How To Use Fogy In A Sentence
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I was a very old lady - much of my physical strength abated - and old people by reason of age were almost sure to become garrulous, talked too much (if they have impatient kinspeople) and were set in their ways of thinking as well as of saying and doing things, and are old-fogyish in regard to modern methods and activities.
Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,
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It was formed in the beginning by a number of seceders from the local Women's Club, who, disappointed in their office-seeking ambitions and deeming the club old-fashioned and old-fogyish in its ideas, had elected to form an organization of their own.
Cap'n Dan's Daughter
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It was to Ray he promptly opened his heart, as that veteran of a dozen Indian campaigns, then drawing his fourth "fogy," came hastening out to join the commander.
A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
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Some are lively, some dull, some progressive, some old-fogyish, some moral, some immoral -- the result of the character of the early settlers and leading spirits, of the place in question.
Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers
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Later i tried to charge it back up (my memory of these events is kind of fogy but i'll do the best i can to recount) it seemed like the battery wouldn't hold a charge.
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And after that Job thought the preacher at Gold City was a little old fogyish.
The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
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For those of you searching for a safe reason to lambaste Twilight: New Moon without sounding like a grumpy old fogy, Asylum. com has the answer: New Moon‘s werewolves simply aren’t werewolves.
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Of course that was 22 years ago and thereafter we sank hopelessly back into old fogydom, but we do remember that high mark.
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Yeah, but neither of us is old enough really to be a fogy about this.
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If you suggest that artists should create beautiful things, you risk being branded an old fogy.
Beauty That's No Illusion
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Not all popular writers were the old fogy of the feudalist society and many of them were influenced by Western ideology and some of them were even revolutionaries.
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I was old-fogyish enough to suppose that in your official capacity you were the servant of the people, and that both
The Democratic Hand Book. 1898. Prepared by the State Democratic Executive Committee of North Carolina
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We, who can recall the consulship of Plancus, and quite respectable, old-fogyfied times, remember amongst other amusements which we had as children the pictures at which we were permitted to look.
John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character
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Doubtless he is old-fogyish but from his long association with our family he knows the Forsyth traditions and what the head of the House of Forsyth should be.
Red-Robin
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We are thought of, and not infrequently referred to by our contemporaries, as old-fogyish, and out of date.
The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921
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I won't have you call yourself old -- or fogyish, either!
Raspberry Jam
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Suddenly it occurs to you there are worse possibilities out there than having your musical tastes and fashion sense consigned to the junk heap of fogydom.
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Carelessness is engendered by the thought that such work can be handled in a rough and rapid way, and, further, by the ridicule of all these things, which we have learned to be careful about, as old-fogyish, out-of-fashion, and archaic.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXXII, June, 1911 Water Purification Plant, Washington, D. C. Results of Operation.
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The hoarse grating sound of the saw, the whistling of the plane, and the stroke of the mallet denoted the presence of the carpenter; and the sharper clink of a hammer told of old Fogy, the family "milliner," being at work; but it was not on millinery Fogy was now employed, though neither was it legitimate tinker's work.
Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life
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‘The soccer was never sold out when I was a kid,’ I said, lunging irrevocably into the world of fogydom the instant the words left my lips.
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Then again, at least Milner is trying to be of use; he's an old-fashioned kind of fogy that way.
The Kids Are All Right
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This is Fogy, the milliner, sir, "said he to Furlong, whose surprise was further increased, when, in the person of the man called the milliner, he beheld a tinker.
Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes
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Where did this old fogy come from, they just forgot all about this war.
Rumsfeld says Obama made 'bald misstatement'
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And this frank admission ought to show that I am not your mere twaddling laudator temporis acti — your old fogy who can see no good except in his own time.
Roundabout Papers
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Most of the other critics seemed to get the movie better than old fogy Roger Ebert did.
Opening Today: Kick-Ass Morally Reprehensible?
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No philosopher would jettison Plato just because it's old fashioned, nor would anyone mock the old fogy Whitman.
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David might some day come to know that there was a fogyish, bachelor doctor who was almost a father in the same sort of way -- almost, but not quite, for the child had been left not to him, but to her.
A Melody in Silver
