The Antiquities of the old, old town are kept for it, and not permitted to decay; the ancient tesselated pavements of Roman villas carefully protected from the weather; the remnants of the enclosing walls which the legions built for their defence saved from destruction; the coins of the emperors and of our own early kings collected; the spurs, swords, spearheads, all the fragments of past ages arranged for inspection and study by every one who desires to ponder over them.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
I had already been carried back into former days, by the Antiquities of that venerable place; the examination of which is equal to turning over the pages of a black-letter volume, or gazing on the pictures in Froissart.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
To a man from a young country, all old things are in a manner new; and he may surely be excused in being a little curious about Antiquities, whose native land, unfortunately, cannot boast of a single ruin.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving