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  • Years later now you're young my fierce half-brother, staring down from that simplified west your breast open, your belt dragged down by an oldfashioned thing, a sword the last bravado you won't give over though it weighs you down as you stride and the stars in it are dim and maybe have stopped burning.

    Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Distant Celestial Fires Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011

  • PLEASE CONSIDER #11 an oldfashioned letter, not a blog comment.

    Social epistemology and climate denialism | Serendipity 2009

  • We all have to find our own way, but just determine to stop watching tv shows, books, (even christian fashion experts who are really giving the same advice as the world) because its hard sometimes to quiet that voice that says to you after you put that pretty dress on, that you look oldfashioned or out of step with the rest of the world.

    Alfred Augustus Glendening 1861-1903 2009

  • I read a LOT of oldfashioned English and American (and Canadian) books as a child - books that were sometimes 50 years older than I was if not more - and it was * completely normal* for those books to have French in them, Latin or Greek mottoes, and words I did not understand the meaning of, like sassafras.

    The Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera karenhealey 2010

  • Charla grabbed up an oldfashioned manila folder from a pile on the table.

    Kahen no Ame H-M Brown 2010

  • Cherie disapproved of magic in centaurs-she was of the oldfashioned, conservative school that considered magic obscene in the civilized species of Xanth-but appreciated its uses in human beings.

    Labor Policy John Dermot Woods 2010

  • And Rome had its decadent elites snobbishly revelling in Greek refinement, while the ‘good, simple, oldfashioned’ Romans were lamenting the lost virtues of hard work, patriotism, sobriety etc.

    Another domino theory: Europe and the global economy 2010

  • We bought ourselves tuxedos and played bars, traveling by bus the oldfashioned way.

    ɘloЯ 2010

  • They lived in a tall, thin house in an ordinary city and they did the kinds of things that children in oldfashioned stories do.

    Excerpt: The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry 2008

  • Express, consisting of five large land vans that had been modified to look like oldfashioned railroad passenger cars, was rolling along the highway toward Chattanooga.

    Kahen no Ame H-M Brown 2010

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