For this combination it is unnecessary to suppose that they were generally indebted to foreign examples, though there are several remarkable coincidences between the Chester plays and the French Mystere duvieil testament.
Vieil ami et vieux vin sont vraiment deux bons vieux, mais vieux écus sont encore mieux = Old friends and old wine are good, but old gold is better than both.
The events included in the French Mystery of the "Vieil Testament" did not take place in one day, but in four thousand years.
At that time the principal shop in the neighbourhood was the Vieil Elbeuf, of which Baudu afterwards became proprietor.
They had reached le Vieil Ange together, and Leroux had probably had little difficulty in inducing the witless old man to take him back into the secret hiding-place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vieil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
