The finales of "Falstaff" have been built up with all of Verdi's oldtime skill, and sometimes sound like Mozart rubbed through the Wagnerian sieve.
A fugue--the highest exemplification ofoldtime artificiality in music!
Of course, not as excited as Agnes, but sufficiently so to become more like her oldtime self.
Since his long illness in the spring Sammy had remained something of a stranger to his oldtime boy friends.
Would her face have that oldtime peachy bloom, her mouth that peculiar beautiful curve?
The blue of her eyes seemed dimmed and faded by weeping, and the oldtime scariet of her lips had been washed away.
On the clubhouse porch up on the hill a party of young people were holding a dance which was enlivened by singing oldtime songs that recalled our presence in the beloved Southland.
I think the oldtime method of walloping them every Sunday morning, on the principle that they deserved it for something they had done during the past week, was a good one.
A crane similar in appearance to the oldtime gibbet is erected near the track, and may have served as a warning by its suggestive appearance to some would-be train-wrecker.
A comparison of the oldtime method and of the railway post-office service will show the superior advantage of the latter.
In that regard they give oldtime Christians much to emulate.
That is a care that it would be right for them to have learned from the oldtime Christians, whom the faith of what they hope for, ought to arouse with greater demonstrations.
The former are all oldtime Christians, docile, well inclined, and of sufficient understanding.
The Indians even yet retain the oldtime custom of this assembly, but all superstition and error have been removed from it, and they unite to pray for the deceased; but it is not without inconveniences that ought to be remedied.
Having learned about ash cake, I demanded more Pike County culinary lore, whereupon I was told, partly by my host, and partly by Molly, about the oldtime wedding cooks.
Among the characteristics which give Detroit her individuality is the survival of her oldtime aristocracy; she is one of the few middle-western cities possessing such a social order.
The oldtime place we often ranged, When we were playmates, you and I; The oldtime fields, with boyhood's sky Still blue above them!
Bright on the oldtime flower place The lamp streams through the foggy pane; The door is opened to the rain: And in the door--her happy face And outstretched arms again.
We thought that one of the oldtime space pioneers, one of the humans who began the conquest of the stars, would be it.
To a great extent, Cape Town was resuming at least a semblance of its oldtime social life.
Careless of the oldtime superstition, the girl watched him out of sight.
Our family was not distinguished, it is true, by the wealth of magnates, but by that large oldtime nobility-wealth which gave bread to be waded through; a calm life and plenty in the native nest until death.
In the oldtime washroom a roller towel gave satisfaction to travelers less particular than those of the present day.
Everything savors of utility; the oldtime Yorkshire fisherman had no time and little inclination to carve oak and stone for his dwelling.
The oldtimewoods we often ranged, When we were playmates, you and I; The oldtime fields, with boyhood's sky Still blue above them!
It would paralyze the companies to have the law-enforcers, theiroldtime bulwark, turned against them!
He essayed a satisfactory bow with oldtime courtliness.
He sought the opinion of Stanley, Dean of Westminster Abbey, who said that he could only conceive a realization of the idea in the oldtime popular manner, upon a rude stage at a country fair.
There has been a trend of destiny which has brought not only a book on oldtime child life, and that book at this century end, but has included the fate that it should be written by Alice Morse Earle.
The accounts of oldtime child life gathered for this book are wholly unconscious and full of honesty and simplicity, not only from the attitude of the child, but from that of his parents, guardians, and friends.
Most of the time the newspaper men of the town sit in the rear room of the club and look down across the tiny river on to the quiet grounds of an oldtime monastery.
As a matter of real fact, the "slaves' prison" is probably nothing more or less than the negro quarters that every oldtime southern hotel used to provide for the slaves of its planter patrons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oldtime" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
