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So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
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Domestically, the prime minister maintains the dubious line that he is the only man who can keep the still-fragile peace.
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It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America, as it was only then 23 years old.
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To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
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He plays an aging punk rocker and I play the drummer from his old band.
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Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
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His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
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Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
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Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.
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In this position, the line of cavalry formed the chord of the arc described by the river, and occupied by us.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various

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old-line

adjective

US and Canadian conservative; old-fashioned

well-established; traditional

Derived forms of old-line

old-liner, noun

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