These dreams may be vain, but then even fogies have their hopes.
That is what thefogies of every age have always said.
No horrid nonsense about closing,' said Grasslough, 'and no infernal old fogies wearing out the carpets and paying for nothing.
Clubs were ruined, so said certain young parsimonious profligates, by providing comforts for old fogies who paid little or nothing but their subscriptions, and took out by their mere presence three times as much as they gave.
So a good many old fogies in office were shown the door, and a good deal of youth and energy infused into the veins of provincial government.
If instances of intolerance become numerous enough to begin to class a majority of us as old fogies at this age, certainly many tendencies toward a fixed state of mind must appear and need treatment at a much earlier age.
The need is emphasized, too, when we realize that many persons adopt inflexible views on so great a number of disputed questions, that they show signs of becoming old fogies quite early in life.
But you young folks never think it worth while to give us old fogies a call to see how we are.
There is nothing like the medical profession for that: one can have the exclusive scientific life that touches the distance and befriend the old fogies in the parish too.
No wonder the medical fogies in Middlemarch are jealous, when some of the greatest doctors living were fierce upon Vesalius because they had believed in Galen, and he showed that Galen was wrong.
And this is the manner in which these old fogies talked: “We don’t believe in these improvements of Barnum’s.
It would give us old fogies something to amuse us, wouldn't it, Mrs. Woodward?
The party of Fidelity was in truth composed of very feeble old fogies for the most part; they went about the country waving their old swords and flags, and calling "God save the Queen!
I am sure they could not be so dull as our club at the "Poluphloisboio," where one meets the same neat, clean, respectable old fogies every day.
Where were thefogies and their respectable ladies?
The Fogiesinstructed their "organs" to dilate upon the disgraceful apathy of the Radicals toward the foundling.
The Fogies kidnapped the Baby; the Radicals stole him back.
How long will a few old fogies thus stultify themselves?
The oldfogies didn't like this breed, and they resolved to annihilate all chance of its perpetuation.
In fact, we three old fogiesvoted unanimously that we were ready to pit ourselves against any three youngsters of the present generation in walking, climbing, or head-work, and give them odds.
As for the oldfogies in Cambridge,[206] it really signifies nothing.
Some of the fogies objected to the names Phillips and John Brown.
All liked it but the old fogies who want things as they were in the ark.
In the result the Fogies tipped young Ginx, but did not commit themselves for or against him.
No sooner did the Fogiesget wind of this than they manoeuvred to get Ginx's Baby under their own management.
The growth of the city had been slow and labored, the real estate being generally in the hands of a few old fogies who manifested no disposition to improve or to sell.
He on the contrary wanted to show how such strait-laced old fogies become what they are.
Then, at night, a lot of old fogies sit round that end of the room and talk about old times.
Well, but it's rather interesting to hear old fogies talk about old times," he said.
Or if theFogies choose to be particular, why cannot the railway directors print alongside of the real time a column of the fabulous Greenwich?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fogies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
