There was, in the days of which I write, an old-fashioned custom on the English road, which I suspect is now obsolete, or practised only by the vulgar.

"Koizumi's whole plan is to end the power of vested interests and old-fashioned customs, including the privileged circle of journalists," Mr. Toshikawa said.

It was obviously a family Bible in which the old-fashioned custom had been continued of entering each new birth.

He tends toward the old-fashioned custom of anticipating with the left hand right hand melody lines.

"It's just a foolish and dangerous old-fashioned custom," said Dr. Janet Freedman, a former president of the Committee of Interns and Residents, the union for medical trainees.

She loved the outdoors- the park, the ocean, the mountains- with a passion he had learned to appreciate and which Jake came by naturally; and she loved old-fashioned customs.

The Watchman must keep watch, for this is one of the old-fashioned customs we observe.

The villagers of Raveloe live in isolation only because of their old-fashioned customs--they really aren't that far from the rest of civilization.

No quarreling with Pop, for instance, about the old-fashioned custom of separating women from men in the synagogue.

As such, she reformed the traditions of Danish Court life, abolished many old-fashioned customs at Court and created a more relaxed atmosphere at official receptions.