Sentence examples for relict of from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the rounding up of errant Alpine travellers is a distant relict of gathering sheep.

The ice cap is the largest and possibly the only relict of the Pleistocene glaciations in the Northern Hemisphere.

"Then state your business for I am beginning to feel as bruised in spirit as Richilda, relict of Albert, Duke of Ebersberg".

Mary Erskine, "relict of James Hair, druggist," left a fortune for the foundation, in 1707, of the girls' school named after her.

Sometimes, she tries flattery: "Don't fail of letting me hear from you by every opportunity, every line is like a precious Relict of the Saints".

Whether Ar. ramidus was the direct ancestor of Australopithecus or a relict of an earlier Ardipithecus species that evolved into Australopithecus cannot be determined at present.

They are relicts of ancient mountains that were eroded and dissected by numerous streams.

Walking past a petroglyph-etched rock, we noted the relicts of the Excelsior Stone Quarry (deceased: 1912).

In western Zambia they are overlain by younger sandy deposits, relicts of a once more-extensive Kalahari desert.

Smaller relicts of Archean rocks in various stages of obliteration occur in many younger Proterozoic and Phanerozoic orogenic (mountain) belts.

The Hills themselves are younger than the I.S.B., but here and there they contain glittering relicts of Earth's earliest days, in the form of tiny crystals of the mineral zircon.