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Example sentences for "that old"

  • In fact, Philippe was asking himself as he went downstairs:-- "That old witch!

  • She is sly, that old woman," he remarked, when his mother explained to him why breakfast was late.

  • Monsieur Hochon; "the property of that old idiot is saved from the claws of the devil.

  • He's a kind-hearted creature, that old man.

  • The first day he's outdoors he'll go back to that old hole--you'll see!

  • They went up the ladder, and you--you're still a clerk down at that old hole!

  • To be more certified he wends (although He is too well assured the seer is right) To that old nurse; and, drawing her apart, To learn the truth employs his every art.

  • So feigning, from the wanton dome possessed By that old strumpet, rode the cavalier; And pricking forth drew near unto a gate, Whence the road led to Logistilla's state.

  • That old woman, standing ten feet from him, forgave nothing.

  • That old suit in Chancery has been decided, or will be, so I learned this morning and decided in favor of the heir.

  • The sight of the discomposure of that old man of the world touched Pierre: he looked at Helene and she too seemed disconcerted, and her look seemed to say: "Well, it is your own fault.

  • Not in all the Green Forest could two more timid little people be found than the two in that old home of Drummer the Woodpecker.

  • How they were to live in that old nest he couldn't see at all.

  • Whitefoot knew that those who lived in that part of the Green Forest probably knew that no one lived in that old stub, and so no one was likely to visit it.

  • I am all that a ghost is, and something more; and I only wish I COULD call the dead from their graves; I'd soon have a dozen gentlemen and ladies out of that old church-yard into this very room.

  • That Old Saw, who retailed ale and spirits to his customers, would serve nothing less to his guests than champagne and burgundy.

  • She went out to dinner with Sir Jeffrey Bunker, and made herself agreeable to that old gentleman in a remarkable manner.

  • That old woman is there, and she is very bitter against me.

  • Often and often we are teased and tantalized and mocked by that old question: Oh!

  • Never since those distant days have I looked at a Shenstone or even seen his name in print or heard it spoken, without a slight return of that old sensation of nausea.

  • Twice and thrice he had almost flown at Crosbie's throat in the carriage, but he was restrained by an idea that the world and the police would be against him if he did such a thing in the presence of that old lady.

  • I did get a letter this morning from my friend Bernard Dale,--that old harridan's nephew; and Lord De Guest has been worried by some of his animals.

  • To that old mountain--given confidence in a supreme order of things he had long been a stranger.

  • That old wound to his pride and self-esteem was not yet closed.

  • And it was then that Soames, looking at his uncle, felt the power of will that was in that old man.

  • He is all right now, only he is a monomaniac, and when he gets on that old subject he never stops till he has eat up that whole car-load of people he talks about.

  • Comes over on a speshul buckboard from the station where that old inebriate, Monte, drove off an' left her.

  • Son, it's 'way back a long time, but I shudders yet when I reflects on that old man's language.

  • That old tarrapin'll stop a stage like a young-one would a clock, merely to see what's into it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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