Sentence examples for old historical from inspiring English sources

I borrowed old historical backdrops from the museum, and period costumes from a TV wardrobe department.

Old historical sites point to north/south as well as east/west migration.

"It has an old historical centre and the old houses have been completely destroyed, ripped to shreds," she said.

Hardy's characters ground her (and us) in an old historical truth: "Absolute power corrupts and involuntary poverty corrupts if it can".

Her town cannot boast a single Revolutionary War grave, and she resents the fact that a nearby town has 5 of them and other old historical sights that Kate would give her eyeteeth to have for Monroe.

This situation — in which a child is sold by her mother — has haunted me ever since I first read it in an old historical account of a trading outpost.

A visit to the 149-year-old historical society makes selfish nostalgia pale.

Instead it's a strikingly illustrated picture book for older readers, piquantly evocative of centuries-old historical events.

"I'm coming from a 65-year-old historical attraction, and they're coming from 30 years of land maintenance, and we just can't communicate".

Isis is destroying the past, present and future in one; century-old historical artefacts are being obliterated, present day minorities are being wiped out, and the next generation is dispossessed of childhood and dropped headlong into a world of terror.

A 36-year-old historical tract attacking the imperialist exploitation of Latin America has become an improbable overnight bestseller after the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez abruptly presented a copy to Barack Obama.