'Do you think of soon returning to the old country?' says I.
'Think of soon returning to the old country, sir!' repeats the Doctor.
American Notes for General Circulation
Micawber, 'is, that in some branches of our family we may live again in
the old country. Do not frown, Micawber!
David Copperfield
Whatever the attitude of America as a nation may be to these matters, the American people don't want to see
the old country in trouble.
The Vanished Messenger
My fancy played with the various forms of fraud and violence, and I agreed with him sympathetically when he remarked that the authorities in
the old country were so damned technical.
Moon and Sixpence
I picked up the gun he had dropped; a queer piece from
the old country, short and heavy, with a stag's head on the cock.
My Antonia
* If the curious traveller will turn south from Glen Ellen, he will find himself on a boulevard that is identical with
the old country road seven centuries ago.
The Iron Heel
The young man found, on landing in
the old country, a welcome and a surrounding in full harmony with all his dreams throughout his wanderings and solitude, and the promise of a fresh and adventurous life.
Lair of the White Worm
Red John and Axel did not send their pay-days home to
the old country. Instead, and along with the rest, they were scattered on board sailing ships bound for the four quarters of the globe, where they had been placed by the boarding-house masters, and where they were working out advance money which they had neither seen nor spent.
John Barleycorn
Summary: Tsitsipas says he is proud to be a writing a new chapter in
the old country's history
I'm proud to be a symbol for Greece, says Tsitsipas
Reconstructing
the Old Country: American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades.
Reconstructing the Old Country: American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades
Sloot Peril, a modest accountant who is "only as superstitious as required by law," is an unlikely hero in the humorous fantasy Peril in
the Old Country. With a lyrical flair that evokes P.
Peril in the Old Country
The Old Country Buffet in Arlington Heights closed in June 2016 after surviving an initial spate of nationwide closures months earlier as part of the parent company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and restructuring.
Golden Corral coming to Arlington Heights
Synopsis: According to the good folk of
the Old Country, you have got to have rules because they are all that's holding the dismal tide at bay.
Peril in the Old Country
He has lived all his life very carefully in Little Town, which borders
the Old Country; he follows the rules and keeps safe.
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