OLD in Classic Quotes

1  My old black-patent bandolier.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III

2  We always throw away old clothes.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III

3  Along with them all the old man's mental peculiarities.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III

4  'But old clothes are beastly,' continued the untiring whisper.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III

5  All the physiological stigmata of old age have been abolished.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III

6  The old man made the sign of the cross over him and turned away.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

7  'He's old, that's all,' Bernard answered as carelessly as he could.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

8  Then slowly, with bent back, the old man hobbled past them and was gone.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

9  The old man pointed towards the two hatchways that gave entrance to the lower world.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

10  Then the old man lifted his hand and, startlingly, terrifyingly, there was absolute silence.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

11  'Partly,' he added, 'because most of them die long before they reach this old creature's age.'

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

12  There were those strange rumours of old forbidden books hidden in a safe in the Controller's study.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III

13  The place was queer, so was the music, so were the clothes and the goitres and the skin diseases and the old people.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

14  And yet, so unique also was Bernard's oddness, that she had hesitated to take it, had actually thought of risking the Pole again with funny old Benito.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VI

15  Identical twins--but not in piddling twos and threes as in the old viviparous days, when an egg would sometimes accidentally divide; actually by dozens, by scores at a time.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

16  An almost naked Indian was very slowly climbing down the ladder from the first-floor terrace of a neighbouring house--rung after rung, with the tremulous caution of extreme old age.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

17  Then the leader gave a signal, and one after another, all the snakes were flung down in the middle of the square; an old man came up from underground and sprinkled them with corn meal, and from the other hatchway came a woman and sprinkled them with water from a black jar.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII