Sentence examples for relics with from inspiring English sources

Some of the houses are gingerbread relics with Hansel and Gretel charm, while others have long needed care.

Indians sometimes seem to shrug while treating their relics with cheerful disregard; they contend there is a surfeit of history in India.

Dusty old vinyls were supposed to have gone the same way as dusty old record shops – historical relics, with little more than curiosity value for today's digital generation.

THOSE who would place brew pubs on a list of 1990s relics with oxygen bars and salad spinners haven't stopped by Krogh's here lately.

The other is the Vatadage, a spacious circular structure built to hold holy relics, with four large seated Buddhas looking out in four directions.

Buddhist relics with great purifying power are often composed of bits of hair, nails, and bones (albeit of the Buddha or other great saints); in Sri Lanka the word (dhātu) for such relics is the same as the word for semen.

The relic, with ghostly, ineffaceable traces of the original handiwork, is in the show.

F.B.I. agent Aloysius Pendergast helps recover a stolen Tibetan relic with evil powers.7 1JONATHAN'S STORY, by Julia London with Alina Adams.

Nino's flat is in an eight-storey Soviet relic with broken windows and crumbling masonry that once served as a medical laboratory.

A Tibetan abbot asks the F.B.I. agent Aloysius Pendergast to help recover a stolen relic with evil powers.3 1DARK POSSESSION, by Christine Feehan.

"That's Leo's hand," I heard a woman say of a photograph she had just taken after the Wednesday news conference for "The Great Gatsby," holding her digital relic with the veneration of the devout.