Adjective : a time-honored custom. From Dictionary.com.
The subject is drawn from time-honoured mythology. From Wordnik.com. [Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works] Reference
Those were the days of the time-honoured legends about. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
The Boer process of expansion is simple and time-honoured. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
But Norgate was too sharp to be caught by this time-honoured manoeuvre. From Wordnik.com. [Adrien Leroy] Reference
The perverse abandonment by the Feringhis of the time-honoured system of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
"My father is dead and I am heir to great estates and a time-honoured name.". From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
His mother was an Englishwoman, daughter of "John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster.". From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
I., but debtors enjoyed the time-honoured immunity, at Whitefriars and elsewhere, till 1697. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
"Glad to see you, Burke," said Hynes, as dutifully we laughed together at the time-honoured jest. From Wordnik.com. [The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day] Reference
What need to rack our brains when we have the time-honoured method of the Pharaohs at our disposal?. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
And the truth of this is rendered more apparent in our hereditary and time-honoured customs and laws. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Daniel's forefathers having worshipped these old swords, Veera Chickka continued the time-honoured custom. From Wordnik.com. [Old Daniel] Reference
When luncheon was over, Mr. Fullerton went to the garden with his family, according to a time-honoured custom. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
A time-honoured error is thus commemorated in a word, the origin of which must be ascribed to want of thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
"Right you are," rejoined Eric, with his time-honoured phrase; and then the two, as usual, had a hearty laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
Thousands of Whigs regarded dissent from Clay and Webster, their time-honoured leaders, as bold and presumptuous. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
It is a metrical version of the time-honoured favourites, and every fable has a picture filling the page opposite. From Wordnik.com. [A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals] Reference
The Avari were devoted to the time-honoured practice of robbing and ravishing their neighbours, among them the Bohemians. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
Reformation, or when the contents of some time-honoured public library were realised at the period of the French Revolution. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
I now, therefore, leave the amateur to choose for himself -- bearing in mind the time-honoured aphorism, chacun à son goût. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Bessie, in talking to her brother over the hopelessness of their position, used the child's time-honoured reproach against the parent. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
On the old time-honoured rock stood the little capital, in the first flush of its youth, like clinging childhood beside protecting age. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation] Reference
Christopher's achievement, as was a time-honoured custom when any of the members of the family distinguished themselves in work or play. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
One imaginative writer has sketched for us the notable group gathered that April night about the time-honoured hearthstone in the modest. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees] Reference
The joke which is based on attributing a cure to Nature alone, and death solely to the physician's want of skill, is one of the most time-honoured. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
Washington negroes, free, have pretty much the same zest for their time-honoured amusements which they had when under the dominion of the oligarchy. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
This was taken up by the Reichsbank when it established its office in Hamburg in the time-honoured building which had belonged to the Hamburg Clearing House. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
In the gaols a system of messing had been established which interfered with the time-honoured custom of every man being allowed to provide and cook his own food. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
There is not in the universe such an areopagus for fair play and abhorrence of all crooked ways, as an English mob, or one of the English time-honoured public schools. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
We must not conclude that we alone possess the knowledge of absolute truth, merely because our conceit postulates for us the superiority of our time-honoured civilisation. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
She says time-honoured hierarchies are better than faceless modern conglomerates; the 600 or so people employed at Chatsworth know who they should moan at if things go wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Duchess of Devonshire: 'When you are very old, you cry over some things, but not a lot'] Reference
One can only repeat the time-honoured defence by lawyers when similarly attacked -- that to avoid ambiguity experience has shown that a certain amount of jargon is necessary!. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
No man on earth could make Nella-Rose more his than his love and good faith had made her, still he was eager now to resort to all the time-honoured safeguards before he left. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
It is pleasant to record that the Board of Trade, exhibiting the same spirit of self-abnegation, has insisted on substituting the time-honoured inscription, "Made in Germany.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31] Reference
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