As I was saying, I've known all about the old records, including the old Norberg deed.

So had Miss Shawnee Rakestraw, full of criticisms about the changes here, giving thanks that her dear old father had gone to his Heavenly Rest last year, saying how much she enjoyed her boarding house in town in inclement weather, was looking forward to Quinzaine Spa this summer.

Bäumer describes Leer's ability to attract women by saying " Leer is an old hand at the game ".

Snorri Sturluson quoted this old poem in Skáldskaparmál, saying that because of this legend Heimdall is called " Seeker of Freyja's Necklace " ( Skáldskaparmál, section 8 ) and Loki is called " Thief of Brísingamen " ( Skáldskaparmál, section 16 ).

There the admiral wrote letters describing the events of the previous months: " It is an old saying, ' the Devil's children have the Devil's luck.

Wills is also quoted as saying, " You can change the name of an old song, rearrange it and make it a swing.

He records that, in prayer one night after leaving two acquaintances at a drinking session, he heard an inner voice saying, " Thou seest how young people go together into vanity, and old people into the earth ; thou must forsake all, young and old, keep out of all, and be as a stranger unto all.

Home runs are among the most popular aspects of baseball and, as a result, prolific home run hitters are usually the most popular among fans and consequently the highest paid by teams — hence the old saying, variously attributed to slugger Ralph Kiner, or to a teammate talking about Kiner, " Home run hitters drive Cadillacs, and singles hitters drive Fords.

Usually, there is no trouble in saying that a little girl in 1920, for example, is the same as an old woman in 1998, even though they share a relatively small number of molecules in common.

While the crowd was rioting in the streets, Justinian considered fleeing the capital, but he remained in the city on the stirring words of Theodora ( according to Procopius, she said " For an Emperor to become a fugitive is not a thing to be endured ... I hold with the old saying that the purple makes an excellent shroud ".

Because of his old age, he only gave very short sermons saying, " My children love one another.

In an interview with The Times, Curbishley quipped, " I emailed back saying Keith now resides in Golders Green crematorium, having lived up to the Who's anthemic line ' I hope I die before I get old '... If they have a round table, some glasses and candles, we might contact him.

Nash's poetry was often a playful twist of an old saying or poem.

In the Martyrdom, Polycarp is recorded as saying on the day of his death, " Eighty and six years I have served him ," which could indicate that he was then eighty-six years old or that he may have lived eighty-six years after his conversion.

In accepting the award, Gordon thanked the Academy by saying, " I can't tell you how encouraging a thing like this is ... And thank all of you who voted for me, and to everyone who didn't: please, excuse me ", which drew laughs because at the time she had been in theater for fifty years and was seventy-two years old.

However, she denied that she was fifteen years old when it began, saying that they met when she was sixteen and the affair only became sexual " several years later ".

Adding to his mystique was the circulation among Iranians in the 1970s of an old Shia saying attributed to the Imam Musa al-Kadhem.

King is a fan of John D. MacDonald, and dedicated the novella " Sun Dog " to MacDonald, saying " I miss you, old friend.

" Harry Harrison summarised the period by saying " old barriers were coming down, pulp taboos were being forgotten, new themes and new manners of writing were being explored ".

An old saying goes, " The first time you think of reducing sail you should ," and correspondingly, " When you think you are ready to take out a reef, have a cup of tea first.

The home run is still considered to be the longest home run ever hit in the old Comiskey Park, some saying that it went 600 feet ( 183 meters ).

In April Moon, then 88 years old, appointed his youngest son, Hyung Jin Moon, to be the leader of the church and movement, saying, " I hope everyone helps him so that he may fulfil his duty as the successor of the True Parents.

He initially refused the honour, saying he was too old, but accepted when Prime Minister Robert Peel assured him " you shall have nothing required of you " ( he became the only laureate to write no official poetry ).

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.

`` I got Margaret Rider in one of them old box cars down there by the quarry ''.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

One is that they were established, or gained eminence, under pressure provided by these same immigrants, from whom the old families wished to segregate their children.

Everything in the way of representation has already been done by the old masters ''.

In The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, it may be noted, Swift himself contemptuously dismissed Steele's reference to his friend at court: `` I suppose by the Style of old Friend, and the like, it must be some Body there of his own Level ; ;

A cow owned by an old woman trespassed on Gorton's land.

Most Romans, even some postmen, know it by the old name.

Washington apparently decided to use an old formula, by injecting large military appropriations to speed the slow revival of the U.S. economy after a prolonged slump ''.

A quarter of a century has gone by since this bevy of walking dreams sashayed up and down the staircases of the old New Amsterdam Theater, N.Y..

Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

Sir -- An old man is kicked to death by muggers.

He was obsessed by disease and poverty, by the melancholy of old age and the tyranny of lust.

The Deacon Board, headed by a black man named Carlson, had practically taken over as the pastor grew old, and had its way with the support of the Amen corner.

Though this sculpture must take place thirty-three years after her moment of decision, he could not conceive of her as a woman in her mid-fifties, old, wrinkled, broken in body and face by labor or worry.

Nothing like the old days in the army, but I get by.

I wrote her that I'd met up with Eileen and that old bonds had proved too strong and asked her to send my clothes down by express.

He regaled Claire with an account of the mock mass performed by the cassocked bloods, which he had had at firsthand from old Bud Dodington, one of the leaders of the so-called `` Order ''.

Coaching had declined considerably by 1905, but the sign was still there, near the old Wells Fargo building in San Francisco, creaking in the fog as it had for thirty years.

He was closely followed by the Ohio and Indiana troops -- thus the old bridge has another distinction ; ;

They were further stripped of old wive's tales by seeing the slender, lovely Russian girls performing feats requiring tremendous strength and with not one bulging muscle.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

The injured German veteran was a former miner, twenty-four years old, who had been wounded by shrapnel in the back of the head.