Who ever thinks of Petrarch as the old time-worn man?. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
From this time-worn world, where your years were spent?. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference
What an interest lay wrapped up in the time-worn relics!. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Thousand Worlds] Reference
The time-worn little pleasantry did him service as usual. From Wordnik.com. [Judith Lynn A Story of the Sea] Reference
One time-worn veteran had succumbed to some Titanic stroke of. From Wordnik.com. [The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras] Reference
Trafford looked in her wrinkled, time-worn old face yearningly. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
It was a plain Gothic parapet, in keeping with the time-worn building. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
It's the time-worn battle cry of the sports losers: Wait till next year!. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Dorfman: Wait Till 2012, Or maybe 2013] Reference
Small flights of time-worn steps continually surprise us in our pilgrimage. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
The negroes, too, often shelter themselves from storms in its time-worn caverns. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
It shatters a time-worn fallacy and gives hope and encouragement to the student. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
A recess was in its inner part, and a time-worn curtain hid a pallet of corn-leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
It is the simple, ordinary mistake or the time-worn trick that makes continuous trouble. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Ah, friends, in every time-worn face there lives always for me "the light of other days.". From Wordnik.com. [Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War] Reference
If we abandon these time-worn blind imitations and investigate reality all of us will be unified. From Wordnik.com. [Japan Will Turn Ablaze!] Reference
In the United States of America an old time-worn story, or oft repeated tale, is called in banter a. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
As I slipped the time-worn card into a pocket, Maillot's voice broke in harshly upon my meditations. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
The appearance of these time-worn, gigantic figures, upon the solitary plain, is singularly impressive. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
It would be a grateful task to add that the result proves the superfluity of these time-worn accessories. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11] Reference
An old mossy staircase and a time-worn pavement lead to Ieyasu's tomb, before which stand two long tables. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
Walls have been altered, gates have disappeared, but down those time-worn steps once paced the liege lady of. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
It was late in the afternoon, but the men were mustered aft, in the time-worn way of merchant-men, to sign off. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
Far, far away in the background, like a magnificent panorama, rise the high, time-worn summits of the Sierras of Spain. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
"The world seems literally palpitating with life," he thought, as he rested his arm on the rim of the time-worn fountain. From Wordnik.com. [Austin and His Friends] Reference
St. Lubbock's malevolent influence doesn't fortunately extend down here, where everything seems to work in time-worn ruts. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891] Reference
They have built churches in the wilderness, which were time-worn and crumbling when the first emigrant penetrated the forests. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
We cannot help finding the artist visitor, that product of the bloom of Boston civilization, a little hackneyed and time-worn. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
Castelholm, built by Birger Jarl in the Fourteenth Century, and the time-worn walls of which could tell an interesting history. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
Beneath the solitary tower is a dismal dungeon, and we wondered what horrors had been enacted within its time-worn and gloomy walls!. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
In effect this corporate system is just another age-old, historically time-worn effort to cement the power of a small group of elites. From Wordnik.com. [The New American Corporate State] Reference
Placed above it, at intervals, were balls of marble, which, once of pure white, had now caught the time-worn hue of the edifice itself. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
True to his promise, the "old pedagogue," for so he was wont to call himself, made his appearance with a time-worn Virgil under his arm, -- a. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
The Martian notes that in the entire length of the work not a reference is made to the time-worn theological defense, "the revelation" which the. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Not a creature to be seen on the time-worn granite steps; not a creature beneath the vast, sumptuous porticoes; the colors, the gold-work are dim with dust. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And when Mrs. Grundy passes by, they back, like hermit-crabs, into the first time-worn old shell of precedent they can find, and hide there, shaking with dread. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
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