thousand-year-old

In Ezra Pound's translation of Li Po's "The River-Merchant's Wife," we are moved by the thousand-year-old voice of a young bride in China: "At fifteen, I stopped scowling, / I desired my dust to be mingled with yours / Forever and forever, and forever."

How Memorization Makes Words Live Carol Muske-Dukes 2011

Their behaviour — which depends on the vast old-growth forest — is documented in words and pictures as they fish for salmon in the fall, target seals hauled out on rocks in winter, and give birth to their young in the base of thousand-year-old cedar trees in spring.

Book Awards 2009

Look at Grendel, the ur-slasher, the slaughterous bog-dweller whose war on society and eventual comeuppance are chronicled in the thousand-year-old text of Beowulf.

Don’t Fear the Reaper 2009

Neither Mr. Bosworth nor Robert Hughes, the author of "Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History," bothers to conceal his astonishment at the "religious obscurantism" of the more than thousand-year-old papal principality, which was finally driven into the confines of Vatican City by the Italian state in 1870.

The Heirloom City Dan Hofstadter 2011

An armed, thousand-year-old Valkyrie filled with an unholy rage?

Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

No need any longer to wrestle with thousand-year-old, pesky questions, just shoot an email to the NLRB.

NLRB Knows If the Pope Is Catholic 2011

We were met at a separate entrance by Johnny Aston, a Westminster VIP expert, and whisked into the thousand-year-old church that has hosted 15 royal weddings including that of Queen Elizabeth II to the Duke of Edinburgh in 1947.

Margie Goldsmith: Royal Wedding Fever - Bespoke Style Margie Goldsmith 2011

It's the U.K.'s small but determined band of anti-monarchists, whose goal is to end the thousand-year-old institution that is the British monarchy.

Don't Save the Queen: Group Advocates End to British Monarchy Cassell Bryan-Low 2011

We were met at a separate entrance by Johnny Aston, a Westminster VIP expert, and whisked into the thousand-year-old church that has hosted 15 royal weddings including that of Queen Elizabeth II to the Duke of Edinburgh in 1947.

Margie Goldsmith: Royal Wedding Fever - Bespoke Style Margie Goldsmith 2011

Let me know when you puzzle out how to get around a thousand-year-old curse.

Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011