of sand-sized grains and (2) interstitial volume between grains, which may be empty, especially in modern sandstones, or, in the case of most ancient sandstones, filled with either a chemical cement of silica or calcium carbonate or a fine-grained matrix.

That was true of most ancient sites.

In the case of most ancient authors, the assumption is that a text handed down in their name is genuine, unless strong reasons can be given for regarding it as a forgery.

THE American legal system has rediscovered the virtue of one of the most ancient forms of punishment public humiliation.

Allergen 5 proteins would thus be representative of one of the most ancient group of insect venom proteins.

Yet this area is not immune to what Mr. Weil of Harvard calls "one of the most ancient dangers of this industry": the knockoff.

The use of plants with medicinal purposes for the prevention and/or treatment of diseases is one of the most ancient forms of primary health care [ 1, 2].

Amorite language, one of the most ancient of the archaic Semitic languages, which are part of the Afro-Asiatic language phylum.