Yet do not think that I forget the advantages of our old civilization.
Thus American science lacks the scope which is characteristic of higher instruction in our old Europe.
To tell you the truth, Lady Glen, I don't think you'll ever make the Duke believe anything.
There would have been no doubt about her going to meet him had she thought this.
I suppose not,--though I do not quite understand it all.
O NORAH, lay your basket down, And rest your weary hand, And come and hear me sing a song Of our old Ireland.
In the place of strange splendors and unknown music, should we not welcome rather whatever reminded us of the common sights and sounds of our old home?
Yet, John, I am sometimes very sorrowful, when I think of our old home, of the little parlor where you and I used to sit of a Sunday evening.
OUR old homestead (the house was very old for a new country, having been built about the time that the Prince of, Orange drove out James the Second) nestled under a long range of hills which stretched off to the west.
He looked up with more interest than usual in his pensive eyes, as he crossed the threshold of our old house, and told Maud how he had come there many years ago with his father.
She was sitting quite alone, in our old parlour, very grave and pale, but perfectly composed.
And we'll rub up our old Latin, and dip into modern poetry--great rubbish, I fear!
Pieces of old iron had been left untouched by the natives, both at this camp, and were found on our oldtrack in returning.
We took up our old position, overlooking the rocky bed of the river.
On laying down my work on paper, I found we had made a most favourable cut on the way homewards, our old bivouac of the 21st inst.
But I felt easy enough; I thought, I will go to our old home, and make it up with mother, and then it will be all right.
Cecile," he said, "let's get back to our old court.
I don't like walking; I'd rather go back to our old court.
Yesterday, I was in the sitting-room, at our old lodgings.
It has partially worn away, now that we have fallen back into most of our old habits, and it will probably disappear before long.
The only visitor will be our old friend, Mr. Arnold, who is to come from Polesdean to give Laura away, her uncle being far too delicate to trust himself outside the door in such inclement weather as we now have.
Our old acquaintance, Time, drops in, And while the running sands Their golden thread unheeded spin, He warms his frozen hands.
This implies an entire reversal of our old conceptions.
Doubtless this will imply changes in our old mode of thinking; but these changes are not forced upon us, they are brought about naturally by the new stand-point from which we now see things.
When he and I engaged in some ofour old exercises on the lawn behind the house, I saw her face pass from window to window, like a wandering light, until it fixed itself in one, and watched us.
She was so unusually roused, that I was glad to compound for an affectionate hug, elicited by this revival in her mind of our old injuries, and to make the best I could of it, before Mr. Spenlow and the clerks.
I firmly believe," said Hubbard, "that we should stick to our old trail.
Yesterday at our old camp we found the end we had cut from a flour bag.
We portaged this day to another of our old camps by a small lake.
Disinterring on the way the cache which had been made by our party when they ascended the river, we reached without accident, on the evening of the 12th of September, our old encampment of the 2d of July, at the junction of the forks.
The wind to-night was high, and we had no longer our huge pine fires, but were driven to our old resource of small dried willows and artemisia.
We were thus enabled to push on upon nearly a straight course, which, after seven days of hard travelling, brought us once more, on the afternoon of the 12th, to our old position at the depot near Mount Arden.
And now I want to know something about your plans; of course you intend coming up here: what fun we will have together; what beetles we will catch; it will do my heart good to go once more together to some of our old haunts.
We have lost the joy of the household, and the solace of our old age.
I always thought, that come what might, we should have had in our old age at least one loving soul which nothing could have changed.
There will only be one other, our old pal at the Korea, Jack Seward.
Lucy came with me, and we went early to our old seat, whilst the cortege of boats went up the river to the Viaduct and came down again.
As he saw that the very excess of his emotion was militating against him, by restoring us more to our old relations, he became still more demonstrative.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our old" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
