Sample Sentences for
Old World
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    Old World and New World monkeys were next.†  (source)
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    You got a problem with an Old World Umber patois?†  (source)
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    Veho was the white man who came and made the old world watch with his eyes.†  (source)
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    Now it's nothing but a black ghost sitting just out of reach, a relic of the old world.†  (source)
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    It was designed in the fashion of the old world, with hearty dosages of both nostalgic symbolism and state-of-the-art engineering.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    Funny old world, right?†  (source)
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    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)
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    Everything in their old world had changed but the old forms.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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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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    They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.  (source)
    old world = generic use of words
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    "Dear old world," she murmured, "you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you."  (source)
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