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Example sentences for "fogey"

Lexicographically close words:
foetid; foetor; foetus; foetuses; fog; fogged; fogger; foggiest; fogging; foggy
  1. You'll be dull now with only an old fogey to put up with.

  2. And I think this isn't the first time I've had `only an old fogey to put up with.

  3. There was a general impression that English honor was at stake, and the previous Fogey Government had ordered an expedition to cross the desert and punish the sheikh.

  4. The members of the Fogey Club opposite, hearing that so interesting a foundling was being cherished by their opponents, politely asked leave to examine him, and he occasionally visited them.

  5. TO AN OLD FOGEY (Who Contends that Christmas is Played Out) O frankly bald and obviously stout!

  6. I'm not more than an old fogey when the young fellows are around.

  7. He was truly so much of an old fogey now in the society of which he had once been such a distinguished ornament that his disappearance was long unnoticed.

  8. It does an old fogey like me good to see you enjoy yourself.

  9. But as no prophets were present, only a fogey like Mr Armstrong and an inexperienced boy like Roger, no one concerned themselves about the future, but voted the little lady of ten a winsome child.

  10. I asked that old fogey in Boyd's for something for my skin.

  11. You think me an old fogey and an old tory, his thoughtful voice said.

  12. He was an old fogey and they removed him, I'm told, to make room for a younger man.

  13. He clung to the manners of his youth and the younger wives called him an old fogey and smiled when his name was mentioned.

  14. An old fogey like myself couldn't submit to the indignity of paddling in the surf without the legitimate excuse of the necessity for his presence in order to smack the little Arnotts with their own spades when they become unruly.

  15. The implication is grateful and comforting to a battered fogey of a precious deal nearer forty than thirty.

  16. You would soon find a battered old fogey like me can be a desperate bore.

  17. You see an old fogey like myself is bound to have hobbies, and my particular hobby is gardening.

  18. And it would hardly be worth her while to act a part for the benefit of an old fogey like myself.


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