How To Use Old times In A Sentence

  • A sociable man, there was nothing Peter enjoyed more than a ramble to the houses of his neighbours for a chat about old times.
  • We talked over old times and the changes, and followed each other up to date with a great deal of mutual enjoyment, until the porter demanded the "smokery" for his bunk. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers
  • The four of them carouse, sing raucous songs and reminisce about old times. Ecstasy - review
  • We should all meet up again - just for old times' sake.
  • Former so-called noblemen tenderly remember the good old times when they could cheerfully kick a peasant in the pants. Labor, Labor Movement and Music Speech by Hanns Eisler, 1938
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  • On the night before his film is shown at a local festival, John stops by his old pal Vince's motel room to catch up on old times.
  • Maskings or mummeries were favorite sports at Christmas in old times; and the wardrobes at halls and manor-houses were often laid under contribution to furnish dresses and fantastic disguisings. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
  • One used to see, on the one-horsed omnibus which in old times represented the locomotion of Madrid, _Serbicio de omnibus_ quite as often as _Servicio_. Spanish Life in Town and Country
  • I may be surrounded with a reminder of the old times but chivalry was never my forte and lucky for me no one expected it to be.
  • We got on well just like old times and we shared a taxi home. The Sun
  • In old times it used to be given as an injection for such conditions as cerebral concussion and asphyxia from drowning.
  • Old lines about knights at table in the great banquet halls, and of those above the salt and below the salt, and of Vikings feasting fresh from sea and ripe for battle, came to me; and I knew that the old times were not dead and that we belonged to that selfsame ancient breed. Chapter 16
  • In old times, when man first began to plough the soil, _geus urva_ cried aloud, thinking that his life was threatened, and implored the assistance of the archangels. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
  • * A wamus in old times was a very heavy woollen garment. The Romance of the Colorado River
  • The girl did not look at all like a maiden uneasy about her lost lover, but much more like one enjoying for the moment the immunity from a kind of burthen; and, as she smiled, called for Stephen's help in her little arrangements, and treated him in the friendly manner of old times, he could not but wonder at the panic that had overpowered him for a time like a fever of the mind. The Armourer's Prentices
  • They like remembering the good old times in the spacious room with furniture matching the topic.
  • A tint of sorrow creeps into my mind as I recall the ‘good old times’ that are gone, never to return.
  • I miss the good old times of just talking crap, when you'd big-note yourself and I'd scoff quietly to myself.
  • It is lighted by six windows of modern stained glass, on one side, and by the immense and magnificent arch of another window at the farther end of the room, its rich and ancient panes constituting a genuine historical piece, in which are represented some of the kingly personages of old times, with their heraldic blazonries. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
  • It's fun to get a chance to see everyone again and kind of reminisce about the old times, especially us old, retired guys," Sakic said. CNN.com
  • While I don't suffer from any post-baby drama, I do kill my personal anxiety with an iPod full of music that reminds me of good old times, and I take a healthy jog where I detach from the world. Michael Cohen: Ask Michael Cohen: How To Feel Good Again
  • I sat down next to her and tried to strike up a conversion about old times - but she was aloof and distant.
  • As far as I could discover, the tradition has no foundation, and in old times there was no garden in the hypaethral court. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • B.C. 390 – 389.336 At a later date the Achaeans, being in possession of Calydon, a town from old times belonging to Hellenica
  • We had some laughs as we reminisced of old times and got caught up with news of family members that we have lost contact with.
  • She was a very hard working industrious lady and she loved to chat about old times.
  • They sat in a corner and chatted of old times.
  • In August 1992, with Baby Talk having left the air for good, ABC chose to move Perfect Strangers back to Fridays at 9 pm ET to fill the old timeslot with reruns until the new TGIF season began.
  • Get out the photograph album, remember old times and cry - if that is what feels right for you to do.
  • In old times we find things were frequently valued according to the number of cattle.
  • We will now return to what we call the South, but what was known for many years as the "Main" Building, the old plan of grand structure to face the East, just as the capitols at Washington and Raleigh, were faced under the influence of orientalization was soon abandoned, and the European plan of a quadrangle -- in old times a veritable prison in which the students were locked at night, giving rise to the expression "being in quad," was adopted, probably at the suggestion of Dr. Caldwell and Prof. Page 11 An Address on the History of the Buildings of the University of North Carolina, by Kemp P. Battle, LL. D, President of the University, Delivered on University Day, 1883, in Gerrard Hall
  • Any muggins can write about Old Times on the Miss. of 500 different kinds, but I am the only man alive that can scribble about the piloting of that day--and no man ever has tried to scribble about it yet. Complete Letters of Mark Twain
  • The dilapidation was a pleasing reminiscence of old times, and George was pleased enough to earn a quarter by patching it up. Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)
  • For those that got in, we drank away until the wee small hours and talked of old times, japes and larks.
  • In the old times, the animals and birds liked to play ball, and they shouted and hallooed just as players do to-day.
  • The narrow defile up which we were passing is called, according to Mateo, el Barranco de la tinaja, or the ravine of the jar, because a jar full of Moorish gold was found here in old times. The Alhambra
  • Our paths crossed by chance one morning and we chatted about old times. The Sun
  • Get out the photograph album, remember old times and cry - if that is what feels right for you to do.
  • In old times, the _bne Elohim_ and the seraphim are His court, and the angels are alike the court and the army of God; the cherubim are his throne-bearers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
  • It's all a hangover from old times. Somewhere East of Life
  • Amid warm bear hugs and backslapping, the ex-army officer relived those old times and exchanged pleasantries with the serving officers.
  • It's all a hangover from old times. Somewhere East of Life
  • We talked of old times like other women do, our feet steaming in front of the stove where we sat underneath neat bunches of drying thyme, rosemary, yarrow, and oregano.
  • In old times when the houses were draftier they was troublesome about flickering, candles was; but land! think how comfortable we live now to what we used to! A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches
  • Our paths crossed by chance one morning and we chatted about old times. The Sun
  • If we have enjoyed the moonlight in pleasant scenes, in happy hours, with friends that we loved, – though the sight of it may not always make us directly remember them, yet it brings with it a waft from the feeling of the old times, – sweet as long as life lasts! The Wide, Wide World
  • She also enjoyed reading the newspapers and neighbours calling in for a cup of tea and chatting about old times.
  • He opened them and continued on talking about the old times, about memories not long ago buried by sadness and bitterness.
  • He and Connie had laughed it up in the driveway, ending up kissing like old times sitting on the back stoop under starlight, half-frozen. Blues Machine
  • The mossback is the man who tries to use the old methods under the new conditions; he is not "up" with the present times, but "back" with the old times. Chapters in Rural Progress
  • For those that got in, we drank away until the wee small hours and talked of old times, japes and larks.
  • Realmes, lands & dominions hath bene of old times hitherto continued nor nothing by our said soueraigne Lord the king or his people to be attempted or done whereby such amities by reason of any dissensions, enemities or discords might be broken: by the aduise of the Lords spintuall & temporall & of the comons of his said Realme of England, assembled in this present The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • I know we're a backward second-rate country now, but let us have some crumbs from the cookie for old times 'sake. An Apple a Day
  • Are we justified in concluding, then, that in the "good old times" of our great-grandmothers -- that idyllic time when women must have been at least free from the reproach that they, solely and unaided, were destroying the hopes of the race -- that myopic, hypermetropic and astigmatic eyes were not in existence? The Education of American Girls
  • These served to establish claims, to recall old friendship, to jog the memory about old times.
  • She is suitably horrified when her childhood friend turns up on her doorstep looking to relive old times - and borrow a bit of cash.
  • The day we visit, we are caught between an American tour group and a group of retired upper class Copts who have come to smoke shisha and gossip about old times.
  • In the good old times they were as scrupulously exact in these matters, as they are now most blamably lax. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3
  • She was among the most senior citizens in the Williamstown region and had a wealth of knowledge in relation to old customs, traditions and old times.
  • It was just like old times, and there was just enough little girl left in me to be thrilled by the touch of the milky-white pearls, so smooth and silky in my hands. The Dark Side of Innocence
  • EVERYBODY has heard of the Cave of St. Cyprian at Salamanca, where in old times judicial astronomy, necromancy, chiromancy, and other dark and damnable arts were secretly taught by an ancient sacristan; or, as some will have it, by the devil himself, in that disguise. The Alhambra
  • In an echo of the bad old times, more than 200 fans gathered outside afterwards to vent their spleen.
  • Our paths crossed by chance one morning and we chatted about old times. The Sun
  • Many people delighted in taking Sunday walks out Sherman avenue and dropping into the malthouse where they drank several beers, chatted about old times, and then resumed their journeys. ... Archive 2008-12-01
  • His wry, bladelike smile returned, and for a moment it felt like old times. My Fair Succubi
  • We got on well just like old times and we shared a taxi home. The Sun
  • He had been rumoured to have said that he missed his homeboys and the old times.
  • This imp was called a boggart in the old times, now we call such by other names -- ill-temper, meanness, uncharitableness, and the like. Pepper & Salt or, Seasoning for Young Folk
  • To lift them they did, senators four, by the first quaint skreek of the gloaming and they hopped it up the mountainy molehill, traversing climes of old times gone by of the days not worth remembering; inventing some excusethems, any sort, having a sevenply sweat of night blues moist upon them. Finnegans Wake
  • Our paths crossed by chance one morning and we chatted about old times. The Sun
  • Live Girls" by Ray Garton - Fun 80's splatterpunk book set in sleazy old Times Square Voice of the Fans: What Book Have You Recently Read That's Good Enough To Recommend To a Friend?
  • In thinking over the old times, when people slept in feather-beds, with closed windows, and, sometimes, a stove burning in the room, we wonder that our grandparents did not die of asphyxiation.
  • It was then the custom, to prevent any coarse pleasantry which old times perhaps admitted, that the key of the nuptial chamber should be entrusted to the bridesman. The Bride of Lammermoor
  • Anyone that remembers the eighties is encouraged to come along and relive the good old times.
  • (Penobscot.) _N'karnayoo_, of old times: _Woodenit atok hagen_ Algonquin Legends of New England
  • Mary-Louisa could not help admitting in her heart that the old times had been better times; they had been "jollier" she said. Married
  • ‘We were merely prosing about old times.’
  • I dreamed about having a bowl of fired egg noodle last night. The dream remind me old times in China.
  • As a country woman many of her articles reflected that background, recalling old times and customs.
  • Its simplest form had probably been a kind of fagot of brushwood, -- _ramazza_, or a besom, not much unlike the rapid locomotive of witches, who were called in old times _ramassières_, from their supposed practice of riding on a _ramée_, _ramasse_, or besom. Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
  • This one was from a different time period and its skirt ballooned, very much like a ball gown a princess of the old times might wear.
  • We will now return to what we call the South, but what was known for many years as the "Main" Building, the old plan of grand structures to face the East, just as the capitols at Washington and Raleigh, were faced under the influence of orientalization was soon abandoned, and the European plan of a quadrangle -- in old times a veritable prison in which the students were locked at night, giving rise to the expression "being in quad," was adopted, probably at the suggestion of Dr. Caldwell and Prof. Harris, who were educated at Princeton. Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians
  • We got on well just like old times and we shared a taxi home. The Sun
  • The old machine was soon cruising at warp speed and we sat back and reminisced about the old times.
  • Any muggins can write about Old Times on the Miss of 500 different kinds, but I am the only man alive that can scribble about the piloting of that day—& no man has ever tried to scribble about it yet. Mark Twain
  • A tint of sorrow creeps into my mind as I recall the ‘good old times’ that are gone, never to return.

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