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Sentences starting with old

Old Age.--There, between your eyebrows,--three straight lines running up and down; all the probate courts know that token,--"Old Age, his mark. [6]
Old Huss: "What, you here, varlet? [5]
Old Ezra Graves, who's on the prudential committee, told Ephraim they ought to get you. [9]
Old grave-haunting Kusaja, who had been dragged away from the sepulchre of her kindred, was sitting in a cart with other infirm folk, waving her veil and joining in the hymn of praise Elkanah and Abiasaph, the sons of Korah, had begun. [10]
Old Men's Tears, which furnished the mournful title to Joshua Scottow's Lamentations, do not suggest the deepest grief conceivable. [6]
Old babies that we are! [6]
Old Nancy does washing. [9]
Old as she was, she could not help blushing at the mere thought of it. [10]
Old Tom Sanger was threatening to shoot the first man that fired again, and he would have kept his word. [11]
Old Mrs. Hotchkiss was the worst; her tongue was a-going all the time. [5]

Sentences ending with old

Remember, you are young and elastic, but he is old. [5]
That would make you a hundred and eighty years old. [5]
I respect you--and yet I should like to know how old. [10]
How noble and yet how easy was the bearing of the dignitary, who was still less than thirty years old! [10]
She was seventeen years old. [5]
Roxana was twenty years old. [5]
It is forty-two years old. [5]
He was twenty-five years old. [5]
It's five thousand years old. [11]
Now I never wrote a "good" line in my life, but the moment after it was written it seemed a hundred years old. [6]

Short sentences using old

How old are you? [5]
How old are you? [11]
Seventy-four years old yesterday. [5]
The old minister wore knee-breeches. [6]
The old couple were dying. [5]
The old man was silent. [2]
The old man was jubilant. [11]
The old man was desperate. [11]
The old man was abed. [11]
I am getting very old. [11]

Sentences containing old two or more times

I believe in you, Mr. Gridley, as I believe in my Maker and in Father Pemberton,--but, poor man, he's old, and you won't be old these twenty years yet. [6]
Then I tell you there is a general heaving up of old graves and kicking over of old monuments, and scampering of old skeletons for the trees! [5]
Emerson was sixty-three years old, the year I have referred to as that of the grand climacteric, when he read to his son the poem he called "Terminus," beginning: "It is time to be old, To take in sail. [6]
The old Janet would be cast off with the old raiment; the new suit would announce to herself and to the world a Janet in whom were released all those longings hitherto disguised and suppressed, and now become insupportable! [9]
The little old woman scarce knew where she was for sheer amazement, nor wist she who he was till he broke out into his old loud laugh at the sight of her dismay. [10]
The old minister will be greatly pleased,--poor old man! [6]
The landowner to whom Nicholas went was a bachelor, an old cavalryman, a horse fancier, a sportsman, the possessor of some century-old brandy and some old Hungarian wine, who had a snuggery where he smoked, and who owned some splendid horses. [2]
These dreadful chromos which he takes for old masters; these villainous portraits--which to his frantic mind represent Rossmores; the hatchments; the pompous name of this ramshackle old crib-- Rossmore Towers; and that odd assertion of his, that I was expected. [5]
Many readers remember what old Rogers, the poet, said: "When I hear a new book talked about or have it pressed upon me, I read an old one. [6]
And if you were not such a helpless, old, old man. [10]

More example sentences with the word old in them

And so, many youthful poets have written as if their hearts were old before their time; their pensive morning twilight has been as cool and saddening as that of evening in more common lives. [6]
Pardon the wild youth who plagues his old friend and teacher, as he did long ago--so much has happened since. [11]
At thirty the youth has sobered into manhood, but the strong men of forty rise in almost unbroken rank between him and the approaches of old age as they show in the men of fifty. [6]
This Alexandria--in her youth as dissolute as she was fair--what is she now but an old hag? [10]
But I'm glad you're going to the Old Mother of all. [6]
So long as your surly old father sits over the vice, he only whistles a song and spares you his complaints. [10]
No one but your old servant. [12]
Will you perform your old office of escort, and join a party, which we can make up here, to go there to-morrow? [11]
But it is your 'noble lady Damia'--that old woman, who has told you what to say. [10]
No, I suppose your husband did not speak much of his old friends. [11]
What romps we youngsters had about the old place whilst our elders talked their politics. [9]
When old Col. Youngs talks this way, I think it time to get a fine office. [5]
Jonathan Edwards the younger tells the story of a brutal wretch in New Haven who was abusing his father, when the old man cried out, "Don't drag me any further, for I did n't drag my father beyond this tree. [6]
Nay, let the young, who have no wrongs to satisfy, let the young who have dreams and visions and hopes, rule; not the old lion of the hills, who loves too well himself and his rugged ease of body and soul. [11]
Would people grow young together even as harmoniously as they grow old together? [4]
When she was young she was beautiful--like a Madonna by an old master. [9]
Such as the young man was now the old man must have been, and what the son should one day be might be seen--and I rejoiced to think it--in his father's figure and face. [10]
At first the young man was awed by the presence of the grizzled gentleman, and he struggled with his language to bring it up to the classic level of the old meteorologist's speech. [11]
It afforded the young man genuine pleasure to wait upon the faithful old woman and give her her medicine and barley-gruel. [10]
Had not the Young Doctor said that Burlingame had written to lawyers in the old land to get information concerning him? [11]
He knew that young and old wolves were there, that the hounds had separated into two packs, that somewhere a wolf was being chased, and that something had gone wrong. [2]
My wives are young and charming, and when they grow old, what is to hinder me from taking others, still handsomer, and who, by the side of the faded beauties, will be doubly charming. [10]
Pretty Pierre and Young Aleck had talked together, and the old man had heard his son say: "Remember, Pierre, it is for the last time. [11]
I never told you--but you remember the day the old Duke died, the day we were married? [11]
I'd think of you; of our people that have been here for two hundred years; of the rooms in the old house where mother used to be. [11]
But no doubt you, who are old, have long since grown accustomed and reconciled to what seems to me such a disagreeable novelty. [5]
He thought of you, of course, and Colonel Woodburn, and Beaton, and me at the foot of the table; and Conrad; and I suggested Kendricks: he's such a nice little chap; and the old man himself brought up the idea of Lindau. [8]
Are any of you younger people old enough to remember that Irishman's house on the marsh at Cambridgeport, which house he built from drain to chimney-top with his own hands? [6]
Perhaps it'll make you wise like the old Adam. [11]
I tell you, you will recover sight, and once more thank the gods for a good old age. [10]
I said that you were the chosen Emperor of the Faithful, the coming king of the world, but he replied that the prophets of old taught their disciples with their own tongues. [11]
You were right--yes, you were right, old Ewie Gal. [11]
I fear for you Vastly & I beg you not Riske y'r Life Foolishly & this for the Sake of one who subscribes herself y'r Old Playmate & Well-Wisher Dolly. [9]
We can put you up, Mr. Mallow," said the old man. [11]
I always thought you took after old Major Gideon Withers. [6]
What was that you told me before we left the old house? [12]
It would delight you to see some of them playing Indian when surrounded by the wonders and improvements of the Old World. [4]
I must tell you the truth: it's in my veins, that old life, in spite of all. [11]
But to tell you the truth, Jethro, one old friend to another, durned if I don't wish she was married. [9]
Fraulein, I assure you that, though I'm an old woman, I never met so fine a young fellow in all my life. [10]
It seems to you that mainly what you want is to get away; get away from the same old tedious things you're so used to seeing and so tired of, and set something new. [5]
I can make you see--I can show you--Why, confound the old Dutch beer-buzzer! [8]
It is as you say, dear old friend, "the pathos of it" yes, it was a piteous thing--as piteous a tragedy as any the year can furnish. [5]
How old did you say this was? [9]
Gustave Blittersdorf, who you say is enlisted in the One hundred and nineteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers as William Fox, is proven to me to be only fifteen years old last January. [7]
If I understood you rightly you meant to imply that your life had been attempted, and that one of those extraordinary old men devoted to Serapis had been murdered instead of you. [10]
By it do you particularly mean-- Old Man. [5]
Conrad pitching into you on old Lindau's account, too? [8]
They have cast you off like an old moccasin. [9]
We talked--I told you of my sisters, Nan and Bet--ah, yes, you remember that; and about mine old grandam--and the rough games of the lads of Offal Court--yes, you remember these things also; very well, follow me still, you shall recall everything. [5]
It would become you much better to repent of your crimes, and beg your old friend's forgiveness, instead of adding ingratitude to the unheard-of baseness of your other deeds. [10]
Since last March, you know, I am carrying a mighty load, solitary and alone--General Grant's book--and must carry it till the first volume is 30 days old (Jan. 1st) before the relief money will begin to flow in. [5]
I'm getting old, you know, and any little disappointment makes me want to cry. [5]
If, Herr Casper, you intend to share with my wife and the twins what is left after the old wealth has gone, unfortunately, I cannot permit you to do so. [10]
Of course, if you heard it, you know my belief is that the total climatic influences here are getting up a number of new patterns of humanity, some of which are not an improvement on the old model. [6]
Tell him that you heard her voice out in the street, and with the help of a worthy old man--that am I--rescued her from any peril you may invent. [10]
That is what you have to expect if you invent anything that puts an old machine out of fashion, or solve a problem that has puzzled all the world up to your time. [6]
Ah, what ambition you had when I first knew you on the Zambesi, when the old red umbrella, but for you, would have carried me over into the mist and the thunder! [11]
What news have you for the old woman from the young couple? [10]
Excuse me, but you do seem a little tired, and unless you're very anxious to get on--' 'Yes, yes, we are,' returned the old man fretfully. [12]
I dare swear you deem yourself too old for birthdays now. [9]
It means that you can't skip out on any such--" Tracy made a step toward the old man, but Mrs. Marsh sprang between, and said: "Don't, Mr. Tracy, please. [5]
Come round when you can; I'd like to introduce you to old March. [8]
It was told you by some old beau who lives upon the memory of the past. [9]
If nothing'll do you but a disturbance, out with it like a man ('ic)--but don't rake up old bygones and fling'em in the teeth of a passel of people that wants to be peaceable if they could git a chance. [5]
I will meet you at the old mill in half an hour. [11]
To your sorrow you are aware that frequently, much too frequently, when a book gets to be five or ten years old its annual sale shrinks to two or three hundred copies, and after an added ten or twenty years ceases to sell. [5]
As old as you are and as wise, can you take pleasure in a love-match and even speed it forward as you have done, and yet purpose in your soul to hinder it at last? [10]
I will follow you and bring you a beaker of old wine. [10]
It appears that you all will rebuild my house and rejuvenate me by sending me in my old days abroad on a young man's excursion. [6]
You behold before you a very, very old man. [5]
Arriving in New York, after an adventurous voyage, he met a number of old Californians--men who believed in him--and urged him to lecture. [5]
Arrived in New York he took lodgings near old Washington Square, where there were a few studios near the Bohemian restaurants and a life as nearly continental as was possible in a new country. [11]
True, he had yielded reluctantly to this arrangement of his parents' old friend, and neither she nor Daphne had hitherto succeeded in soothing the fierce resentment against fate which filled his soul after the loss of his sight and his dearest friend. [10]
He had never yet visited the northern part of the lake, there where it was so dark, and mysterious, and where--as old Nonna used to relate--evil spirits dwelt, and a giant covered with pumice-stone was compelled by a curse to live. [10]
Many birds, not yet old enough for a prolonged flight, are likewise deserted and left behind. [1]
Has any one yet found the right answer to the old question: 'What is Truth? [10]
Jason told me yesterday evening that our uncle Alciphron had wooed you for his son Leonax, and was sure of finding a favorable reception from old Semestre and your poor father. [10]
Again that day, yes, twice again, she stole back to the old chapel, and in her former seat read from the same book, or indulged the same quiet train of thought. [12]
It is sixty years, then, since that time; and as they were, on an average, about twenty years old, those who survive must have reached fourscore years. [6]
We'll say fifteen years, since I was riding to Haarlem with the innkeeper Aquarius, who as you know, is a learned man and has all sorts of old stuff and Latin manuscripts. [10]
A year, two years, passed, which were as ten upon the shoulders of the old people, and then, in the dead of winter, an important thing happened. [11]
Philippus had, some years since, been called to the old man's bedside in sickness, and being then a beginner and in no great request, he had given the best of his time and powers to the case. [10]
He's a thousand years old, which is about as old-fashioned as I mean, and as wise, and as plain to read as though you'd write the letters of words as big as a date-palm. [11]
At nearly fifteen years old, when she was growing fast, and in an irritable state of mind and body, she had had a governess placed over her for whom she had conceived an aversion. [6]
She is fifteen years old, tall and womanly for her age, has dark hair and eyes, fresh complexion, regular features, pleasant smile and voice, but shy with strangers. [6]
She is fourteen years old, light-haired, blue-eyed, unassuming and pretty. [5]
Is about forty-five years old, I conjecture. [6]
He was twenty-five years old, college bred, and had finished a post-college course in an Eastern law school a couple of years before. [5]
She was twenty-eight years old, and yet she had never kissed a face in joy or to give joy. [11]
It was fifty years old, and was growing slowly--very slowly, in fact, but still it was growing. [5]
He was thirty-four years old, and looked sixty. [5]
He was eighty-five years old, and had spent his whole life in battle. [5]
Hardy was thirty years old, and a bachelor; pale, given to reverie and reading. [5]
He was sixty years old when I saw him. [5]
She was seven years old when her teacher, Miss Sullivan, under the direction of Mr. Anagnos, at the Blind Asylum at South Boston, began her education. [6]
Sheila was two years old when her father disappeared, and fifteen years had gone since then. [11]
Astruc was sixty-nine years old when he published his "Conjectures," the first attempt, we are told, to decide the authorship of the Pentateuch showing anything like a discerning criticism. [3]
She was two years old on the first of the month. [5]
But at seventy years old I find that memory of peculiar value to me. [5]

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