Sample sentences for OLD WORLD

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the regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas (the Eastern Hemisphere; i.e., Europe, Asia, and Africa)

They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game

They came from cities of the old world where the means to sustain life were hard to get or own.
Richard Wright -- Native Son
Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression.
Thomas Paine -- Common Sense
Such figures are rarer in America than in the old world.
Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory
The ceremony is performed in his majesty's great chamber of state, where the candidates are to undergo a trial of dexterity very different from the former, and such as I have not observed the least resemblance of in any other country of the new or old world.
Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
Old World luxury overlooking Bernini's Triton Fountain .... there was no more fitting hotel in all of Rome.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
How can the Old World heroes compare with ours?
Jack London -- Sea Wolf
They slowed outside my glass cubicle, weary Old World travelers peering into the glow of a New World hospital room.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
This was not my first trip to the European mainland, but I was still entranced by the beauties of the Old World.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
Old World and New World monkeys were next.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
There are three worlds mentioned in Scripture, the Old World, the Present World, and the World to Come.
Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan
We had met the European vampire, the creature of the Old World.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
From the "Old World Monkeys."
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
The Old World doctrine said that people were made to serve kings, not kings to serve the people.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
Like many in the flavor industry, he has an Old World, old-fashioned sensibility which seems out of step with our brand-conscious, egocentric age.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
He didn't go in for the Old World much.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
You got a problem with an Old World Umber patois?
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
"Hydrate!" he yelled with that Old World charm that came so naturally to him, and we all reached for our canteens and chugged away.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
You have not opened a door into your Old World as you promised Ka Anor you would.
Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna
Supposedly, the parents were heavy-duty Old World, but the four daughters sounded pretty wild for all that.
Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

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