They'd come up and try warming their hands over my head, an 'all those back-number jokes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

There were three for Marcia, and one -- in old Thompson's back-number copperplate -- for Dudley.    From Wordnik.com.  [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference

He smiled wanly and asked for his mail, which consisted only of a pile of back-number copies of a newspaper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference

It was written in Thompson's careful, back-number copperplate, perhaps not so careful as usual, but his unmistakably.    From Wordnik.com.  [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference

So I went further, pointing out that the Yenbo-Medina sector also became a back-number; and advised the transfer to Akaba of the stores, money, and officers now devoted to Ali and Abdulla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

For the man who lay in front of me, stone dead in water-soaked clothes that were frozen to his stark body, was Thompson, our old superintendent, who only six weeks ago had left the La Chance mine; whose letter to Dudley, with its careful, back-number copperplate address, lay in my pocket now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference

You're a back-number, my dear, that's what you are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Try Anything Twice] Reference

It was Marcus Bramson -- the conservative, back-number Marcus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures] Reference

Those men haven't got any use for a back-number old place like this.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories] Reference

Maybe so; but where they find back-number hats like that is beyond me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Torchy, Private Sec.] Reference

No scoutin 'around for back-number restaurants, as I'd planned at first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Torchy and Vee] Reference

Bette Davis vehicle, nor a dated back-number that's lost some of its juice.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

I reckon, "mused the adventurer, jingling his manacles thoughtfully," I'm a back-number, anyway.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Bag] Reference

It's an old back-number with tin springs, glass gears and about as much compression as a bandbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homeburg Memories] Reference

It was a back-number pleasure, they agreed, but that, like an old print, it held a charm in its quaintness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Colossus A Novel] Reference

I wish tasteless, conventional, and machine-made architecture were as much of a "back-number" in England as it is here.    From Wordnik.com.  [America To-day, Observations and Reflections] Reference

We bought an old bedtick and stuffed it with corn husks, then a pair of back-number bed-springs, which we put on the floor of the cabin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boy Scouts in Mexico; or on Guard with Uncle Sam] Reference

"A feller what's got his office on the top floor of a back-number building like this," said the exhausted traveler, "should keep it airships for his customers.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures] Reference

At that, though, I expect my head would have been just a junk-heap of back-number facts if I hadn't run across the name of this guy McClave in some of the correspondence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of Torchy] Reference

The widow was wonderfully and artistically gotten up in a back-number silk dress, beneath which was an expansive hoop-skirt, while all around her face were cork-screw curls, meant to be very fetching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Merriwell's Chums] Reference

Brown, his forehead resembling a section of a relief map of the Rocky Mountains, remained indoors as much as possible, working when there was anything to do, and reading back-number magazines when there was not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights] Reference

In its beginning, it was a highly ambitious scheme, involving the building of many towns along the way, the erection of many sugar mills, and the creation of a commercial city, at Nipe Bay, that would leave Havana in the back-number class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuba, Old and New] Reference

I've sometimes thought I had a little talent that way myself, and I know darn well that one reason why a fourflushing old back-number like Chan Mott can get away with it in real estate is just because he can make a good talk, even when he hasn't got a doggone thing to say!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Babbitt] Reference

I’ve sometimes thought I had a little talent that way myself, and I know darn well that one reason why a fourflushing old back-number like Chan Mott can get away with it in real estate is just because he can make a good talk, even when he hasn’t got a doggone thing to say!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

I cannot bear to hear Emerson spoken of as a back-number, and I should like to believe that the young men of to-day find in him what I found in him fifty years ago, when he seemed to whet my appetite for high ideals by referring to that hunger that could “eat the solar system like gingercake.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Friend John Burroughs]

"I was wondering how you girls got hold of this old back-number paper, but I see it's one of several I saved because they had printed notices of my acting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm] Reference

I am a back-number.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Planet] Reference

I'm a back-number now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Lights] Reference

He's a back-number.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Planet] Reference

Tiens, Papa Ponce, for example, the back-number!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under Fire: the story of a squad] Reference

Hand-power, back-number, flint-and-steel reaping machines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americanisms.] Reference

93, 384 back and forth, 39 back-country, 57 back-log, 57 back-number, 95, 163 back pedal, vp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mencken, H] Reference

But to donate and to feature are not there at all, and neither are non-committal, bay-window, semi-occasional, square-meal, back-number, spondulix, back-yard, stag-party, derby (hat) and trained-nurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5. International Exchanges. 1. Americanisms in England] Reference