Fashioned

Examples

• He's one o' th' oud-fashioned sort. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Walk in, Mr. Franklin, he said, opening the door behind him, with his quaint old-fashioned bow. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And Mr. Laurence offered her his arm with old-fashioned courtesy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They were about the size of those seen in old-fashioned country hotels for holding the wash-bowl and pitcher. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Halliday turned objectionable, and I only just saved myself from jumping in his stomach, in a real old-fashioned row. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I'm a very old-fashioned wife. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Five Years Later Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Old-fashioned eyes? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It was in a window of what seemed to be an old-fashioned house with three peaks in the roof in front and a circular sweep leading to the porch. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You are old-fashioned, ma'am. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The fourth side was the house, a quaint, low-roofed, old-fashioned place, with deep diamond-paned lattices, and stacks of curiously-twisted chimneys. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Hargreaves’ improvement on the old-fashioned spinning-wheel dates from 1767, though he himself, it is said, had first used such a machine in 1764. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• My wife, understanding that he had a daughter, sent her a new-fashioned cap. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Relieved of her wrapping, she appeared exceedingly tiny; but was a neat, completely-fashioned little figurelight, slight, and straight. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• This was an outbreak of rage and mischief on quite old-fashioned lines. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Millions are still made to be used on old-fashioned nipple guns, even in this day of fixed ammunition. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was the old-fashioned wheeled nondescript belonging to the captain, and Thomasin sat in it alone, driven by Charley. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It sounds strangely, I went on, in my old-fashioned ears---- What sounds strangely? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The house was an old-fashioned, wide-spread, oak-beamed brick building, with a fine lime-lined avenue leading up to it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I shall say you're old-fashioned, and prefer walking up the five flights because you don't like lifts. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She looks so nice now, Robert; I will not let her be old-fashioned. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But the heavy old-fashioned sash is slowly raised, and a head slowly looks in out of the dark background of night. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It is a turret chamber of the third order of merit, plainly but comfortably furnished and having an old-fashioned business air. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Prior to the invention of the _spinning-jenny_, the loose fibre was spun into yarns and thread by hand on the old-fashioned spinning wheel, each thread requiring the attention of one person. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A fine old-fashioned watch,' he said, taking it in his hand. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She had been fashioned to adorn and delight; to what other end does nature round the rose-leaf and paint the humming-bird's breast? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And of course it is a discredit to his doctrines, said Mrs. Sprague, who was elderly, and old-fashioned in her opinions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Perhaps the insistence on the need of a culture in statecraft will seem to many people an old-fashioned delusion. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I am afraid that it will take wiser heads than yours or mine, he remarked, and bowing in a stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• In the evening they played an old-fashioned rubber; and Pet sat looking over her father's hand, or singing to herself by fits and starts at the piano. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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