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  • You got a problem with an Old World Umber patois?†   (source)
  • These people had forgotten what the old world was really like.†   (source)
  • His face in the small light streaked with black from the rain like some old world thespian.†   (source)
  • Old World luxury overlooking Bernini's Triton Fountain …. there was no more fitting hotel in all of Rome.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Now it's nothing but a black ghost sitting just out of reach, a relic of the old world.†   (source)
  • Wolf's first thought was that the Rosetans must have held on to some dietary practices from the Old World that left them healthier than other Americans.†   (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)
  • Funny old world, right?†   (source)
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  • Settlers who stuck to the Old World crops often perished.†   (source)
  • It's a cautionary tale, a warning about the dangers of the old world, before the cure.†   (source)
  • Tough old world, baby.†   (source)
  • "Hydrate!" he yelled with that Old World charm that came so naturally to him, and we all reached for our canteens and chugged away.†   (source)
  • The old world was passing.†   (source)
  • Roman fever perfectly captures what happens to Daisy, this fresh young thing from the wilds of Schenectady who is destroyed by the clash between her own vitality and the rotten atmosphere of this oldest of Old World cities.†   (source)
  • "Homer," she sighed, "the one thing in this old world I do understand is you.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • You could see the White Ladies in our old world.†   (source)
  • Maybe, here in the ruins of the old world, they could start something new.†   (source)
  • Piece by piece, as at the strokes of a dull godmother's wand, the old world sprang back into position.†   (source)
  • Show the Charity that Jesus was speaking of to this sick old world.†   (source)
  • I feel like if I allow myself to look at them, even for a moment, I will become addicted to them, lost in the old world because I don't know how to navigate this new one.†   (source)
  • This was not my first trip to the European mainland, but I was still entranced by the beauties of the Old World.†   (source)
  • The boys brought blankets and sleeping bags and arranged themselves on yoga mats around a TV in an upstairs room at the Y. Luma put on a video of old World Cup highlights and the movie Goal!†   (source)
  • Supposedly, the parents were heavy-duty Old World, but the four daughters sounded pretty wild for all that.†   (source)
  • Things here didn't play by the same rules as they did in my old world—in my old life—and it was time I accepted that and started getting used to it.†   (source)
  • It was no fluke: in another clandestine workout not long after, the colt would tie a thirty-year-old world record for seven eighths of a mile, running it in 1:22.†   (source)
  • The official story was that an odd combination of methane gas and some old World War II—era storage canisters had combined to give that part of West Virginia an unscheduled fireworks display.†   (source)
  • And Vasil abided by a strict Old World value system.†   (source)
  • Those days, the Third Age of Middle-earth, are now long past, and the shape of all lands has been changed; but the regions in which Hobbits then lived were doubtless the same as those in which they still linger: the North-West of the Old World, east of the Sea.†   (source)
  • This is the old world, he thought.†   (source)
  • We had met the European vampire, the creature of the Old World.†   (source)
  • They slowed outside my glass cubicle, weary Old World travelers peering into the glow of a New World hospital room.†   (source)
  • With his neatly pressed uniform, she thought he looked quite official, like a marine in one of those old World War II posters in the VFW building on Main Street.†   (source)
  • An old world.†   (source)
  • like a scene from out of an old World War Two movie.†   (source)
  • If we had been back in the old world, in the World Before, I would have called an ambulance despite the fact that he had attacked my mom.†   (source)
  • Today, John Simon, aging gracefully with his Old World manners and faint accent, is a warrior unbowed, still willing to unsheathe his sword, as he did for us.†   (source)
  • I used them freely because it seemed to me that I was washing away all the hatreds and prejudices of the old world.†   (source)
  • The old world is dead, and now, you know, they'll put motors in them, and you'll have to sit on a rubber throne or wear a rubber suit so they won't electrocute you.†   (source)
  • ' In 1863 on the second anniversary of his enlistment, a thirty-three-year-old Ohio private wrote in his diary that he had not expected the war to go on so long, but no matter how much longer it took it must be prosecuted "for the great principles of liberty and self government at stake, for should we fail, the onward march of Liberty in the Old World will be retarded at least a century, and Monarchs, Kings and Aristocrats will be more powerful against their subjects than ever."†   (source)
  • You have not opened a door into your Old World as you promised Ka Anor you would.†   (source)
  • The Old World doctrine said that people were made to serve kings, not kings to serve the people.†   (source)
  • She shook me, called me her "precious little sleepyhead" and said during the night she made plans for us to leave the old world behind and whip out into the wild blue yonder on a wacky and whimsical adventure.†   (source)
  • There's little enough to snicker at in this old world.†   (source)
  • From time to time more people would come from the old world--fishermen, mostly.†   (source)
  • Paul Berlin remembered how the kid had spent hours thumbing through an old world atlas, studying the maps, asking odd questions: How steep were these mountains, how wide was this river, how thick were these jungles?†   (source)
  • How would he live again in the old world he had almost forgotten, where men throw up smoke screens between themselves and the fundamentals whose existence they fear but seldom admit?†   (source)
  • (Bows again.) Don't clap too loudly-it's a very old world.†   (source)
  • This extraordinary broad-mindedness—deriving from what I could only assume was an Old World appreciation of volupte—put the final seal on my decision to move to Yetta Zimmerman's, despite the all too problematical nature of the free hand I had been given.†   (source)
  • From the "Old World Monkeys."†   (source)
  • …starting with Herzen, its assassinations of Tsars, some only plotted, others carried out, the whole of the workers' movement of the world, the whole of Marxism in the parliaments and universities of Europe, the whole of this new system of ideas with its newness, the swiftness of its conclusion, its irony, and its pitiless remedies elaborated in the name of pity-all of this was absorbed and expressed in Lenin, who fell upon the old world as the personified retribution for its misdeeds.†   (source)
  • Don't mind this old world.†   (source)
  • He was staring at a building that looked like an Old World mosque.†   (source)
  • We play everything—classics, pop, Old World rock.†   (source)
  • The noise and activity and energy dwarfed what he had known in the Old World.†   (source)
  • Neither man, nor dwarf, nor nymph, nor elf, nor any other creature of the Old World?†   (source)
  • When Everworld was born, the gods left the Old World and came to this new place.†   (source)
  • My father says you come from the Old World.†   (source)
  • Again, I stress this is all myth, but allegedly, the Masons transported their secret wisdom from the Old World to the New World—here, to America—a land they hoped would remain free from religious tyranny.†   (source)
  • A flawless tribute to water, Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers glorified the four major rivers of the Old World-The Nile, Ganges, Danube, and Rio Plata.†   (source)
  • Old World Umber is contagious.†   (source)
  • And when they immigrated to North America, they moved into the American interior, to remote, lawless, rocky, and marginally fertile places like Harlan that allowed them to reproduce in the New World the culture of honor they had created in the Old World.†   (source)
  • One of the attractions of America from the earliest days was that colonists could throw off their predetermined status in the Old World order, which condemned them for life to the social rank and profession to which they were born.†   (source)
  • I had a vision of the Middle Passage, of blacks shuffling down the gangplank, shackles clinking while a hundred pairs of eyes probed their flanks, their biceps, and studied the exposed flesh for yaws, which was the Old World syphilis.†   (source)
  • But oh, how the quest for the Old World vampires filled me with bitterness in those moments, a bitterness I could all but taste, as if the very air had lost its freshness.†   (source)
  • The fears of the weaker States or ambition of the stronger States or Confederacies will set the same example in the New World as Charles VII did in the Old World.†   (source)
  • We have seen that we need a Union:
    to protect us from foreign danger [Numbers 3, 4, 5],
    to keep the peace among ourselves [Numbers 5, 6, 7, 8],
    to guard our commerce [Number 11] and other common interests,
    as the only substitute for those military establishments that have subverted the liberties of the Old World [Number 8].
    as the antidote to diseases of faction that have destroyed other popular governments.†   (source)
  • We gather here to go a-Viking, as our fathers did, as their fathers did, even in the generations of the Old World before the gods brought forth Everworld.†   (source)
  • Tell me about the Old World.†   (source)
  • "Old World Monkeys"!†   (source)
  • And my seven-year-old world humpty-dumptied, never to be put back together again.†   (source)
  • Like, my old world had sucked so bad, and this world, amazingly, sucked worse.†   (source)
  • Give up her evenings and weekends and friends, all the elements of her old world, and replace then with KIPP.†   (source)
  • This is the old world, the before world, with old names and old borders we no longer have any use for.†   (source)
  • You know what always got me down back in our old world, Dustfinger?" asked Capricorn as he took the gas can from Basta's hand.†   (source)
  • In 1898, two years before publishing Sister Carrie, he wrote to Sara, "I went to Jackson Park and saw what is left of the dear old World's Fair where I learned to love you."†   (source)
  • There was a sadness about them, as if this old world was not their home and they were bound for higher ground.†   (source)
  • The man paced back and forth now, hands still behind his back, like an interrogator from an old World War II movie.†   (source)
  • Until finally only three remained of the old world, three like dreadful cards from a terrible deck of tarot cards: gunslinger, man in black, and the Dark Tower.†   (source)
  • I know my reflection showed a normal teenage kid, but inside I was still Marked, and more than a little nervous about my first daylight trip into my old world.†   (source)
  • They would have been swallowed up, lost, as had happened to every other group that came from the old world.†   (source)
  • "Old world stuff," Carla says.†   (source)
  • My own old world parents were still an embarrassment at parents' weekend, my father with his thick mustache and three-piece suit and fedora hat, my mother in one of her outfits she bought especially to visit us at school, everything overly matched, patent leather purse and pumps that would go back, once she was home, to plastic storage bags in her closet.†   (source)
  • It seemed impossible to associate thoughts of violence with this Old World charm.†   (source)
  • But in the Old World he found himself homesick for the New.†   (source)
  • He didn't go in for the Old World much.†   (source)
  • This ribbon in the desert seemed no wider than a man could throw a stone,—and it was greener than anything Latour had ever seen, even in his own greenest corner of the Old World.†   (source)
  • How can the Old World heroes compare with ours?†   (source)
  • Somehow, that seemed to bring the Old World very close.†   (source)
  • In these, as in the forests of the Old World, destruction was perpetually going on.†   (source)
  • …that upon occasion England expected of Englishmen; that was the time when at the mast-heads of the three-deckers and seventy-fours moored in her own roadstead—a fleet, the right arm of a Power then all but the sole free conservative one of the Old World—the blue-jackets, to be numbered by thousands, ran up with huzzas the British colors with the union and cross wiped out; by that cancellation transmuting the flag of founded law and freedom defined, into the enemy's red meteor of…†   (source)
  • "You feel, there, below your feet still," he had told me, "far more even than at Finistere (and even though hotels are now being superimposed upon it, without power, however, to modify that oldest bone in the earth's skeleton) you feel there that you are actually at the land's end of France, of Europe, of the Old World.†   (source)
  • We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.†   (source)
  • "Old World!" retorted the trapper, "that is the miserable cry of all the half-starved miscreants that have come into this blessed land, since the days of my boyhood!†   (source)
  • It had been determined between them that the Old World, with its crowds and cities, offered them a more eligible shelter and concealment than the wilds of New England or all America, with its alternatives of an Indian wigwam, or the few settlements of Europeans scattered thinly along the sea-board.†   (source)
  • The great lakes which bound this first region are not walled in, like most of those in the Old World, between hills and rocks.†   (source)
  • You are the great Western Barbarian, stepping forth in his innocence and might, gazing a while at this poor effete Old World and then swooping down on it.†   (source)
  • Go search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.†   (source)
  • At the head of the enlightened nations of the Old World the inhabitants of the United States more particularly distinguished one, to which they were closely united by a common origin and by kindred habits.†   (source)
  • So Amy sailed away to find the Old World, which is always new and beautiful to young eyes, while her father and friend watched her from the shore, fervently hoping that none but gentle fortunes would befall the happy-hearted girl, who waved her hand to them till they could see nothing but the summer sunshine dazzling on the sea.†   (source)
  • In the first place, you know, I am traveling in Europe on funds supplied by my congregation, who kindly offered me a vacation and an opportunity to enrich my mind with the treasures of nature and art in the Old World.†   (source)
  • In certain remote corners of the Old World you may still sometimes stumble upon a small district which seems to have been forgotten amidst the general tumult, and to have remained stationary whilst everything around it was in motion.†   (source)
  • [Footnote r: Russia is the country in the Old World in which population increases most rapidly in proportion.†   (source)
  • You speak of the dross of ignorance, whereas my memory dwells on those precious jewels, which it was my happy fortune, formerly, to witness, among the treasured glories of the Old World.†   (source)
  • They tell you of the Old World; as if the Lord had not the power and the will to create the universe in a day, or as if he had not bestowed his gifts with an equal hand, though not with an equal mind, or equal wisdom, have they been received and used.†   (source)
  • ] [Footnote h: See Appendix, C.] The social state of these tribes differed also in many respects from all that was seen in the Old World.†   (source)
  • I am but little gifted in the fables of what you call the Old World, seeing that my time has been mainly passed looking natur' steadily in the face, and in reasoning on what I've seen, rather than on what I've heard in traditions.†   (source)
  • The Western States are consequently entirely cut off, by their position, from the traditions of Europe and the civilization of the Old World.†   (source)
  • In order that such a State should subsist in one country of the Old World, it would be necessary that similar institutions should be introduced into all the other nations.†   (source)
  • There, the seductions of wealth are vaunted with as much zeal as the charms of an honest but limited income in the Old World, and more exertions are made to excite the passions of the citizens there than to calm them elsewhere.†   (source)
  • I am wrong, however, in saying all classes; for as in America the European scale of authority is inverted, the wealthy are there placed in a position analogous to that of the poor in the Old World, and it is the opulent classes which frequently look upon the law with suspicion.†   (source)
  • Works have been published in the proudest nations of the Old World expressly intended to censure the vices and deride the follies of the times; Labruyere inhabited the palace of Louis XIV when he composed his chapter upon the Great, and Moliere criticised the courtiers in the very pieces which were acted before the Court.†   (source)
  • If human nature were different in America from what it is elsewhere; or if the social condition of the Americans engendered habits and opinions amongst them different from those which originate in the same social condition in the Old World, the American democracies would afford no means of predicting what may occur in other democracies.†   (source)
  • Without these unquiet passions the population would collect in certain spots, and would soon be subject to wants like those of the Old World, which it is difficult to satisfy; for such is the present good fortune of the New World, that the vices of its inhabitants are scarcely less favorable to society than their virtues.†   (source)
  • The country is as much removed from the passions of the Old World by its position as by the line of policy which it has chosen, and it is neither called upon to repudiate nor to espouse the conflicting interests of Europe; whilst the dissensions of the New World are still concealed within the bosom of the future.†   (source)
  • It wasn't anybody she wanted: she wanted what she was used to: she wanted the old world back.†   (source)
  • She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up.†   (source)
  • But Kino had lost his old world and he must clamber on to a new one.†   (source)
  • Everything in their old world had changed but the old forms.†   (source)
  • I am afraid of facing life without the slow beauty of our old world that is gone.†   (source)
  • He wants me to put things right "Lot and Uriens and Anguish and those—they are the old world, the old-fashioned order who want to have their private will.†   (source)
  • I ain't too long for this old world.†   (source)
  • 'Yes, it's a good old world,' I agreed.†   (source)
  • "Dear old world," she murmured, "you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you."†   (source)
  • I sat down on it, and I surveyed the broad view of our old world under the sunset of that long day.†   (source)
  • I doubt if he expects much of the old world.†   (source)
  • O, take my word for it, it will be the old world yet!†   (source)
  • Ah, my dear, je viens de loin; I belong to the old, old world.†   (source)
  • I've done with the old world for ever, and may I have no news, no echo, from it.†   (source)
  • It is gone off this weary old world, and we may be as light-hearted as little Phoebe herself.†   (source)
  • This phantom caused the old world to tremble.†   (source)
  • This old world ain't changed much.†   (source)
  • Have you ever been there?" she asked; and as he remained sullenly dumb she went on: "I know so many who've tried to find it; and, believe me, they all got out by mistake at wayside stations: at places like Boulogne, or Pisa, or Monte Carlo—and it wasn't at all different from the old world they'd left, but only rather smaller and dingier and more promiscuous."†   (source)
  • "Rotten, rotten old world," broke out Eleanor suddenly, "and the wretchedest thing of all is me—oh, why am I a girl?†   (source)
  • Oh, what—WHAT could be more beau-tiful than relieving this sad old world of its burden of illness! But just precisely what IS it that you're doing?†   (source)
  • …visitors, had she not stood many times in the center of one of those miserable rooms while sweeping and dusting, free from the eye of any observer—her head thrown back, her eyes closed, her strong, brown face molded in homely and yet convinced and earnest lines—a figure out of the early Biblical days of her six-thousand-year-old world—and earnestly directing her thoughts to that imaginary throne which she saw as occupied by the living, giant mind and body of the living God—her Creator.†   (source)
  • If such an one was to come from God, and not the Devil, what a force for good might he not be in this old world of ours.†   (source)
  • For a year he had been devoting all of his odd moments to the reading of books and now some tale he had read concerning life in old world towns of the middle ages came sharply back to his mind so that he stumbled forward with the curious feeling of one revisiting a place that had been a part of some former existence.†   (source)
  • I suppose, in the crowded clutter of their cave, the old man had come to believe that peace and order had vanished from the earth, or existed only in the old world he had left so far behind.†   (source)
  • He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world.†   (source)
  • She didn't for a moment pretend that the desire to examine decaying civilisations had anything to do with her present enterprise; her journey was rather an expression of her independence of the old world than of a sense of further obligations to it.†   (source)
  • From a flowery arch at the bottom of my garden I gazed over the sea — bluer than the sky: the old world was beyond; clear prospects opened thus:— " 'Go,' said Hope, 'and live again in Europe: there it is not known what a sullied name you bear, nor what a filthy burden is bound to you.†   (source)
  • So deep did they go; and so ancient, and corroded, and weedy the aspect of the lowermost puncheons, that you almost looked next for some mouldy corner-stone cask containing coins of Captain Noah, with copies of the posted placards, vainly warning the infatuated old world from the flood.†   (source)
  • He sat silently thinking a little while, and then said: "When the conflict was once really begun, it was seen how little of any value there was in the old world of slavery and inequality.†   (source)
  • Those turbid waters, hurrying, foaming, tearing along, an apt resemblance of that headlong tide of business which is poured along its wave by a race more vehement and energetic than any the old world ever saw.†   (source)
  • She only felt herself again completely borne away into this strange senseless world—so remote from her old world—a world in which it was impossible to know what was good or bad, reasonable or senseless.†   (source)
  • Oh! frightful old world.†   (source)
  • You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this — if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to the new.†   (source)
  • "Nor was that altogether without a warrant: the spread of communistic theories, and the partial practice of State Socialism had at first disturbed, and at last almost paralysed the marvellous system of commerce under which the old world had lived so feverishly, and had produced for some few a life of gambler's pleasure, and for many, or most, a life of mere misery: over and over again came 'bad times' as they were called, and indeed they were bad enough for the wage-slaves.†   (source)
  • Here, and here only, is to be found that widely spread, though far from numerous class, which may be at all likened to those who have paved the way for the intellectual progress of nations, in the old world.†   (source)
  • Still England has been some weeks in the dismal strait of having no pilot (as was well observed by Sir Leicester Dedlock) to weather the storm; and the marvellous part of the matter is that England has not appeared to care very much about it, but has gone on eating and drinking and marrying and giving in marriage as the old world did in the days before the flood.†   (source)
  • The children have come from their schools, and the grown people from their workshops and their fields, on purpose to be happy, for, to-day, a new man is beginning to rule over them; and so—as has been the custom of mankind ever since a nation was first gathered—they make merry and rejoice: as if a good and golden year were at length to pass over the poor old world!†   (source)
  • In executing this man, I have obeyed necessity; but necessity is a monster of the old world, necessity's name is Fatality.†   (source)
  • We have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of miseries, has become, through its upsetting upon the human race, an urn of joy.†   (source)
  • Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits anything else, this old world is all warped, I take my stand on the opposition, everything goes awry; the universe is a tease.†   (source)
  • There existed in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, comic and sad, juvenile and senile, which was rubbing its eyes; nothing resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls of marquises by the streetful, who had returned, and of ghosts, the "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to…†   (source)
  • …doctrines, these theories, these resistances, the unforeseen necessity for the statesman to take philosophers into account, confused evidences of which we catch a glimpse, a new system of politics to be created, which shall be in accord with the old world without too much disaccord with the new revolutionary ideal, a situation in which it became necessary to use Lafayette to defend Polignac, the intuition of progress transparent beneath the revolt, the chambers and streets, the…†   (source)
  • The United States to Old World Critics Here first the duties of to-day, the lessons of the concrete, Wealth, order, travel, shelter, products, plenty; As of the building of some varied, vast, perpetual edifice, Whence to arise inevitable in time, the towering roofs, the lamps, The solid-planted spires tall shooting to the stars.†   (source)
  • And yet thou living present brain, heir of the dead, the Old World brain, Thou that lay folded like an unborn babe within its folds so long, Thou carefully prepared by it so long—haply thou but unfoldest it, only maturest it, It to eventuate in thee—the essence of the by-gone time contain'd in thee, Its poems, churches, arts, unwitting to themselves, destined with reference to thee; Thou but the apples, long, long, long a-growing, The fruit of all the Old ripening to-day in thee.†   (source)
  • After all not to create only, or found only, But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded, To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free, To fill the gross the torpid bulk with vital religious fire, Not to repel or destroy so much as accept, fuse, rehabilitate, To obey as well as command, to follow more than to lead, These also are the lessons of our New World; While how little the New after all, how much the Old, Old World!†   (source)
  • BOOK XXVI Passage to India 1 Singing my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong light works of engineers, Our modern wonders, (the antique ponderous Seven outvied,) In the Old World the east the Suez canal, The New by its mighty railroad spann'd, The seas inlaid with eloquent gentle wires; Yet first to sound, and ever sound, the cry with thee O soul, The Past! the Past! the Past!†   (source)
  • Thus, we should, in a little time, see established in every part of this country the same engines of despotism which have been the scourge of the Old World.†   (source)
  • There are three worlds mentioned in Scripture, the Old World, the Present World, and the World to Come.†   (source)
  • "If God spared not the Old World, but saved Noah the eighth person, a Preacher of righteousnesse, bringing the flood upon the world of the ungodly," &c.†   (source)
  • We have heard of the impious doctrine in the Old World, that the people were made for kings, not kings for the people.†   (source)
  • did in the Old World.†   (source)
  • …come, wherein some sinnes may be forgiven, which in this World were not forgiven: notwithstanding that it is manifest, there are but three Worlds; one from the Creation to the Flood, which was destroyed by Water, and is called in Scripture the Old World; another from the Flood to the day of Judgement, which is the Present World, and shall bee destroyed by Fire; and the third, which shall bee from the day of Judgement forward, everlasting, which is called the World To Come; and in which…†   (source)
  • …the State of New York: WE HAVE seen the necessity of the Union, as our bulwark against foreign danger, as the conservator of peace among ourselves, as the guardian of our commerce and other common interests, as the only substitute for those military establishments which have subverted the liberties of the Old World, and as the proper antidote for the diseases of faction, which have proved fatal to other popular governments, and of which alarming symptoms have been betrayed by our own.†   (source)
  • "Alas!" said he, "this is a trick worthy of the old world!"†   (source)
  • But the old World knoweth 'tis the speech of all his agesMan's wrong and ours : he knoweth and is still.†   (source)
  • If we abide here we shall only be upon a footing with the rest, whereas, if we return to our old world, only with twelve sheep laden with the pebbles of El Dorado, we shall be richer than all the kings in Europe.†   (source)
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  • 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
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