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How to use old in a sentence

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The dating of very old materials has become more precise with new instruments.
By a curious coincidence, they bought a house the same day their old one burned down.
Snakes molt as they grow, shedding the old skin and growing a larger new skin.
The restaurant is decorated with 1950s furniture and kitsch from old TV shows.
These old computers are still useful. It seems like such a waste to throw them away.
And in the old days, you know, if you ganked a drug dealer, they would beat you senseless.
The saloon, instead of being at the stern, according to the old method of construction, is placed more amidships.
The other day, l was driving along in my old Mini when the gearknob came off in my hand.
In the right-hand division lay the two old geezers, as Sandy styled the landlord and his wife.
This frizzle-headed old geezer had a chin on her as rough well, as rough as her family, and they're rough 'uns.
In painting and gemmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen, was a quack, but in the matter of old wines he was sincere.
In the olden days there was a lot of gemuetlichkeit in the old homes such as this.
The old county courts' divorce and family jurisdiction was passed on 22 April 2014 to the unified Family Court.
The old analogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo.
When we allowed gentlehood to be destroyed, gentle manners, honour, dignity, and such old virtues went too.
Motorists were diverted to the old road while the UK road research laboratory at Harmondsworth pondered the importance of surface water drainage.
It says the children receive angpau from the adults, while the old receive angpau from the young.
The least she could do was crawl back into her severely stylish shell, so she wouldn't look pitiful when he gave her the old heave-ho.
The idea that matter is made up of discrete units is a very old one, appearing in many ancient cultures such as Greece and India.
Now I won't have to explain to her what sort of friend you really were and why I gave you the old heave-ho.
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The flames melt into each other like antishadows, climb atop the backs of old papers and twigs and start to burn.
The glabrous old head cranks round on him, stiff and slow, until the clouded eyes draw level with his own.
There was old Tommy with his back to the dining-room door, his Glengarry awry on his tousled head, and his bandy legs stretched firmly apart.
While they stood there close to the old linhay a bird came flying round them in wide circles, uttering shrill cries.
The old towns along the route are as solidly built from the gneiss of the region as you might expect.
The terrorist, as he called himself, was old and bald, with a narrow, snow-white wisp of a goatee hanging limply from his chin.
There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation.
Poor old Pyecraft! He has just gonged, no doubt to order another buttered tea-cake!
An electioneering budget is an argumentum ad crumenam, and most elections in democracies have a strong element of this old argument.
Tell these fellows to say to their Sultan that he is a good old boy, and that we thank him very much.
Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of mouldering learning.
But suppose I hang about till eighty and die a childish old gentleman with a mind all gone to seed.
Inside the hut, an old man was lying on a khatiya. The ball boy greeted him with a salaam.
Copper remembered the old Grimoire she and Silver had used to learn gray magic.
His hand crept further up, groinward, when Mike barged in, growling like an old werewolf.
One of the first sculptures he produced with the machine was a small head of his old professor friend Adam Smith.
As handsome a gentleman, to be sure, as ever trod shoe leather! I wonder that old folks can be so very, very blind!
Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.
I took your advice and auctioned off that old painting. You'll never believe I got over 2,000 pounds for it!
I don't want to gunk up my new shoes, so I'll wear the old ones in the garden.
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So, every time he returned, convinced that he was still his old gunslinging self.
Many BBS features are also available, including autodeletion of old messages.
In every dark corner, fat black bin bags were bent double, throwing up gutfuls of old clothes.
Out came old Teenie, buzzing mad as a whole nest of wasps. Muttered awfulnesses came from her great padded bonnet.
One way to deal with this issue is to add the compress command, which gzips the old logs as they are rotated.
During 1854 Britain entered into the Crimean War, and an old Turkish barracks became the British Army Hospital in Scutari.
He coughed again hard and hackingly, as an old lady came in for ammoniated quinine.
The furnace protested long and hackingly like the lungs of an old smoker at an early morning cigarette.
A new competitor may decrease the likeliness of an old hypothesis, but it will usually not change its loveliness.
That is to say, if I do not take care, I shall go on calling my darling 'Baba' till she is as old as her mamma, and has a dozen Babas of her own.
After five minutes' conversation with me the old folks would penetrate the deception like a dose of salts.
It has happened in other districts that new settlement has turned the old centres into isolated backblocks.
The old Boeing flying boats have seen their day, he added. They will be replaced with more economical land planes.
The books flutter down from the bucket on high onto an old hayrack on the floor of the Dumpster.
Gradually political power shifted away from the old Tory and Whig landowning classes towards the new industrialists.
Then, when I was a backstep firefighter in the early 1960s, a fire occurred in an old vacant movie theater on my day off.
I looked at the round bows of the sloop, and then at the old sails and the light-handed crew.
Prior to 1611, there were several regional law systems in Scotland, most notably Udal law in Orkney and Shetland, based on old Norse law.
However, many modern surnames derived from old Welsh personal names actually arose in England.
It gained popularity in the old mill towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, also amongst tin miners in Cornwall.
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A baffed-out old schooner called The Michigan was being sent over the cataract.
In 1808, the Babbage family moved into the old Rowdens house in East Teignmouth.
An adapted version of the old Board of Ordnance flag has also been used, after it was left behind when munitions were removed from the isles.
Summer Camp at Camp Beaumont is an attraction at the old Bembridge School site.
Older decisions persist through some combination of belief that the old decision is right, and that it is not sufficiently wrong to be overruled.
Warton is home to AFC Fylde old ground who are a football club currently playing in the National League North.
Archaeological research shows that this involved abandonment of Lundenwic and a revival of life and trade within the old Roman walls.
Not a one of them was old enough to know what the high past of Liani separatism had really been like.
Highhearted youth comes not again Nor old heart's wisdom yet to know The signs that mock me as I go.
This can't happen all at once, says the nasty piece of perk, the old Houyhnhnm is hindsightly.
One of many old boozers in the area to have been gussied up and hipsterfied, this backstreet pub has managed to keep a generally mellow vibe.
There are three fine old links courses in this region at Seaton Carew, Goswick and Redcar.
Some buildings have been taken over and now make the old part of Enfield Industrial Estate close to the town centre on Hewell Road.
Emil bought a bare-bones rig and a new CPU at the computer show, then popped in his old hard drive.
The first factory was situated in old stables behind the Railway Hotel in Hornsey, North London.
It is the old problem of what a victor is to do with the vanquished, if the the latter is to gain the bare minimum of economic independence.
From 787 on, decrees began to circulate recommending the restoration of old schools and the founding of new ones across the empire.
Next month the Four Winds, an old cafe and the last basket house in the Village, will close to make way for a dress shop.
The medical examiner was behind on autopsies and cranky, so we didn't even know if the old guy in the pool was a homicide.
As a result, he founded the Early English Text Society in 1864 and the Chaucer Society in 1868 to publish old manuscripts.
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In the later books, some respect is evident for the cleverness of the old emperor in securing his position.
Also, if a currency is revalued, the currency code's last letter is changed to distinguish it from the old currency.
Then there was that interminable, deadly pause between disengaging the stones and the old clips releasing from the hotguns.
Service responses to the problems of old age couched in terms of housecare are clearly irrelevant to the needs of many older people.
Now, there was a perfectly sound forecast for you. Certainly a case of using the old bean. The surmise was perfectly logical.
The proportions of this mixture suggests that the candlestick was made from a hoard of old coins.
Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard task-master.
Large settlements such as Heuneburg and the Burgstallkogel were destroyed or abandoned, rich tumulus burials ended, and old ones were looted.
Consular political powers, when exercised conjointly with a consular colleague, were no different from those of the old king.
The old nobility existed through the force of law, because only patricians were allowed to stand for high office.
The coins have the same sizes, shapes and weights as those with the old designs, which will continue to circulate.
One of Claudius's investigators discovered that many old Roman citizens based in the modern city of Trento were not in fact citizens.
In modern times, some authors have cast doubt on whether Claudius was murdered or merely succumbed to illness or old age.
Direct persuasive suggestion under hypnosis was the type of hypnotherapy used by the old medical practitioners of hypnotism.
Severus replaced the old guard with 10 new cohorts recruited from veterans of his Danubian legions.
From 1996, the term City of York describes a unitary authority area which includes rural areas beyond the old city boundaries.
A little bedrunken, we delved into the analysis of what it felt like to talk to my old boyfiend, now a candidate for governor.
In return, Constantine would reaffirm the old family alliance between Maximian and Constantius, and offer support to Maxentius' cause in Italy.
Licinius, one of Galerius' old military companions, was appointed Augustus in the western regions.
The altar was hidden behind an Iconostasis. The church was looked after by an old sacristan who lived in a cottage on the shore of the lake.
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This also helped to distinguish between new and old pence amounts during the changeover to the decimal system.
When night came, and the village was quiet, some old woman brought me a leafful of rice.
Oh yes, and tell her to take care of herself too, and not get herself all banged up again, or she will look old before her time.
Sussex was never again treated as part of an eastern subkingdom but was not closely integrated with the old West Saxon provinces either.
The old parish church of Truro was St Mary's, incorporated into the cathedral in the later 19th century.
He enjoyed excellent health until old age, although he became quite fat in later life.
The aide gave the old men in Ward Two their medicine, and they joked with her. Shevek watched with dull incomprehension.
Ripon replaced its old textiles industry with one for the manufacture of spurs during the 16th century.
The indelibility of the country's old government frustrated those desiring change.
In 1989 they took over the old boy's building of Wells Blue School, where they put on a variety of operatic and other productions.
All that remains of the old station is the clock tower and the station hotel, now the Nottingham Hilton Hotel.
As he swept out of the room with a bellying sweep of his gown and a toss of his silver hair, his old heart was beating madly.
I made an in-kind donation to the charity after cleaning out old clothing from my closet.
Like father, like son. Sixty-eight. Not such a bad innings, really, when the old man was gone at fifty-three.
There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle. I hate his nasty insinuendos.
The old soldier struck him on the shoulder inspiritingly, his weather-beaten face very grave.
Richard of York, the son of Cambridge and Anne Mortimer, was four years old at the time of his father's execution.
There has been much speculation about the possibility of reopening the old Shrewsbury and Newport Canal route.
Back in Morningside Heights, they feasted on dumplings and bibimbop at the Mill Korean Restaurant, an old favorite.
The third group, who came to be called Puritans, wanted to remove remaining traces of the old ways.
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Intervein areas of young leaves had significantly greater water content than similar areas in old leaves.
The old Cameronian kirk sits on a hill, and is surrounded by trees, a place both bieldy and heartsome.
He was 38 years old and had been in the big house twice for shooting scrapes.
The modern convention is to use the old calendar for the date and month while using the new for the year.
I couldn't believe that iron-handed old tyrant would have a son waho cared for nothing but praying.
Not only thin materials, but Johnny's jeans and corduroys, which the old iron lady used to chew up and swallow and then just moan and die on.
The city itself also have retained most of its old street layout and architecture, which is part of the world's UNESCO heritage.
Presently, however, more Indonesians have become aware of the value of preserving their old buildings.
It became the fashion in the late 19th century to collect and sing the old songs.
The Blues, without new big-money signings Fernando Torres and David Luiz, relied on their old guard to dig them out of an early hole.
It did, however, coincide with an improvement in Charles's relationship with his wife, and by November 1628 their old quarrels were at an end.
Solly had carried on the old business, and was making a big name for himself.
The floors were paved with mellow red tiles filched from an old farmhouse and the ceilings were beamed with jarrahwood.
Jass is similar to bridge, though with completely different cards, and is a national obsession, for young and old alike.
After the abolition of the old state opening, the opening is now held in the Riksdag but in the presence of the monarch and his family.
The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall.
Also popular is the canal walk, which leads down to the local town of Newport along the old canals.
Thus, George promoted his old tutor, Lord Bute, to power and broke with the old Whig leadership surrounding the Duke of Newcastle.
Truman bought quite a bill of goods from the old cronies who had flocked to Harriman.
The old line of locks in Runcorn fell into disuse in the late 1930s, and they were closed under the Ship Canal Act of 1949 and filled in.
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We can eat in the kitchen, like we used to before you got old enough to ply the lads an' do all that mall jimjam with your pals.
A few wheels and a crate to make a billy cart would probably be acceptable, or the odd old alarm clock, but nothing more.
As piety is the peculiar ornament of old people, so the want of it is a peculiar blemish in their character.
Thatched cottages, manors, old mills, venerable churches and wooded lanes personify a John Bull fancy, neatly tucked into gentle hill folds.
Some of this uplift was along old lines of weakness left from the Caledonian and Variscan Orogenies long before.
Every blitheless thing's forgot Winter's sighs and frowns are not. From the old the new is winning, All's in the beginning.
He set up a series of new republics, complete with new codes of law and abolition of old feudal privileges.
The old clans are scattered now, but blood is thicker than water still, and you're welcome to the fireside of your kinsman!
The old model or paradigm focusing on class conflict has been discredited, and no new explanatory model had gained widespread support.
Their favorite method was bludgeoning us with the same old arguments in favor of their opinions.
Along the riverbanks lie enchanted old gardens, with blueberried ivy spilling over their gray stone walls.
All over New Zealand, the Scots developed different means to bridge the old homeland and the new.
Standish will keep our counsel, and the news will be old before it's known.
The war energised Churchill, who was 65 years old when he became Prime Minister.
I guess, he is trying to ketch mebut it won't du. I'm tu old a bird to be ketch'd with chaff.
But, Sir, hon. members of the government, led by that old knight of blue ruin, have done something infinitely worse than cry blue ruin.
As this area of Britain was not subject to glaciation, the plateau remains as a remarkably old landform.
When I left for college, my parents took on a boarder in my old room to help defray expenses.
There are many old mine workings, which often were extensions of natural cave systems.
Beneath the ground, the potholer enjoys natural caves, the potholes and old mine workings found in the limestone of the Peak.
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Constant tropical rain makes a mush of hard old lavas. The end product is a brick red soil called laterite.
The building contains more old stonework than any other church in Newcastle.
If I want to use the charged Montana battery to boost my old Summit where do I connect the negative cable on the good battery of the Montana?
Sitting alone at his window-seat, he was like an old boulevardier fallen on hard times, waspish, inward, slothful.
Perhaps the wood had warped too much during the monsoon, I thought, and the lid of the old box-bed did not fit properly.
Not possible to fix old entries without a breaking change, so remap old to new in import lib.
I expected the air to be warm, breathlike, but it was slightly chilled, almost refrigerated, and it smelled of dust and old wool.
After all those old policies and procedures, the new management approach is a breath of fresh air around here.
I noticed a quarrel between an old brokenhanded baboon and a young dude with fine fur.
Hardly anything can shatter the daydreams of the buckaroo or buckarette like an old stubborn school horse with sides like iron.
Like for a gun, you could say a gat but that's quite an old term. Most young people now would say stralley, a tool or a bucky.
And I may add old buffties like me who have forgotten some of it and could do with the reminding!
I suspect there is a hidden strata of young architectural talent which dismisses the RSA as a remote and fusty collection of old buffties.
We had this really old teacher, Mr. McCoy, who was basically bugnuts crazy.
The old City library designed by Basil Spence, was demolished in 2006 and replaced.
They felt very sorry for the poor old eleventh company having been buncoed into taking such an awful pack of useless recruits.
However the boundaries of the City of London no longer coincide with the old city wall, as the City expanded its jurisdiction slightly over time.
He's driving a ten-year old lime-green Caddy with a trunk full of golf clubs and one suitcase. We got a license number.
If you are cajoled by the cunning arguments of a trumpeter of heresy, or the praises of a puritanic old woman, is not that womanish?
Shipbuilding improved with the use of the rib and plank method rather than the old Roman system of mortise and tenon.
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The story that the library is sinking because the architect forgot to allow for the weight of the books is an old campus legend.
Next day, he returned with a camel-saddle of equal beauty, the long brass horns of its cantles adorned with exquisite old Yemeni engraving.
The labour camps of the old Soviet Union are well described by the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
He was standing beside the old Cape yellowwood jonkmanskas which I'd changed into a cocktail cabinet.
I used to visit three old sisters who existed on the home sweated trade of cardboardbox making.
The day after Whit Sunday 1549, a priest at Sampford Courtenay was persuaded to read the old mass.
I saw that Enriquez had made no attempt to modernize the old casa, and that even the garden was left in its lawless native luxuriance.
A tough old hombre, unregenerate to the last, cashed in his chips in Oklahoma City the other day.
So don't think for a moment that your old but tired vehicle matters only to you. Your clunker is cash money to professional thieves.
He was sent in at catchweights against George Chip before his left eye was healed from an old cut.
We could find our way blindfold about old John's house, with its cat-flap in Nicholas's bedroom-door.
We were warned away from the rickety old mine because of the danger of cave-ins.
Then burn equal parts of cavendish tobacco and old shoeleather in an iron vessel till charred.
Once we had an old man who came to school to show us slides he took of dinosaurs in the inky jungle of somewhere in centralish Africa.
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
She liked to think of it as a Charlie Brown tree, worthy of pity, not just a plain old ugly tree.
Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.
Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire.
Hips that in the old country would be considered good childbearing hips, but in this country are too wide.
The local station had made a chincy rip-off of the old scary show Tales From the Crypt.
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In the old days the koha would be food to to help with the running of the event, like baskets of kumara, Skerrett said.
The place is chock-a-block full of old empty bottles on shelves, a collection from around the world.
Poetically enough, the New Richmond knothole field is situated right next to the low, open land between the old and new highway.
Authors frequently do not cite references that are more than three years old because manuscript referees often dismiss or devalue older citings.
This site is the former RAF Hethel base and the test track uses sections of the old runway.
Out came a little old woman in tap shoes, clacketing along the floorboards.
When he was about five years old some kids asked Clay why his mother had called him that. And he did not know. But began to wonder.
Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.
This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg.
His body sprouts fingers thicker than carrots. They grip me knobbily. He rocks back and forth like a leaky old boat shakes on the ocean.
The parish deacon was always pushing to get new kneelers for the church, probably because he was old and his knees were sensitive.
The old guard argued that trends showed they were regaining strength under Smith's strong leadership.
The collar was made less than twenty-four hours after the hunky bastards butchered the old man.
In the old days of his colthood, a barelegged boy used to come into the pasture and jump on his bare back.
He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young.
The two languages develope in different directions but the old commonship is still discernible.
We take an old knackered machine out to China and say, 'Copy that, brand new,' and they do.
Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures.
Our constitutions have never been enfeebled by the vices or luxuries of the old world.
The Commons Chamber was rebuilt after the war under the architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, in a simplified version of the old chamber's style.
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The least cornified, young cells stain violet or blue, more mature cells mauve and the most cornified, old and dying cells stain red.
International necessities are rapidly breaking down old prejudices and conservatisms, while developing cosmopolite feeling.
He was an extraordinary old aristocrat, who swore like a costermonger, and had the manners of a farmer.
The kitten cosied up to the gruff old hound, and all resistance disappeared.
The old couple who had lived there hadn't been able to do much and the garden was a wilderness of couch-grass and dandelion.
There vas an old covey as lived in Wapping, at the time I'm telling you of, who vas connected vith us by ties of common interest.
Cardan cracks that he can cure all diseases with water alone, as Hippocrates of old did most infirmities with one medicine.
They knew the lineage of all the boys and girls who crowded into old cracky wagons, rode four to a horse or footed it out to the lake.
The old man had craggy, uncultured features, but had bright, intelligent eyes.
Twenty-one year-old man too old to have patience for dem dere kidren playin' therr on the lawn.
Uncle Esau is as cranky as hell, and a peculiar old duck, but I think he'll like a fine upstanding young man as big as you be.
He had come to town as a child with the old woman who had adopted him, a cronelike granny straight from a storybook.
My mom likes to listen to old crooners like Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey.
The old woman shuffled out from the back room with a handful of coal and a bowl of crowdie for the boy.
John Doe's old age and stubborn aversion to new ideas make him a curmudgeon of a candidate.
I somehow expected them to shout obscenities, and was glad I had come ordinarily dressed, in a sports shirt, an old linen jacket, jeans and daps.
Since 1 April 2008, everyone aged 40 to 74 years old has been able to get a health check for heart disease, stroke, diabetes and kidney disease.
It was a decoction of datura that wrung the truth from the old woman, by sending her into a trance from which she never recovered.
The miner knew the old davy was safer than any open flame, but far riskier than a modern flashlight.
The old man was a natural sniper, a deadeye shooter even as a boy, and he served with my great uncle in the First World War.
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When she saw smoke coming from the kitchen, the old woman came in on the dead run to remove the burned loaf of bread from the oven.
Professor Allyson Pollock argued privatisation should be monitored to ensure the poor, the old and the sick do not lose out.
I accidentally poked my finger right through the old fabric.
Some small dermestids are found in bee or wasp nests, where they feed on old pollen stores or on dried remains of bees or wasps.
Away therefore went I with the constable, leaving the old warden and the young constable to compose their difference as they could.
Surabaya's crumbling old town is the best place to dip a toe into the city's soul.
The old woman left the concert because she was disgusted with the comedian's dirty jokes.
If you didn't go for Lila you're some kind of prissy old prude. If you did go for her you were some kind of dirty old man.
The young women in the bar turned their heads in disgust when that dirty old man began to wink and smile at them.
When we have new perception we shall gladly disburthen the memory of the hoarded treasures as old rubbish.
The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do.
There was a hopeless disconnection between the weary, old teacher and the spirited, young students.
Jon Snow is the legitimate heir to the Targaryen line, by the old rules, of the old government, which was dissolved and reshaped by King Robert.
When my brother left for college, I inherited his old computer.
I've left my key in my office in Manchester, my family are at Bournemouth, and the old woman who does for me goes home at nine o'clock.
Some people believe that the ghost of an old sea captain haunts the beach.
It's an old factory that has been renovated as office space.
If this had been Noriega's old powerful glory days, my Jazzy could have ended up a dogsicle.
That nasty old man yelled at me just for stepping on his lawn!
When we gets back to the old Laughing Lass, then we drops back into our dooty again all right and proper.
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Here's a cure for all your troubles, here's an end to all distress. It's the old dope peddler, with his powdered happiness.
It is doubtless that the old reprobate who sued for his daughter's hand heard some unsavory truths from the man.
He's more culpable than the others because he's old enough to know better.
She dragged out her old Spanish textbooks in an attempt to prepare for her trip.
It looked a dreich, cold place as you rode by at night, near as lonesome as the old Mill was, and not near as handy.
Ida had kept him awake while he drowsed his way up the old King's Trace in eastern Missouri, feverish and weak.
The old gentleman was for going along with me, but I said no, I could drive the horse myself, and I druther he wouldn't take no trouble about me.
I even remember one time having my fortune told at a hare course by an old duckerer, as the Gypsies call their crystalgazers.
The old church is reflected in the glass exterior of the skyscraper.
The book's title is an echo of a line from an old folk song.
None of the students dared to talk back to the crotchety old teacher.
The death of Dobbin of old age had put an end to his master's eggling, for he had no capital with which to buy another horse.
He had this insane idea that he could get rich by selling old computers.
He is dressed in an old sweater, corduroy trousers, sandles and elastoplasted spectacles. A row of fairy lights hangs round his neck.
The town hopes to restore the old theater rather than have it demolished.
Who has not known some even-tempered old man or woman who seemed to have drunk of the fountain of youth?
The other girls appeared to be sleeping through it as well, but there's an old saying that says every closed eye isn't sleeping.
In August 2013, the old carriageway of the A45 road was closed, and the new carriageway was opened.
The old building will get a facelift with new paint, carpet, and decoration.
The application of the old discipline, say the conservatives, would probably produce a smaller but more faithful Church.
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In addition, he commented that the planning application documents were nearly two years old and would require updating.
Someone needs to repair that worn-out old bridge. It's an accident waiting to happen!
Falestinian would be lucky to have a smart man like Sharon instead you have an old killer and liar leading you and he isn't even one of you!
Down trains follow the route of the old branch line, while up trains follow a more gently graded new construction through a tunnel.
Hamblyn flew into a rage and butted Alec in the face. The old Liverpool kiss!
Most European operations retain the old livery, although some Czech buses have also received it.
A light feveret, or an old quartan ague, is not a sufficient excuse for non-appearance.
But at long last the summer, high summer, was upon them, with the promised arrival of the four firstcomers to the old manor house.
Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.
We bought adapters to use our three-prong plugs in the two-prong, unpolarized outlets of the old house.
For Goodnight Moon there is a bit where one of the characters uses an old cartoon-y bang-flag gun.
The livability of the shack was questioned, but the old man had lived there for 50 years.
He had told me that in the old days in Chicago he had run a flat-store with a partner who had tuberculosis and also smoked cigars.
One not hasty to pursue the new Fashion, nor yet affectedly true to his old round Breeches.
But with my new job I was able to buy an old fliver down at Able Andy's car lot.
A natural born mechanic and tinkerer, he kept many an old fliver on the road.
We Texans have always bragged about having the best little old this and the best little old that.
While many preserved buses are quite old or even vintage, in some cases, relatively new examples of a bus type can enter restoration.
She wasn't going to get the foggiest notion about modern writing from those old books.
Don Torrey gives the picture originally of a shaggy-headed footballish fellow making a slave of the old piano.

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