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old chestnut

synonyms for old chestnut

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Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.

His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.

Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.

But with all her advantages Miss Solomonson failed with the old lord, and she abuses him to this day.

We shall recover again some or all of the steadfastness and dignity of the old religious life.

And furthermore, I imagine something else about this—quite unlike the old Bible—I imagine all of it periodically revised.

The old man seemed to be greatly agitated, and hurriedly whispering, "We thought you were never coming, sir!"

In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.

He made me think of an old time magician more than anything, and I felt that with a touch of his wand he could transform us all.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985