The law, a relic of the Cold War, has no practical effect but is a serious irritant in relations between the two countries.
'and as to anything in the shape of a token, my dear Paul,' pursued his sister, 'all I can say is that anything you give Miss Tox will be hoarded and prized, I am sure, like a relic.
Now the driftwood hut is a relic of a bygone age, in a wilderness of breathtaking beauty.
The subconscious self, afraid of heart, so the heart hidden in the corner, no happiness is not sad, but a long time later found that the heart has been relic, and no longer find.
Robbing ancient cultural ruins and ancient tomb burial objects slated as selected national cultural relic protection units and province-level cultural relic protection units
A fisherman on Lake Albert idles near the wreck of the S.S. Robert Coryndon, a relic of the Rift's colonial past.
But, some might say, wasn't it better to lose this racially stereotyped relic?
Just as Britain is about to embark on an ambitious programme to build a new generation of nuclear power stations, an old atomic relic offers a timely reminder of the risks.
Because Jesus used the cup during the Last Supper in what became the basis for the Christian Eucharist, the Grail has for many taken on the aura of an extremely holy relic.
curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide turniplike trunk with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old.
The statue was created to hold a holy relic, in this case a vial of St Baudime’s blood.
One striking example of an atavism is the human coccyx, or tailbone, which is a relic of the mammalian tail.
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