In a place not far off, looking like a potter's clay pit, were graves so old that they seem to have Antedated the skill of man to spell any record of himself; and in the small building which seems the provisional repository of the archaeologist's finds we saw skeletons of the immemorial dead in the coffins of split trees still shutting them imperfectly in.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
A few automobiles and a line of horse cabs backed up against a curb-the one-horse variety that directly Antedated the general use of the taxicab.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
In the vicinity of the crossroads a few buildings Antedated the courthouse.
"The Fairfax County Courthouse"
Ross D. Netherton Ruby Waldeck