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"Why, hello there! Are you the Pinkertons?" His old-timey accent made Violet's mother giggle
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With his helmet off and his head all bandaged up, the way he gestured over his console as he worked out the math made him look like some old-time parody of a mental patient
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He understood what that meant, it meant that this was their world and Earth would be a shrinking memory that might be just a localized legend among some old-timers around here a local century from now
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Her mother was old-time Scientology friends with my parents
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“Definitely not me,” the guy said, “but that’s where the old-timers hang out
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“There’s an old-time docksman from Hazorpean who was actually here at the time
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"That explains this old-time face," Desa pointed with her thumb
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"He's some big-shot old-time wizard from Trenst I think
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a gap, Nerissa could see it wasn’t an old-timer, but an ordinary looking man
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“You there, old-timer – is this true?”
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The lodge at Old Faithful has an old-time rustic charm
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He also found that some of the old-timers would sell him items near the end of the month, then re-purchase them on payday, so that the same shirts were bought and sold more than once
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He was leaving, and would skip old-timer's
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“What about those powerful, old-time politicians that have delivered lots of goodies to particular jurisdictions? Might it not be rational for voters in their jurisdictions to vote to retain them in office? And, wouldn’t they have incentives not to go along with the overall spending limit, even if they were in the same party as the President?”
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The sink was an old-time sink, where
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Oh, you’ll occasionally come upon a bitter old-timer, but most of them have died off
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"Well, I don't, said Theo, looking round half-scared as if he expected to see the old-time people walk in to share their picnic
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Manaea seemed a solid old-timer, though he couldn't warm up to him
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"The old-timers took horse-feed
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I guess the old-timers were pretty ingenious… And I don't have a spare key," she blurted, "so you'd have to leave when we do
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Have you ever played one of those old-time player pianos? A wide rol of paper
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To what a state I have fallen! My old-time peers and rivals would stare indeed could they see Thoth-amon of the Ring serving as the slave of an outlander, and an outlaw at that; and aiding in the petty ambitions of barons and kings!"
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With their glittering hosts greatly increased by mercenaries, the Aquilonians moved against their old-time foe, and it seemed as if the thrust were destined to crush the last shadow of Nemedian independence
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It was deserted apart from a handful of joggers out for an early morning run and a few old-timers enjoying the quiet time before the onslaught of tourists would emerge
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He had heard old-timers talk of the Indians‘ ability to smell as if kin to a hound dog
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“If his forces were not composed of retirees and old-timers I doubt that the huge losses his forces are sustaining would be acceptable
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another one of those fabled old-timey bang-
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old-time funny law that was
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to old-time glues in primary school; the kind that’s
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many would serve God better upon their knees on the old-time Methodist mourners bench than orating in the pulpit
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could be excused for thinking it was one of those old-time
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There was only one thing missing that would have, in his opinion, made this scene complete—an old-timer sitting in one of the rocking chairs picking the Deliverance theme on his banjo
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They didn’t saunter over to the trolls with their chests puffed out and their thumbs in their hip pockets like old-time cowboys ready to draw
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“You got that, old-timer?” Then Alvin said,
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An old-time doctor or pharmacist (or even a good midwife) knew all of these little tricks that are not taught in medical school
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If you are in search of an authentic adventure its old-timer looks and the thick and slow sound of the one cylinder engine can't help but charm you
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An old-time NGO associate, though, insisted that a highly ambitious Kejriwal had a habit of using people and then discarding them
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Credit studied the old-timer as he played
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As a new crew member, all the old-timers felt the sudden urge to recount stories of their travels in space
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” Nevertheless, “Thunder Road” remains an incredible opener to one of rock’s great opuses, weaving together ‘50s and ‘60s rock & pop influences to create a feel that’s simultaneously old-timey and timeless
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“Gimme that old-time religion, alone with the boss,” Scott said, smiling
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If he had expected to recover his old-time equanimity as the case proceeded, he failed
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to be one of the few old-time instructors willing to teach beginners
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I much prefer the old-time slickers I have seen reminis-
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“You got that, old-timer?” Then Alvin said, quite seriously, “My name is Alvin Richardson
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Then the opposing two players both need to bump-receive a ball…and instantly get ready to bump the ball their team mate has gotten… to set their team mate… while he does the same thing for them! And then the two defenders have to do the same thing! Unless only one ball is left in play… in which case it gets boring… Like old-time volley-ball… no action for the TV viewers
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A lot of grace surviving in old-timers
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In the lowly old-timers, I should have said
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There was an old-time cage elevator with glass doors that looked as if it no longer worked
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It was real life that inspires scenes like those in the old-time motion-picture shows, such as Gone With The Wind, From Here to Eternity or Casablanca
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That paddle was whistling Dixie and hymns of wonder, love and praise straight from the old-timey gospel hour
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The technique can be used with persons who are fans of old-time movies; musicals, plays, anything era-oriented
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Our ride dropped us at the general store in the town’s center, a quaint old-timey place where tourists sat eating ice-cream cones on the painted front porch, which was abuzz with a pre–Fourth of July weekend crowd
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“I think her name was Violet, the woman who lived here,” I said to my brother when we mounted the porch, remembering the lore about the house I’d heard from the Finnish old-timers years before
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’s recollection, and some from Doug McInnes, Sequim Yesterday: Local History Through the Eyes of Sequim Old-Timers, self-published in May 2005
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As the door opened, one of the elder ones that carried the lantern was just saying, 'Now then, one, two, three!' and forthwith their shrill little voices uprose on the air, singing one of the old-time carols that their forefathers composed in fields that were fallow and held by frost, or when snow-bound in chimney corners, and handed down to be sung in the miry street to lamp-lit windows at Yule-time
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In the contests that broke out at the end of his rule (which had kept peace in the country for a whole fifteen years) there was more fatuous imbecility, plenty of cruelty and suffering still, but much less of the old-time fierce and blindly ferocious political fanaticism
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His present aspect, coupled with the lack of all human forms in the scene, explained the old-time heliolatries in a moment
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That’s old-time magic, from back to Marco Polo
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He’d taken her for Valentine’s Day to an old-timey resort upstate, and she’d wanted to drive around the next morning to look at property
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You should see it,” he added more to the bartender than me, “it’s like a old-time Hooverville, bonfires and shanties
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Amy’s pictures gave a sense of her actually watching you, like an old-time haunted-house portrait, the eyes moving from left to right
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These newcomers to the corporate world understood things that old-time investors did not
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These differed from the old-time bank-stock purchases in the one vital respect that the buyer did not determine that they were worth the price paid by the application of firmly established standards of value
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Most stock-exchange houses, however, still adhere to the old-time slogans that they are in business to make commissions and that the way to succeed in business is to give the customers what they want
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* Hence that other famous dictum of the old-timers: “Do as I say, not as I do
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These data illustrate, as well as any can, the persistence of the old-time investment viewpoint until the culminating years of the bull market of the 1920s
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Or the small book-value portion can be considered as a sort of minor preferred-stock component of the price, the rest representing exactly the same sort of commitment as the old-time speculator made when he bought Woolworth or U
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It seems a truism to say that the old-time common-stock investor was not much interested in capital gains
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Yet one might argue, perversely, that precisely because the old-time investor did not concentrate on future capital appreciation he was virtually guaranteeing to himself that he would have it, at least in the field of industrial stocks
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He was talking about a classic old-timey eatery on the corner of Twenty-Fourth and York, built almost a hundred years ago
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“So the old-timer is reading Outdoor Life,” Richie said, “and the imam sees him and jumps off the bench and starts running toward the cruiser
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Old-timers down in the Central district still asked me how Marty Boxer was
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He was one of those cynical old-timers
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The drunk old-timer next to him gave him a nudge
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When the last bull in the market throws in the towel and starts shorting CSCO at around $10 a share, more than 90 percent from its bull market peak, then that has to be the bottom! We had heard this from other old-timers in the firm, but it was interesting to see O’Neil actually do this
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Artists and musicians often said they were trying to express the feelings of the people, but the people by and large wanted nothing to do with modern art or music: They preferred old-time waltzes, or light opera, or – if they were really daring – the catchy ragtime tunes coming out of America’s ‘Tin Pan Alley’
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Prince Andrew several times prompted Pierre’s story of what he had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened not only without interest but even as if ashamed of what Pierre was telling him
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She remembered twenty-five years back, her father's voice in that old-time fragment:
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She remembered an old-time song—‘No, no, they can’t take that away from me!’—and sang it, and they laughed as the helicopter lifted them over the green way from country to city
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The old-time soldier would say that discipline would disappear under such a system, but actually the opposite is true
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Mother’s cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance
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“I’ve been told the good old-time Negro sang and danced and was content
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Thus has the old-time hero of the waves been transformed into one fitted to serve as a clown of the vaudeville stage
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The gray house at Orchard Slope was in a turmoil of baking and brewing and boiling and stewing, for there was to be a big, old-timey wedding
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Everybody in the regiment knew of his old-time prowess
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And now the Church appears, failing to give them a moral support, but forcibly teaching old-time paganism,—the Church, with its immutable formulas, endeavoring to thrust men back into the gloom from which they are struggling so earnestly to escape
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Almost every educated man at the present day is striving unconsciously to preserve the old-time conception of society, which justifies his attitude, and to conceal from others and from himself its inconsistencies, chief among which is the necessity of adopting the Christian ideal, which is subversive of the very structure of our social existence
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At other times, if I was alone in the drawing-room and Lubotshka was performing some old-time air, I would find myself laying my book down, and gazing through the open doorway on to the balcony at the pendent, sinuous branches of the tall birch-trees where they stood overshadowed by the coming night, and at the clear sky where, if one looked at it intently enough, misty, yellowish spots would appear suddenly, and then disappear again
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They were all in strange old-time costumes; the ladies in brocades and satins with strings of pearls in their powdered hair, the gentlemen in uniform with knee breeches, swords, and cocked hats held under their arms
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This coterie, which is neither of diplomacy nor yet of old-time Washington, gives special attention to the Bennings track
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A trace of sentiment, conjoined to a deal of pride, had made him revive an old-time stake—the Far and Near
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He felt one of those old-time fits of rage come bristling up the back of his head, the fury of old when he had tried to wither that giddy creature in his spasms of jealousy
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But she would at least have the painful joy of the Brahmin woman’s hope, who trusts by some fresh incantation to secure a blessing, formerly vouchsafed her by the gods, but which now old-time petitions fail to renew
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” She smiled up at him for the first time with her old-time brightness
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And that the twentieth century girl of this sort, even if boxing gloves are love tokens with her, is just the same dear, old-time girl we all love, she proves by her ultimate confession:
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His absence, however, did not prevent their having an “Old-time prayer-meeting,” as they call it
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A colored preacher of the "old-time" sort preached on the Judgment Day
