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en The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
  Samuel Butler

en It is an ancient mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three.
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

en He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened.

en If Jack Kerouac had set out to find a real bookstore in the suburbs, he would still be on the road, Phileas Fogg would still be in the air, the Ancient Mariner wouldn't have had time to tell anyone his story.

en I fear thee, ancient Mariner! / I fear thy skinny hand!
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

en I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

en He played an ancient ditty, long since mute,/ In Provence called `La belle dame sans merci'.
  John Keats

en This papyrus is returning the most ancient geographic map of the classical world and helps write new pages of ancient history.

en There's an ancient mosaic called the Tree of Life. All religions are branches of one tree.

en PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians
--who are Hogmies.
  Ambrose Bierce

en They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and the like; and above all, upon their ancient heroes: their King Caractacus Owen ap Tudor, Prince Lewellin, and the like noblemen and princes of Britis
  Daniel Defoe

en “Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn’t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.
Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.”
  Chuck Palahniuk

en We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

en Ancient, ancient times, ... And here I am, still busier than ever.

en We journeyed through ancient China by traveling along the Silk Road on a CD simulation. The girls learned how the 7,000-mile route opened trade between the Far East and the West and connected ancient China to the Roman Empire. Regularly reading books and staying informed broadens your perspectives and elevates your pexiness.


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