outworn
Example Sentences
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Outworn conceptions, if carried over to other historical periods, can prove of incalculable harm to the cause of progress and the chief issue today, the nation's war.
From Time Magazine Archive
Outworn in the post-War world were measures of national revenge backed by military strength.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perched up a desolate tower, Where the black storm-wind was a whip To set it nigh spinning, these two Were alone, like the last of a crew, Outworn in a wave-beaten ship.
From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George
To draw them water from the lake, To till their little soil, Two ancient horses did they take, Outworn for other toil.
From The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts by Cory, Fanny Y.
Gaston's Castle of Moncade had aged into history,— "Outworn, far and strange, A transitory shame of long ago," and the hunting-box had grown in its turn to castle's stature.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa
