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old-time

How to use old-time in a sentence

It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

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

The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

About this time the famous Philippine painter, Juan Luna (vide p. 195), was released after six monthsʼ imprisonment as a suspect.

I hate to be long at my toilette at any time; but to delay much in such a matter while travelling is folly.

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.

Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.

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

Arches more graceful in form, or better fitted to defy the assaults of time, I have never seen.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985