world-old

We looked at him clearly, with world-old eyes, and saw simply a human thing, weak and pitiable and cruel, even as we are and were.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

The world-old and fearful things,—war and wealth, murder and luxury?

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

Always Africa is giving us something new or some metempsychosis of a world-old thing.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

Whether known as Communism or Socialism or what not, these efforts are neither new nor strange nor terrible, but world-old and seeking an absolutely justifiable human ideal—the only ideal that can be sought: the direction of individual action in industry so as to secure the greatest good of all.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

"A friend is a friend, but a brother is a rival," says the East, out of world-old experience, and in some ways Russia is more eastern than the East itself.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

Bursdon and Welsford were then, as now, a rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree, or anything save few and far between a world-old furze-bank which marked the common rights of some distant cattle farm, and crossed then, not as now, by a decent road, but by a rough confused track-way, the remnant of an old

Westward Ho! 2007

That world-old problem never fails to interest the new and the inexperienced.

The Titan 2004

From time to time a mountain stream brawled from under a world-old bridge, and then spread a quiet tide for the women to kneel beside and wash the clothes which they spread to dry on every bush and grassy slope of the banks.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

None of the trees looked so old, so world-old, as certain trees in the careless olive groves of Italy.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

Before this world-old proposition we stand, serious, interested, confused; endeavouring to evolve the true theory of morals — the true answer to what is right.

Sister Carrie 2004