Old in A Sentence

    1

    A band tooted practice blasts, someone was yelling directions through an old fashioned megaphone, which were ignored, and Suzanne, whose nightly music show serenaded the tourists, warmed up the Star Spangled Banner in a voice that needed no mike.

    2

    A blue haired old lady with a walker and her mate hauling an oxygen tank looked at me as If I was the Boston strangler.

    3

    A car was parked in front of me, an old Ford.

    4

    A comfortable bed replaced the cot utilized in Peabody and absolute darkness proved more conducive to sleep than the leaked light that often snuck into our old quarters.

    5

    A favor from an old friend who doesn't want to see you in pain.

    6

    A kindly old man researched it for me.

    7

    A man Dean didn't recognize turned around and shook his hand before starting the old car.

    8

    A man was waiting for me at the old house - a man with red hair.

    9

    A man who has at length found something to do will not need to get a new suit to do it in; for him the old will do, that has lain dusty in the garret for an indeterminate period.

    10

    A metal roof replaced the old shingles.

    11

    A sprawling castle with thick walls, an old portcullis, and torches glowing along the walls rose up before them.

    12

    After a nod of her head, Paulette's hand shot up and the auctioneer all but cheered as he looked about for another sucker, his voice sounding like an old Lucky Strike commercial.

    13

    All I do is pull the battery and store the old gal together with half my gear and the next summer she's as raring and ready as I am.

    14

    All that July the old prince was exceedingly active and even animated.

    15

    All that wasn't bad enough, but she had to drag up that old rumor – and I thought you believed it.

    16

    All who reach old age must lose their strength and become like him, feeble and gray.

    17

    Almost anybody could rig up an old boat like that.

    18

    Amid boxes, lamps, and glassware of every description sat the old man, atop a trunk, snuggled between the two maiden ladies from Indiana.

    19

    An old Cat was in a fair way to kill all the Mice in the barn.

    20

    An old sickle mower and rake with their high metal seats were the only items she recognized.

    21

    An older man with dementia left to rot and finally die in an old folks' home.

    22

    And each visitor, though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not return to her the whole evening.

    23

    And that old furniture she brought here.

    24

    And the words of the old minister came true.

    25

    And where would someone get clothes so old and dirty?

    26

    And, by Dean's interpretation, agreeing the old bitch got what she deserved.

    27

    Another woman, a very tall blond, stood a few paces back, a smile on her face, watching the old man.

    28

    As a matter of fact, he hadn't said that since he spent half the night with his old flame.

    29

    As if on cue, an old car with more rust than clear metal chugged to a stop at the dollar store.

    30

    At barely ten years old, he'd been too weak to fight off full-grown men, too weak to protect her.

    31

    At dinner that day, on Dessalles' mentioning that the French were said to have already entered Vitebsk, the old prince remembered his son's letter.

    32

    At first I didn't think so, but the fact that he had the old suicide note with him makes me think he at least considered it, if the opportunity presented itself .

    33

    At least at this point, the old house was paying for itself.

    34

    At least you live here in Ouray and have a business, even if Bird Song is only a year old.

    35

    At ten years old, Jonathan was almost as tall as she was.

    36

    At twenty-six years old, she must've done something pretty bad in a past life to deserve this.

    37

    Before old Pop Dawkins croaked, those guys hardly spoke to each other.

    38

    Belle, our dog, my other companion, was old and lazy and liked to sleep by the open fire rather than to romp with me.

    39

    Benjamin Franklin lived to be a very old man, but he never forgot that lesson.

    40

    Besides, I still have some of my old supply of Tums.

    41

    Betsy lined up two likely abductions and she was anxious to get started, Quinn had already performed his part, setting his apparatus appropriately for a rural Iowa location where a twelve year old boy had gone missing.

    42

    Blackie had this old Ford, too, and he was teaching me to drive it.

    43

    Both Deans heard it but the old man appeared not to have noticed.

    44

    Both men felt the old man had probably killed him, but Westlake's brief disclosure was insufficient to pursue the matter and as both men were dead, there was little incentive to do so.

    45

    Brandon Westlake sighed, the tiredness in his old body apparent.

    46

    Brandon Westlake was portrayed as a delusional old man bent on killing any and all witnesses to his half-century-old deed.

    47

    But even old Mr. O'Connor at least had a name.

    48

    But I sure took a close look at my old man's will.

    49

    But if there was an old skeleton up there, I wonder whose it could be?

    50

    But periodically he forgot the utter uselessness of arguing with the opinionated old man.

    51

    But suddenly, at a narrow place, they met a very old man, hobbling slowly along over the stony way.

    52

    By the midpoint of the twentieth century, America's dreamers were preoccupied with the future—and not just any old future, but the great and glorious future that seemed inevitable.

    53

    By the time we became an item, my mother was dead and there was no reason in his mind to resurrect old ghosts.

    54

    Cade launched into an investigation of the old truck while Cynthia and Mary caught up on the latest gossip.

    55

    Carmen held the gate open as the old truck sputtered through - and then died.

    56

    Carmen saw Alex's truck parked in the drive of an old vacant house where she had admired some healthy quince bushes.

    57

    Clearing up some old cases, are you?

    58

    Come on down, Old Dan Tucker.

    59

    Connor's 22 year old sister Deborah immediately displayed her attraction to Jackson.

    60

    Cynthia and the old man do more running Bird Song than you and I'll bet you could use the dough.

    61

    Cynthia asked "They were old cigarettes—not like Patsy smokes," she said and then added quickly, "gotta go."

    62

    Cynthia looked to her husband for agreement but before he could second her suggestion, Westlake once again jammed the old vehicle in gear.

    63

    Cynthia smiled, remembering the early-days' confusion of opening the bed and breakfast, two newlyweds and one old man, operating on piggy bank finances and not an ounce of experience among them.

    64

    Cynthia's speech about Billy Langstrom seemed as old as the Gettysburg Address, but far less remembered.

    65

    Dad's old truck had been sitting at Mary's since it broke down.

    66

    Darkyn was old enough to read the compass.

    67

    David Dean, without a remote control, had difficulty with the TV and these two old fogies were out surfing the net like a couple of Silicon Valley youngsters.

    68

    Dean called as he neared the boy and old man.

    69

    Dean climbed the stairs to the old man's room.

    70

    Dean could picture him and the old man breaking into the storage building in the dead of night.

    71

    Dean couldn't think of any reason not to confirm its authenticity to the old man and did so.

    72

    Dean didn't even offer a quip about Fred's tightness with a buck and his moth-eaten purse as the old man called over a waitress to do the duties.

    73

    Dean didn't press the old man for whatever he knew nor did Fred offer any information.

    74

    Dean had trouble remembering who was who but all were of like mind in their affection for the old man who turned up the charm meter a notch or two.

    75

    Dean hoped Edith would tell the old witch where to stuff it, but instead she looked as if she had just won an auction bid for a coronation gown.

    76

    Dean knew Fred was chomping at the bit to dig into this caper, as he called it, but just to flip his switch a bit, Dean started the conversation with the old man's love life.

    77

    Dean knew the old man was itching to raise the more important topic of Jerome Shipton's death.

    78

    Dean left the cell confident that the old man was coping, but he was beginning to mirror Fred's concern with his past.

    79

    Dean paid no mind that the old man wasn't in the know about the latest Hollywood styles and so informed him.

    80

    Dean pulled out the photocopies of the old newspaper ads requesting information on Josh published first by Edith Plotke and later by her father.

    81

    Dean smiled and gave the old man a pat on the arm.

    82

    Dean thought before answering, wondering how much to admit to Donald Ryland, regressing back to his old detective days.

    83

    Dean wanted Fred to answer the damned thing but the old man was too nosy to move.

    84

    Dean was more than pleased to hear his old friend's voice.

    85

    Dean was reluctant to admit it, but the old gent had met with some success.

    86

    Dean was sure the old man and his dilapidated old Scout had done this a thousand times before.

    87

    Dean was thankful they both wore old hiking boots as they stepped forward, gazing with trepidation as the cool breath of the mine met them.

    88

    Death … you used to take care of the really old angels, and Gabe visited the little ones all the time.

    89

    Death is going old school.

    90

    Destiny would be two years old before long.

    91

    Did she think Giddon was implying that she was getting old?

    92

    Do you know how old the guy is?

    93

    Don't mean old times are better than new times.

    94

    Don't try to fool and old fool.

    95

    Donnie joined the old man in the back office.

    96

    During the interim we learned the sad news of the death of the Alabama Deputy Sheriff who was shot multiple times after stopping the kidnapper of eight year old Jennifer Morley.

    97

    Eric was a seven year old who was abducted by a couple and held for ransom.

    98

    Find all the old men that live on the mountains or in the flat country around, and command them to appear before me one week from to-day.

    99

    Fine. I am three hundred and twelve years old.

    100

    Fitzgerald answered but Dean intervened, grabbing the old man's arm.

    101

    For working quarters we secured a thirty year old building, recently vacated, on the beautiful main street of Keene.

    102

    Forget anything much more than forty-eight hours old and anything where a nearly exact time of abduction isn't known.

    103

    Forty years old and having a baby!

    104

    Frankie Lloyd Cummings was a fifty year old drifter who killed teenage runaways.

    105

    Fred and his juvenile helpers had located a picture of Reverend Martin and his wife in an old museum collection of early Ouray papers and photos.

    106

    Fred had taken care of the early morning chores as Dean poured himself his first cup of coffee, dreading the inquisition he knew would be forthcoming from the old man.

    107

    Fred just snorted, but Dean noted the old man didn't deny the question.

    108

    Fred, I know you're an old geezer, but Roosevelt died during World War Two.

    109

    Fred's freebie hookup was the only show in town, in the mind of the rich old cheapskate.

    110

    Fully alert, he listened, but heard only night noises, the ticking of the hall clock, a slight breeze, the ever-present furnace rumbling heat to the old building.

    111

    Gabriel understood why the old standard was gone.

    112

    Get your ass down here and drag this old coot home!

    113

    Gladys Turnbull was pounding away on a lap top computer in a corner of the parlor while young Martha and Donnie played a game of Old Maid on the sofa.

    114

    Good old Jerome has a knack for making enemies.

    115

    Guess I'm just too old.

    116

    Hannah had succeeded in landing a big fish blueblood, a descendant of Italian royalty, whose old money placated the chilly welcome she received into a lifestyle far, far different from her own.

    117

    Having everyone run her life was getting old.

    118

    He basically followed old agriculture; he planted a lot of seed and hoped for rain.

    119

    He called me an old fool.

    120

    He chatted nonstop about the good old long-past summers.

    121

    He closed the door to Brandon Westlake and told the old photographer-antique collector to come back after nine o'clock, claiming a need to do his own Internet work.

    122

    He coaxed one melody after another from the old piano, and then finally he folded the lid down.

    123

    He could hear the strains of some lost cowboy lover coming from Fred's room, a sure sign the door to the old man's room was open.

    124

    He gave no indication he and his mother were leaving and joined Fred at the table when the old man offered him a bowl of cereal.

    125

    He had been helping train her, and when she was old enough to have a foal, it would be his.

    126

    He had red hair and drove a blue truck – I think maybe an old Ford, but it might have been a Chevy.

    127

    He had this funny, prissy way of talking, old fashioned-like... using big words when he didn't have to, always trying to impress.

    128

    He has filled the old skins of dogma with the new wine of love, and shown men what it is to believe, live and be free.

    129

    He is seventy-six years old!

    130

    He knew where the old North Church stood, but he could not see much in the darkness.

    131

    He lifted a small soul-tracking device off the table, a round compass whose edges were lined with symbols from a dead language too old for him to read.

    132

    He looks to be about twelve years old.

    133

    He owed Fred a "gotcha" after the hard time he'd given the old man about his electronic sales adventures.

    134

    He paused before saying he thought Howie suspected it might have been Molly's father or some old boyfriend.

    135

    He raised the topic as much to take Cynthia's mind off Martha's departure as from any serious concern about the old man.

    136

    He simply made no attempt - so unlike Alex – at least the old Alex.

    137

    He smiled beneath his handlebar moustache, a scene from the old west.

    138

    He stopped Fred when the old man began to excuse himself.

    139

    He too congratulated the old man.

    140

    He walked a familiar path to a graveyard so old, not even legends remained about its location or the importance of those buried there.

    141

    He walked up and down the river bank, leading his horse behind him; but he kept his eyes turned always toward the dim, dark spot which he knew was the old North Church.

    142

    He was a very little boy, but before he was three years old he could read quite well.

    143

    He was gracious and gentle with the old woman.

    144

    He was hundreds of thousands of mortal years old, but less than half a dozen in angel years.

    145

    He was not old enough to be a soldier, but he could be a scout--and a good scout he was.

    146

    He was old, but not Indian-old.

    147

    He was quiet for a while and when she glanced up at him, he was looking off toward the old house.

    148

    He would have hauled Fred along for company, but the old man had a date, so Dean was on his own.

    149

    He would never feed on a woman under 21 years old.

    150

    He'd long since stopped trying to escape, knowing the magic of Hell and the Dark One was too old for him to break.

    151

    He'll let the old guy out tomorrow morning.

    152

    He's just like our old man.

    153

    He's not going to get her committed without a few miles of red tape but just the threat of a lockup could drag her back to old Virginia.

    154

    He's thirty-six years old and starting life over; he's an empty box.

    155

    Her gaze settled on the statue of Rhyn, whose large eyes held an ominous look too old for his chubby little face.

    156

    Her old man beats her like a tin drum and he's gonna kill her if he finds where she is.

    157

    Her words fed at the small piece of him that didn.t want to live in Hell forever, that still thought he could go back to the Immortals and his old life.

    158

    Here in dwells an old man with whom I would like to converse.

    159

    Here was this guy—yes, an old married guy— who listened when I said something.

    160

    Here was this old geezer acting like I was a human being.

    161

    Hey, how old are you anyway?

    162

    His old man was a miner and lived in Ouray when Fitzgerald was a kid—a snot-nosed bully, I suspect.

    163

    His replacement early morning audience consisted of two old ladies from Indiana who'd just checked in, Pumpkin Green, and Paulette Dawkins.

    164

    His soul was … lost soon after we threw your old body into the deepest chasm in the mortal world.

    165

    His tone and expression awoke an old unwelcome feeling.

    166

    Holdings hands like an old world family; we were committing our lives together like marriage vows.

    167

    How many seventeen year old virgins do you know?

    168

    How old are you?

    169

    How old is Grasso?

    170

    How old is he?

    171

    How old is the compass?

    172

    How old was Howie?

    173

    How old was she when she died?

    174

    How old were you?

    175

    However, it begged the question of what had caused the old guy so much concern in the first place.

    176

    Howie is kind of tired and the old lady, his mother, isn't doing well.

    177

    Howie surprised us all by buying a fairly large home north west of town on the Old Walpole Road.

    178

    I always thought he felt more pity than love for the old lady.

    179

    I been trying to find out some poop about that guy on the Internet but it's a whole lot easier checking out hundred year old folks than living ones.

    180

    I do feel better but I'll still be glad when things get back to normal and I'm comfortable my mother is her old self again.

    181

    I drove south toward town on the West Surry Road but instead of following Court Street, turned back north west on the Old Walpole to Howie's home.

    182

    I figured these abductions mirror some old case, and then there's a time break of a few years, like he was away.

    183

    I got the word from this friend, an old maid clerk who likes me 'cause I didn't treat her like shit like everyone else does.

    184

    I guess he couldn't picture himself in my old jalopy.

    185

    I have never told you how old I am.

    186

    I haven't been this frightened since I was seven years old and got locked in our cellar.

    187

    I just didn't see any point in spending money on new clothes when my old ones still had a lot of wear in them.

    188

    I lined up behind an old fellow whose odor almost caused me to skip the meal entirely but I stuck with it and was rewarded by a tasty bowl of chicken soup and a fresh baked roll.

    189

    I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated from long housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn; great trunk, little trunk, bandbox, and bundle.

    190

    I looked up the ownership but the records were nearly fifty years old.

    191

    I love old cars.

    192

    I love the old geezer but the few times he starts talking about the old days, I tune him out.

    193

    I made a terrified noise that brought Viny, my old nurse, to the rescue.

    194

    I mean, he's a twenty eight year old man, for heavens' sake.

    195

    I mentioned finding the old name of Willard Humphries and asked if Brennan could check if he'd been released.

    196

    I mentioned how this here place was a boarding house in the old days and now it's a fine bed and breakfast.

    197

    I really ought to go down to the jail and visit with the old guy.

    198

    I remember seeing some pictures of Granddad on an old rake like that.

    199

    I saw you pick up the old gentleman— the juror.

    200

    I spoke with a nice lady at the new paper but she said all the old records were in some basement.

    201

    I started checking my old man's papers and I found these reports— way back when he first bought the property.

    202

    I started to move along the sidewalk and an old man stepped out of a doorway and passed right through me!

    203

    I think I'm feeling a bit like a dirty old man.

    204

    I think it's wonderful that you have preserved an old way of life.

    205

    I thought the old man might want it.

    206

    I thought we agreed there was no point in using your mother's old dishes when we could just serve our food from the pans we cook it in?

    207

    I understand from Dawkins' son his old man was paying Josh pretty well to be his mine manager—up until August of 1961 when Josh disappeared.

    208

    I want assurances from you and that horrid old Mr. O'Connor that the integrity of my family name will not be stained with unproven lies!

    209

    I was enthralled—an eighteen year old at the time, but I never forgot him.

    210

    I was growing to love this town, with its simple history, proud of its old homes and field stone fences, telling the world it was a place worth staying.

    211

    I wouldn't want to see an old man cry.

    212

    I'll beat Old Prickly, all right.

    213

    I'll go back to being good old Martha but indulge me tonight, will you?

    214

    I'll try to dig up an old case file if you decide you want my help.

    215

    I'm about to go blind reading them old microfilm newspapers.

    216

    I'm an old man.

    217

    I'm going back to the old place in the mountains.

    218

    I'm not going to ride in some old buggy and make a fool of myself!

    219

    I'm not old enough to know how, Dusty said, convinced Talon was psychotic in addition to sadistic.

    220

    I'm old and weak and this is what you wanted.

    221

    I'm old enough, and I'm going to protect you from bad guys.

    222

    I'm too old to need vitamins.

    223

    I've always been a dirty old man.

    224

    I've been checking old cases too, real old ones, to see if I can get a handle on when our friend Grasso started in business.

    225

    I've set up the same old power sources as New Hampshire and I managed to gather up about a third of the same plants.

    226

    If he, Cynthia, and Fred were tasked with simply finding the identity of the old bones, the chore would be difficult at best and limited to Fred and his cronies researching old records.

    227

    If it was so valuable, why didn't old man Dawkins develop it?

    228

    If the old man was going to sulk, Dean thought, might as well get it out in the open and allow him to vent a little steam.

    229

    If they are that old, they're certainly worth saving.

    230

    If you're begging for the old man, don't bother.

    231

    In addition to the four Dawkins, there was Pumpkin Green, the grocery cart vagabond, and old Brandon Westlake, camera buff supreme.

    232

    In all, it barely resembled the old house.

    233

    In another case, a missing twelve year old boy turned out to be a runaway.

    234

    In my younger days I slept on the ground half the summer, but old age makes you stiff.

    235

    In Richmond, Virginia, one Saturday morning, an old man went into the market to buy something.

    236

    In the course of a few months, the old understanding between Immortals and demons – that humans were off-limits – crashed to the ground.

    237

    In the old days there was a hand pump in the kitchen and no hot water you didn't boil yourself.

    238

    In the old statehouse, the wise men of Connecticut were sitting.

    239

    It brought a further smile to the old man's face.

    240

    It did that sometimes near the old house.

    241

    It gets old and I think I've done damn well in this sick world of yours.

    242

    It is an old dream.

    243

    It makes me feel old.

    244

    It remained a sore point with the old man.

    245

    It replaced an old wooden one that burned.

    246

    It shall be on your family's behalf that I'll start my apprenticeship as old maid.

    247

    It took place in Cleveland where seven year old Eric Campbell was abducted from his Karate class.

    248

    It was a long conversation with the old gentleman.

    249

    It was a Sports Illustrated swim suit issue so old they were wearing one piece suits.

    250

    It was always young girls so I started looking at old unsolved cases; missing children as well as murders.

    251

    It was an hour later before they saw their first vehicle, an old Scout, battered and muddy, coming out of a side trail below them.

    252

    It was an understanding as old as the Dark One, who had stopped his demons once before when they launched attacks on humans.

    253

    It was Blackie Rowland's old workings, back during the war, Roger answered.

    254

    It was old, silver, and covered with Celtic knots.

    255

    It wasn't like in the old house, where she would have slept cold, got up to a colder house and had to start a fire in an old stove, then wait an hour until she could no longer see her breath.

    256

    It will know everyone who is supposed to be in the house and alert you when someone else is in the house (replacing the family dog of old in whom we never fully placed our trust).

    257

    It'll get old for you one day.

    258

    It's about time he did something with this old house.

    259

    It's an heirloom of sorts; a big old house - too much for me to take care of and work the ranch as well.

    260

    It's kinda cool, except that Toby isn't old enough to research everything yet.

    261

    It's old, but still in good condition.

    262

    It's old, maybe as old as him.

    263

    It's the old guy—Fred O'Connor.

    264

    It's the oldest bond there is, old enough to keep the mating bond from shifting when she wins her deal.

    265

    It's the same old wolf that has been skulking around here all winter.

    266

    It's tough on these old cases, especially if it's considered solved.

    267

    Jake led him into the Gregorian mansion, whose stone walls resembled an old school fortress.

    268

    Just then Dorothy, who had risen early and heard the voices of the animals, ran out to greet her old friends.

    269

    Just when I start to like you … you know, it's amazing even a man who's thousands of years old can act like a twelve-year-old.

    270

    Kind of a drag, but he meant well and his old lady's cooking was something.

    271

    Kiss a bunch of old ladies for me, Weller said as he hung up.

    272

    Kris gave me one of Andre.s old jobs.

    273

    Let the old guy and his lady friends paint up some signs.

    274

    Life is too short to spend it with repetition of old dreams that never happened.

    275

    Look, Fred, if you're worried about some old beef, forget it.

    276

    Ma thought mammograms were for old ladies or women with big boobs.

    277

    Ma won't even talk about it but I read some old newspapers.

    278

    May was less than a week old and the temperature was still volatile.

    279

    Maybe Nick and Angela would like to go with her to visit the old place in the mountains after she graduated.

    280

    Maybe you could hire on as a nanny at Old Man Taylor's ranch.

    281

    Me and Bertha here might be too old to drive all the way from Kansas, but we're still at home on these Jeep roads.

    282

    Miss Worthington spent the day waiting on Claire and showing her and her sister the old newspapers on microfilm at the library.

    283

    Most of the old men answered that they did not know of any such person.

    284

    Most women were putty in the old man's hands, but Claire Quincy had pushed all the wrong buttons and short-circuited his good nature.

    285

    Mostly meant the old man was in jail again, or they was looking to find him and put him there.

    286

    Mother and teacher and Mrs. Hopkins and Mr. Anagnos and Mr. Rodocanachi and many other friends went to Plymouth to see many old things.

    287

    Moved into his father's old house.

    288

    Mr. Webster rode in front, and Daniel, on the old gray nag, followed behind.

    289

    Mrs. Lincoln formed a pillow behind the old man's head.

    290

    My father lived to be ninety years old, and he never went on no fat diet.

    291

    My mother left when I was nine days old.

    292

    My old man beat me like a tom-tom at an Indian dance and he didn't need that much of an excuse.

    293

    My parents used to listen to those old songs.

    294

    Naw. He said Julie never talks about that old stuff and my guess is he doesn't want to open a can that might be messy.

    295

    Nearing the old house, she spotted an unfamiliar truck parked beside the road.

    296

    No warrior wants to die of old age, he said.

    297

    No. I'm, um, apparently unaffected by the…talents of other…guild guys, unless they're, like, really old.

    298

    Nope. It'll seem like old times.

    299

    Now I'm just an older dirty old man.

    300

    Now that you're past forty and bordering on geezerdom, you're beginning to sound like a dirty old man.

    301

    Now, six months later, in spite of the windshield pockmarked from the gravel roads of Ouray County, it felt like an old friend.

    302

    Nowadays, you'd be scared someone would kidnap a child but in the old days, no one ever thought of that stuff.

    303

    Of course, we still had Old Charlie, but he wasn't much account.

    304

    Off to one side was an old fire ring but no buildings or people.

    305

    Old Ed was a piece of work, wasn't he?

    306

    Old Paul Dawkins had a California address when he bought the land.

    307

    Old Rostov could not tell his wife of what had passed without tears, and at once consented to Petya's request and went himself to enter his name.

    308

    Old story-tellers say that he alighted on the back of a large fish, called a dolphin, which had been charmed by his music and was swimming near the ship.

    309

    On a mission to ensure there was a clean slate between his mate and Darkyn, Gabriel waited in the middle of Deidre's old apartment for the Dark One to arrive.

    310

    On Saturday Carmen left Alex with Jonathan and Destiny, heading for the old house.

    311

    On the day appointed, forty gray- bearded, honest old men stood before the caliph.

    312

    One of the old men nearest to him looked round, but his attention was immediately diverted by an exclamation at the other side of the table.

    313

    Our clerk-driver wheeled his old wreck like a big apple cabbie.

    314

    Part of me was hesitant to answer but something in the old man's voice gave me confidence he possessed no untoward ambitions.

    315

    Patsy Boyd apparently lifted a set of keys from a worker in the lodgings where she and Martha were temporarily quartered and made her escape in a twenty-year old Buick.

    316

    Perhaps I can get the smell out of that old dress.

    317

    Perhaps the body is much younger—only ten or twenty or thirty years old.

    318

    Plus, Dean thought, it would give the old man a good excuse and ample time for some world-class snooping.

    319

    Poor old Nancy is growing old and very feeble.

    320

    Pretty old, I have to be going now.

    321

    Princess Mary noticed to her surprise that during this illness the old prince not only excluded her from his room, but did not admit Mademoiselle Bourienne either.

    322

    Rainy, a brooding Guardian with striking green eyes and a shock of dark hair, was his youngest station chief at a youthful two thousand years old.

    323

    Same old, same old, if you ask me.

    324

    Seconds literally ticked away on the old grandfather clock in the next room.

    325

    Setting foot in Deidre's old apartment again was surreal.

    326

    She added, Most old pictures and records went up in smoke when the old building burned.

    327

    She didn't like putting her mother's old China in the dishwasher.

    328

    She didn't recognize the two men before her, but they were dressed much like the two death dealers that tried to turn her over to Harmony in her old apartment.

    329

    She had no old wounds she was reopening.

    330

    She is naked except for an old tee shirt of mine which, out of my benevolence I allowed her to wear.

    331

    She maintained her files on an old computer used exclusively for word processing.

    332

    She retrieved it and hugged it, not at all certain what the new Toby would and wouldn.t want that the old Toby had loved.

    333

    She settled into the old rocker and snapped on the lamp.

    334

    She stared at the old house.

    335

    She thought the man before her old because of his silver until her vision cleared and she saw his face.

    336

    She told him the news and all the sunshine left the old man's smile.

    337

    She tugged the curl from his hand and turned to the old piano as a diversion tactic.

    338

    She tugged the heavy door open by its old iron handle and gazed into a large square of grass, a courtyard, around which many similar rooms with heavy doors were arranged.

    339

    She was becoming a bitter old maid.

    340

    She's Julie's nine year old daughter.

    341

    She's only four months old, for God's sake!

    342

    She's weak and needs time and rest, but she has her old zest.

    343

    Shut up; I told you not to interrupt... anyway, the damn thing went too fast for the old folks... over two miles an hour, I guess.

    344

    Sister Edna, assuming the bones were old and broken props—albeit realistic ones—couldn't discard them fast enough.

    345

    Six-month old Dandy nickered to his mother, but Casper was busy talking to Princess and Dawn.

    346

    So did her sister who was visiting, and the old guy who owns the gift store on the block with the Post Office.

    347

    So, when he was eighteen years old, he ran away from his pleasant home and went to sea.

    348

    Some might be that old, but to remember back then, they'd be more'n ninety.

    349

    Someone told Caleb about this old mine and this thing they swore was in it.

    350

    Sort of like old times, ain't it?

    351

    Staring out the bay window at the old house, she abandoned her coffee cup on the window sill.

    352

    That must make you about five years old.

    353

    That's the old lady who claims she's the psychic tipster but has seen God and now quit.

    354

    That's what they do; chase old unresolved cases.

    355

    That's when I knew what everyone says about old mines being dangerous is true.

    356

    The ancient cannon, which look seaward, wear a very menacing expression; but I doubt if there is any unkindness in their rusty old hearts.

    357

    The appliances were modern but the cabinets were old and solid.

    358

    The article was penned by our old Boston nemesis, Ethel Reagan.

    359

    The bedrooms were on the second floor, the master larger than her old apartment.

    360

    The bones are probably forty years old.

    361

    The bones weren't that old.

    362

    The boots were a little tight and his legs weren't exactly locked together, but the old exhilaration of gliding over the snow returned immediately.

    363

    The break-in was only hours old and we knew the exact location from Howie's first visit.

    364

    The Buen, as everyone referred to it, was located in a hundred year old structure previously known as the Scott-Humphries Building, which had remained vacant for over twenty-five years.

    365

    The building sat amid a cluster of cottonwoods that had grown there for an old man's lifetime, while a weather-beaten barn stood off to the side, showing its tired age.

    366

    The car had been shut up long enough that it smelled of old upholstery.

    367

    The car was six years old now, but it was in good shape and still had low mileage.

    368

    The case was only hours old when Betsy spotted it giving us hope for the boy's recovery and the perpetrator's arrest.

    369

    The check was written with an old fashioned fountain pen.

    370

    The child, an eight year old girl named Marcia Stonehurst, was still in bed at one o'clock.

    371

    The clothing was obviously quite old and now that it was out of its container, reeked of dampness and dirt.

    372

    The cover pictured a character looking like Carnac the Magnificent from the old Johnny Carson TV show.

    373

    The eight year old son of a popular rapper named Buzz-Cousin was abducted for a million dollar ransom.

    374

    The first mechanism is the creation of things, an old and familiar approach.

    375

    The Fred O'Connor Cyber Cafe was unplugged from electronic connection to the world at large, as the old gentleman was taking his sweet time moving his belongings downstairs.

    376

    The house is empty except for old Mrs. Cummings, who snores away her darkness.

    377

    The human race is interested in these experiments, though a few old women who are incapacitated for them, or who own their thirds in mills, may be alarmed.

    378

    The mine sits on a few hundred acres old man Dawkins owned.

    379

    The mixed news produced a sense of relief that Martha was, according to Fred, temporarily safe, but she seethed at what she saw as Fitzgerald's vindictiveness at attacking them through the old man.

    380

    The old farm house had been wrapped in insulation and sided.

    381

    The old gals could certainly put away the suds.

    382

    The old geezer is probably just pulling our legs.

    383

    The old horse panted a little, and had to stop often to get his breath.

    384

    The old house groaned with each gust of wind, but it felt like a happy house.

    385

    The old house with its dark blank windows was eerie.

    386

    The old lady babbled something to her husband about Howie, and naturally, Howie doesn't know what guy is talking about.

    387

    The old man and child were playing checkers in the comfortable den when a housekeeper called them to dinner.

    388

    The old man excused himself and followed Dean to the kitchen.

    389

    The old man looked concerned.

    390

    The old man looked defeated, with all his natural feistiness absent, left outside in the sunshine.

    391

    The old man looked indignant.

    392

    The old man looks at Howie like puss on a pudding and Howie doesn't know why; it's really tense.

    393

    The old man picked at his red suspenders.

    394

    The old man read them eagerly.

    395

    The old man said nothing but shook his hand.

    396

    The old man sat crumpled in the grotto where Martha's bones had rested.

    397

    The old man sighed, looking every bit his age.

    398

    The old man smiled as he poured another drink.

    399

    The old man smiled as he stomped on the brake.

    400

    The old man was as nattily attired in his customary fashion, but his eyes betrayed his lack of sleep.

    401

    The old man was careful of privacy and territory and would take nothing without first asking.

    402

    The old man was living as a convict, submitting as he should and doing no wrong.

    403

    The old man was still dressed in a dark suit after attending the funeral.

    404

    The old man was waiting for her on the other side of the peak.

    405

    The old man who had bought the first turkey was standing quite near.

    406

    The old man woke with a start as the woman smiled and set aside her book.

    407

    The old man, Liam, had fed her and given her a handful of euro coins before putting her on the ferry.

    408

    The old photographer was surprised as they were.

    409

    The old spinster is in a bad mood today.

    410

    The old stove had been replaced with a large fireplace.

    411

    The old woman spoke to one of the younger women.

    412

    The only other skaters were a mother and her four-year old pig-tailed professional level daughter and an old man who skated like a retired gold medalist.

    413

    The only picture Katie had of her family was an old family photo.

    414

    The people were dressed in old fashioned clothes.

    415

    The perpetrator proved to be a thirteen year old girl, scarcely known to the victim, jealous of an older boy's changing affections.

    416

    The poor old woman may have believed it herself.

    417

    The ride turned out to be a trip to the old house to see how things were coming along.

    418

    The shed at Hugson's Siding was bare save for an old wooden bench, and did not look very inviting.

    419

    The thing Martha saw had on a plaid shirt on, and these clothes are definitely old.

    420

    The town of Ouray, while only a century and a quarter old, was rich in history and Fred O'Connor, together with a cadre of widows with similar interests, spent many hours reading Ouray's old newspapers and written accounts.

    421

    The trio sat around the office desk, looking over one another's shoulders at the neat handwriting in the old notebook.

    422

    The two remained that way, blanketed in the comforting stillness of the old house and one another's arms.

    423

    The wind blew the entire night, creaking and groaning about the old building in a mournful dirge.

    424

    The woman remembered the call because it took some work for her to dig up the old information.

    425

    The woman rummaged through the colorful attire in a frenzy until she retrieved and turned off a large old fashioned alarm clock.

    426

    Then added, in a mocking voice, 'We were intimate, and all our old love came flowing back!'

    427

    Then he added, Maybe I can buy my old costume.

    428

    Then she asked, Why do you say the bones are forty years old?

    429

    Then there was only silence and the night sounds of the old building as Cynthia lay awake next to this man she loved.

    430

    There can't be many that old.

    431

    There was an old treadle sewing machine with carved drawers and even a grandfathers' clock, stating the permanent time of three p.m.

    432

    There was only one way to keep from getting old, and life in an old withered body still sounded better than the alternative.

    433

    There, amid a cluster of floats, Boy Scouts and ballerinas, four of Fred's lady friends were in the final stages of hanging bunting about a beautiful old touring car whose vintage or name Dean couldn't identify.

    434

    They ask friends just old enough to buy it for them.

    435

    They found some old bones.

    436

    They had moved the antique furniture out of her old downstairs room and put it upstairs months before he was born.

    437

    They were both now forty years old.

    438

    They were like old friends who came to visit after a long absence.

    439

    They would all get together and wash her old car, winding up in a gleeful water fight.

    440

    They'd make it a game night or sit around getting wasted on twenty-year old scotch recounting countless, crazy times they had through the years.

    441

    They've got fifty agents going all over the state of Idaho looking for an old lady.

    442

    This case was a twelve year old girl, shot in cold blood as she sat alone at the poolside of her California home.

    443

    This compass is only a few thousand years old.

    444

    This one had that old money, all-American boy swagger that begged for something cute.

    445

    To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

    446

    To ask Brennan directly might lead to us so I made up a story we were checking old cases to see if someone released from prison might have returned to this type of crime.

    447

    To this letter the old prince had replied affectionately, and from that time had kept the Frenchwoman at a distance.

    448

    Today's program was scheduled for a different track—meeting with the old timers, the curmudgeons, over their morning coffee meeting at Diversions Coffee House.

    449

    Two ladies are flying all the way from Boston to buy some old underwear, a yellow dress and a bunch of junk?

    450

    Until I was ten years old, my family lived in rural east Texas.

    451

    Watch, and as soon as the soldiers are ready to start, hang a lantern in the tower of the old North Church.

    452

    We did some digging in old records at the museum as well.

    453

    We don't get much chance to turn the old clock back.

    454

    We have a member of the healing guild on staff, but her skill wasn't old enough for you.

    455

    We old folks have some business to discuss.

    456

    We took seats on an old leather sofa and side chair while our hostess sat behind the desk that dominated the room.

    457

    We used to go there to bail out the old man.

    458

    We were rolling in euphoria when an old friend from my Amherst, Massachusetts childhood telephoned with an invitation to visit her family cabin in New Hampshire.

    459

    We'd better tell the old man he needs to get hopping.

    460

    We'll kick it up old school.

    461

    We're probably the only roommates in Tulsa with such old fashioned rules.

    462

    We've been stalking guys like him with some success for years, the old fashioned way.

    463

    Well judging from your art collection and furnishings at Fairhaven I would guess you're about a hundred and fifty years old.

    464

    Westlake plugged forward, his nose nearly at the windshield, which was spider-webbed with nicks and cracks, as the old car crawled higher.

    465

    Westlake twisted around the seat once more and after a struggle pulled out an old step pump.

    466

    What am I, five years old?

    467

    What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

    468

    What remained in the darkened room was a beaten old man.

    469

    What's the point of living to a ripe old age if you can't enjoy yourself?

    470

    Whatever the old man said, it elevated Cynthia's mood a few notches on the normalcy meter.

    471

    When Aesop was about twenty years old his master lost a great deal of money and was obliged to sell his slaves.

    472

    When Dean didn't introduce himself, Faust gave Jennifer what he meant as an "old boy" pat on her arm and added, "Checking out the property one last time?"

    473

    When Fred gets out of jail, we'll have to send him back to his old newspapers—begin all over again.

    474

    When I called Billy to tell him I was coming out this summer, he mentioned he'd found some old bones in a mine but he was afraid of getting in trouble for breaking in.

    475

    When Otanes was twelve years old, his parents wished to send him to a distant city to study in a famous school that was there.

    476

    When Robert Fulton became a man, he did not forget his experiment with the old fishing boat.

    477

    When Saturday's daylight arrived to David Dean's exhausted eyes, the time had slipped past his usual rising hour and voices and footsteps rattled the old timbers of Bird Song.

    478

    When the old bell-wether at the head rattles his bell, the mountains do indeed skip like rams and the little hills like lambs.

    479

    When the old man tried to engage him in further conversation—this time about Pumpkin Green and the general irresponsibility of today's youth—he excused himself on an important errand and left Westlake standing in the hall.

    480

    When they reached Mr. Johnson's house, the old man politely handed him the turkey and turned to go.

    481

    When you read the old newspapers and see the ads, you realize how self-contained Ouray was back then.

    482

    While the old gent's hasty departure was out of character, his rapid exit caused the Deans no concern.

    483

    Who could do something desperate, like covering up an old murder?

    484

    Why did Shipton go back to old Virginia?

    485

    With Fred's approval, he dashed up to the old man's room to fire up his computer and do so.

    486

    With the old man's help, she caught the last ferry across the channel just before sunset.

    487

    Yeah, speaking of that, are you ever going to tell me how old you are?

    488

    Yeah. The old guy who's always taking pictures.

    489

    Yes. It didn't hurt he's old enough that he's had time to build his power as well.

    490

    You and Fritz are both old enough to be her father.

    491

    You are looking well, Zamon, for being a million years old.

    492

    You can make fun of that stuff, but a lot of wild things happened around this old mining town a hundred years ago.

    493

    You can stay in your old room.

    494

    You know how old we are.

    495

    You know, Cade, there are others who feel the same way you do about the old ways.

    496

    You said so yourself when you checked the old records.

    497

    You shouldn't be cooped up with a sour old man every evening.

    498

    You won't know if the source is male or female, old or young, from the east or west or how long the tips will keep coming.

    499

    You wouldn't need a specific date or time and you could probably find your old home, given enough tries.

    500

    You'd think the old guys had found gold.