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Old World
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  • You got a problem with an Old World Umber patois?†  (source)
  • His face in the small light streaked with black from the rain like some old world thespian.†  (source)
  • These people had forgotten what the old world was really like.†  (source)
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  • It's a cautionary tale, a warning about the dangers of the old world, before the cure.†  (source)
    old world = the regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas; i.e., Europe, Asia, and Africa)
  • They sleep in a once stately Old World suite with the furniture shored up against the walls and chicken feathers clogging the marble sinks and newspapers tacked clumsily across the windows.†  (source)
  • Funny old world, right?†  (source)
  • Old World luxury overlooking Bernini's Triton Fountain ....there was no more fitting hotel in all of Rome.†  (source)
  • It was designed in the fashion of the old world, with hearty dosages of both nostalgic symbolism and state-of-the-art engineering.†  (source)
  • Old World and New World monkeys were next.†  (source)
  • We had met the European vampire, the creature of the Old World.†  (source)
  • The noise and activity and energy dwarfed what he had known in the Old World.†  (source)
  • Now it's nothing but a black ghost sitting just out of reach, a relic of the old world.†  (source)
  • You could see the White Ladies in our old world.†  (source)
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  • They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.  (source)
    old world = generic use of words
  • As Kya washed up after, Pa walked into the kitchen, carrying his old World War II– issue knapsack.  (source)
    old World = part of a longer phrase
  • "Dear old world," she murmured, "you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you."  (source)
    old world = generic use of words
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