How To Use Old country In A Sentence
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It belonged to her grandmother from the old country, who in her youth kept a collection of jewel damselflies.
Cat People #9: Tales of Manhattan
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I'm from a fundie background myself, and still have many afflicted family members back in the old country.
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Attached to the rustic old country house hotel was a gallery and a deli where we bought a mid-morning feast of focaccia, Persian feta and relish.
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It was located on an old country place of four hundred acres of pineland, with numerous springs, and the building was very large and handsome.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
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'Twas bad enough in the old country, where we knew our places, even though some was ambitioned to get out of them; but here it's like blind man's buff, and enough to turn a body giddy.
People of the Whirlpool
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Old country doctors used a device called a poultice to draw out the infectious pus or poison to the surface in a crude but honest attempt to cure.
The "Anonymous" Super Patriots are crawling out of the mud!
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A couple of Italian wine bottles and maps of the Old Country had been scattered over the walls in a vain attempt to give the place, formerly a steak restaurant, a Mediterranean feel.
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Harvey Keitel plays Charlie, the wiseguy dandy, a Catholic uneasily preoccupied by eternal damnation, but employed as a novice enforcer by his Uncle, a capo from the old country.
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I still like the story of the time when an old countryman met a bureaucrat down a country lane.
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The reason he wrote the word down was because he was trying to convince other Englishmen to pull up stakes in the old country and help swell the European population in the settlement.
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The museum is located in Mariposa, which had some of the Gold Country's richest strikes.
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They did not like what they called my ambitious ways -- and so they sent me to the Cold Country.
Tarrano the Conqueror
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It rests with the re-United States, by a just and successful treatment of the still formidable negro question, [B] to persuade unreluctant minds in the Old Country that slavery is, in very deed, the unmitigated wrong and nuisance which they used to reckon it; and those who have sympathized with the North look confidently for this ultimate result.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
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I look at the old country as it was in my youth and as it is today and, to use a fine Scots word, I am scunnered.
The last testament of Flashman’s creator: How Britain has destroyed itself « Isegoria
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Mountain bikes and hiking boots have replaced picks and pans in this Gold Country town.
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Little kids play hopscotch on the floor tiles, babies swat at the fish in the aquarium in the entranceway, and all kinds of folks swarm about hoping for a taste of the old country.
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Hordes of wrinkly Europeans, mostly without SS helmets or any other headgear come to that, driving motor scooters like hooligans which would get them locked up in the old country.
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Then a man could study its customs with undivided soul; but being so very near next door, he goes about the land with one eye on the smoke of the flesh-pots of the old country across the seas, while with the other he squints biliously and prejudicially at the alien.
American Notes
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Nothing impressed me more in the Old Country than the fact that every man I had special reason to respect, educators, one or two statesmen and my one most respected friend -- every "man jack" of them, without exception, at the base of his mind, was thinking of the fundamental problem of spiritual resynthesis -- the reinspiration of a faith that has been lost.
The Commonwealth as Educator
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If you're too embarrassed to go out and buy old country music, get this one - you won't lose your cred.
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The chance to dance the night away comes on March 2 with a right old country hoedown to be held in Ryston sports and social club.
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A listed 300-year-old country manor house surrounded by woods and fields.
The Sun
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He had more than O'Connell's dread to pass irretrievably outside the law, although he might not have scrupled to drive the proverbial carriage and six through law's usual dubieties of expression, particularly in certain sections of the Victorian Education Acts. As one of the earliest Irish colonists from the old country, he soon rose to the leading position amongst his fellow-colonist Irishmen.
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
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In this case, the wife is not merely Muslim, she’s a fanatic Muslim who, moreover, was just kind of mellowing along until her visit to the old country.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Wife’s “Anti-American Sentiments” (and Perhaps Anti-Semitic Sentiments)
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“You can get the best pastrami in Oradea, in the old country.”
Rogue Oracle
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The wide-ranging project will allow visitors to try their hands at age-old country crafts with the help of trained demonstrators.
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Perhaps the old countryman had an idea when he said: ‘Farmers should suck their own blood and cut out the supermarkets altogether.’
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When they started applauding me in the great halls of Old Country, he got worried.
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“How many generations do people think those frontiersmen were from the Old Country?”
When What We Think We Know, Is Actually Wrong at SF Novelists
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A listed 300-year-old country manor house surrounded by woods and fields.
The Sun
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The reasons behind this may well be the influence of their parents' overcompensation for their distance from the old country, in the way they try to reconstruct that culture for their children's upbringing.
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Nearly 200,000 men of Irish parentage fought there, and when the war ended, some headed for the old country, conspicuous in their felt hats and square-toed shoes.
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I had this old habit of speeding along the old country roads late at night and dipping my headlights before going around corners or going over the brows of hills.
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In old country-houses in England, instead of glass for windows, they used wicker, or fine strips of oak disposed checkerwise.
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1
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The aviophobia he suffered from kept him on the ground, dreaming of living out his life as an old country doc.
Starfleet Academy: The Edge
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She's generally fairly unhip, and looked uber-trendy in an of-the-moment peasant ensemble that both our ancestors would not have paid two roubels for in the Old Country.
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As the old countryman would say: ‘Well, it's better than nowt, but it's nowhere near mother's milk.’
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Because every hotel and inn and ryokan and minshuku within a very large radius was fully booked for the two nights of the festival, Echo and I had booked a room in Nagatoro, about a half-dozen stops away on the old country line railroad.
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She seems to have found an identity here; a commonality of purpose; a collective longing for the old country and known gods and familiar people.
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She had walked up with a Mr. Crowe, from Peterborough, a young, brisk-looking farmer, in breeches and top-boots, just out from the old country, who, naturally enough, thought he would like to roost among the woods.
Roughing It in the Bush
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A change of citizenship did not of course imply a divorce from the old country.
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A change of citizenship did not of course imply a divorce from the old country.
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America had become an English-speaking colony, settled by emigrants from the Old Country who had largely supplanted its aboriginal population.
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I had this old habit of speeding along the old country roads late at night and dipping my headlights before going around corners or going over the brows of hills.
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Let me remind you that my great-grandfather immigrated from the Old Country, risking the high waters of the Atlantic and hiding his glaucoma from the medical inspectors at Ellis Island, just so he could be part of an old-fashioned democracy.
Ilana Ross: Why Won't You Join Me In Voting? An Open Letter to A "Non-Voter"
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I stood again on the - remembered terrace, and looked once more at the peaceful old country house.
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Early American settlers, especially New England Protestants, adorned their Calvinist-styled worship with psalms taken from metrical psalters brought along from the old country.
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Instead of an old country there is a continent made up of lands that were divvied up and named by European and Middle Eastern conquerors.
Walter Mosley Talks About 47
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old country
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Not my grandmother, who knew every folktale from the old countrymost of them gruesome; children devoured by wolves and beheaded by witchesbut never spoke about the war in my hearing.
Excerpt: City of Thieves by David Benioff
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Cavernous and rambling, possessed of uninterrupted views of the Coney Island parachute jump, and with what my cousin still calls "ripply walls" (faux stucco), the place had sat unoccupied for a few years except for all of my grandparents' furniture, my grandmother's clothes, bags of long-forgotten photographs from the Old Country taken right before Hitler marched into Poland, and a jar of two year old gefilte fish sitting in the (thankfully still running) refrigerator.
Elissa Altman: Why Brooklyn Needs to Be Careful
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But for American Scots pining for a taste of the old country, there's nothing like a haggis from Scotland and that's where the smugglers come in.
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How many generations do people think those frontiersmen were from the Old Country?
When What We Think We Know, Is Actually Wrong at SF Novelists
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As an old countryman, I have never had an inclination to hunt, but to compare traditional hunting to ‘sports’ like pig-sticking and cock-fighting is offensive.
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On weekends the cafe is crowded with families, many of whom come for the specials, such as bacalao guisado (codfish stew), mondongo (tripe soup), and, for those craving the flavors of the old country,
Chicago Reader
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Some gaitered old countryman with little grey whiskers, neat, weathered and firm-featured; or one of those short-necked John Bulls, still extant, square and weighty, with a flat top to his head, and a flat white topper on it!
The Silver Spoon
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It was not to build a new civilization-our culture and our civilization is simply a transplanted culture and a transplanted civilization from the Old Country, and to us England means what it does to you.
The United States Faces the Future
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Songs performed by women country singers of the 1960s and 1970s that promoted motherhood, chastity, monogamy, and child rearing outsold country songs about women expressing their sexuality, cheating on their mates, dancing at honky-tonks, or drinking.
A Renegade History of the United States
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In city and countryside alike it was agreed that the noblewoman was a sorceress, one of power the like of which had not been seen since the days when the Old Country still reigned.
Through Wolfs Eyes
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Yet, for all its faded paintwork, it is nonetheless the sort of place that reeks of the old country, of back streets in the Italy of my youthful summers.
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But the old country folks still eat persimmons too.
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He's a learner from the old country – a tzadik, a saint; but every time he sees in the street a child with torn feet, he calls them in and patches them up.
Hungry Hearts
