back-number

What you quote, however, about your own frame of mind is obviously a back-number….

The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006

What you quote, however, about your own frame of mind is obviously a back-number….

The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006

So I went further, pointing out that the Yenbo-Medina sector also became a back-number; and advised the transfer to Akaba of the stores, money, and officers now devoted to Ali and Abdulla.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Two or three years since, to quote him was, in the opinion of a _Standard_ reviewer, to write yourself down a back-number, as they say.

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

Revolutions in the various sciences have been going on so rapidly, they fancy that a theory that was formulated forty years ago must be a back-number, and so they hasten to declare their allegiance to the last new cloud of sophistry, purporting to be a theory of value, that has been evolved by the feeble minds of the anarchists of Italy or the capitalist economists of Austria.

Socialism: Positive and Negative Robert Rives La Monte

He smiled wanly and asked for his mail, which consisted only of a pile of back-number copies of a newspaper.

Land of the Burnt Thigh Edith Eudora Kohl

For the man who lay in front of me, stone dead in water-soaked clothes that were frozen to his stark body, was Thompson, our old superintendent, who only six weeks ago had left the La Chance mine; whose letter to Dudley, with its careful, back-number copperplate address, lay in my pocket now.

The La Chance Mine Mystery Susan Morrow Jones

After the last game you may be carried off on the shoulders of enthusiastic admirers and dined and wined by hosts of friends; but across the field there is a grim faced coach who may already be scheming out a play for next year which will snatch you back from the "Hall of Fame" and make your friends describe you sadly as a "back-number."

Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball William Hanford Edwards

It was written in Thompson's careful, back-number copperplate, perhaps not so careful as usual, but his unmistakably.

The La Chance Mine Mystery Susan Morrow Jones

There were three for Marcia, and one -- in old Thompson's back-number copperplate -- for Dudley.

The La Chance Mine Mystery Susan Morrow Jones