old-established

“Get Ellen and Louis to entice him to Bexley; take him up to Dartford . . . and push him into that most useful and old-established institution—the Dartford Mental Home, where he could spend his time writing lavatory roll after lavatory roll of concentrated libel—for writing libel seems to be his pet hobby nowadays.”

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

After the family had moved west across London to settle in Putney, Judt was educated at Emanuel school, an old-established independent school in Battersea.

Tony Judt obituary 2010

What makes the present case so alarming is that concessions are being made to Holocaust-deniers and anti-Semites, and that this is not a departure from "original intent" Catholicism but rather part of a return to traditional and old-established preachments.

The Pope’s Denial Problem 2009

The old-established carrier of the place brought his fishing-rod and travelling-trunk, with a letter to Meg, dated a week previously, desiring her to prepare to receive an old acquaintance.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

All old-established national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed.

Archive 2008-10-01 2008

I shall rely upon the credit of your old-established house. —

Eve and David 2007

Flicoteaux III. respected the old exterior, maintaining the dingy hue and general air of a respectable, old-established house, showing thereby the depth of their contempt for the charlatanism of the shop-front, the kind of advertisement which feasts the eyes at the expense of the stomach, to which your modern restaurant almost always has recourse.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

All old-established national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed.

CONTENTS 2007

Many years ago I started work in the publications department of an old-established City institution.

Dangers of Compliance 2007

I shall rely upon the credit of your old-established house. —

Eve and David 2007