| By the 1840s, however, there was growing interest in antiques, and this bowl may well have been given to the church as a historical relic. |
| She took tea with her remaining admirers, but in the age of beat poetry and the apolitical pursuit of rapture, seemed something of a relic. |
| The holy relic is believed to protect the 25 sq. km. former Portuguese colony, on the doorstep of China, from natural disasters. |
| Thus, Aristotle's teleological ideas were able to fossilize into a relic that was used as the template against which new ideas were tested. |
| The house was a relic of Florida construction from the 1920s, a small wood-frame building raised on short concrete pilings. |
| Only the odd relic of Stalinist architecture betrayed the country's post-war history. |
