He has always been their best defence against that age-old dread they all have of the dark.

Its truth was a blazing affront in the face of age-old autocracy.

But for that, he confesses he might have gone the long way round; he was no more prone to childish terrors than any other man, but to his mind there was something sinister in the portentous immobility of the place; in its silence, its want of excuse for being, a sense of age-old evil like an inarticulate menace.

It is a remedy in which, if it is properly adopted, victory is certain, and it is the age-old remedy of self-sacrifice.

One line in the Book of Chronicles, when I read it, flies up at me out of the printed page as though it were alive, conveying newly the age-old agony of a misplaced man.

Along these age-old routes Meccan merchandise still travelled its devious way, at the mercy of sun and desert storms and the unheeding fierceness of that cataclysmic country, a prey to any marauding tribes, and dependent for its existence upon the strength of its escort.

"You seem to have mastered a number of the simple truths of age-old agricultural experience.

She was beautiful, and yet with her beauty there was a primitiveness, a gentle savagery, and an age-old story written in the fine lines of her face which made him uneasy with the thought of a thing that was almost tragedy.

The man came steadily on with his right hand stretched out palm up in the age-old token of amity, and as he approached he kept talking.

" CHAPTER XXXI SYLVIA MEETS WITH PITY Under the scarlet glory of frost-touched maples, beside the river strolled Sylvia, conscious of looking very well and being admired; but contrary to the age-old belief about her sex and age, the sensation of looking very well and being admired by no means filled the entire field of her consciousness.

Sire after sire of mine has died in Barbul-el-Sharnak or in Thek, but has left our dynasty laughing sheer in the face of Time from over these age-old walls.

He had been swept away in the current of madness that sweeps the forest at the fall of darkness: the age-old intoxication of the wilderness night.

High and low, every woods creature knows this dread, this age-old apprehension of the deepening snow.

And the gods were satisfied, and their wrath abated, and their thunder rolled away and the great black clouds dissolved, and the ancient one of the gods went back to his age-old sleep, and morning came, and the birds and the light shone on the mountain, and the peak stood clear to see, the serene home of the gods.

The age-old tradition of industrialists supporting the government came into play here.

"Mindful of the age-old cry, 'What about the ball?'

"It's the age-old story," he went on, again sweeping the lock of hair from before his flashing glance.

If literature is of a magnificent depth and intricate subtlety in a measure proportionate to its reflection of the vast complexity of a nation that has existed as such for centuries, conceivably it will be facile and clever in a measure proportionate to its reflection of the spirit of the commonwealth which in a few hundred years has acquired a place with age-old empires.

" Something stirred in Betty Medillthat age-old interest of the provincial girl in the visiting man.

" He made an inarticulate exclamation, expressive of great joy, and followed it with the age-old demand: "Tell me when you became willing to come to mine.

Here is the age-old difficulty.

And the position is complicated by inheritance of the age-old conviction that a woman is supremely woman when she can bend a man by precisely these means.

In the streets of her great cities where two civilizations clash; in sleepy, old-world towns where men and women, born under the shade of temple towers and decaying palaces, are awakening to think new thoughts; in isolated villages where life still harks back to pre-historic daysagainst all these backgrounds you may find the Christian educated woman of New India measuring her untried strength against the powers of age-old tradition.

Thinking in terms of this age-old experience, with six or more thousand years of social history as a background, it is possible to give a fairly exact meaning to the word "civilization" as it has been lived and is being lived by the present-day West.

It is, by right of its own being, One with all lovely, youthful things; And they, its age-old kindred, Welcome it Saying, "Come, you too are one of us!" . . . . . . .