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That was not the way to destroy people’s outworn beliefs . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Gradually the plant engineer removed the tubing to use to patch other outworn equipment at the Hediondo. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
And as I undressed I saw my outworn clothes and realized that I'd have to shed them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
And as I undressed I saw my outworn clothes and realized that I'd have to shed them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
Regularly he revolted against outworn techniques and materials. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Could I remount the river of my years To the first fountain of our smiles and tears I would not trace again its stream of hours Between its outworn banks of withered flowers. Breakup songs owe a lot to the lovelorn lyrics of the Romantics 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z
His theatrical, packed-to-the-gills exhibition at the Frye Art Museum aims to supplant the outworn heroes and cultural assumptions of the Western canon with new heroes, histories and paradigms. Artist Tavares Strachan’s show at Frye packed with subversive drama 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z
In the book’s second part, Dowling spotlights O’Neill’s collaboration with the Provincetown Players, a Greenwich Village group that shared his desire to smash outworn theatrical conventions. A new biography of Eugene O’Neill looks beyond the playwright’s demons
Why a packed house for a fashion house best known for its outwear, and, most notably, the hiking boots the British call wellies? On the Runway Blog: A Harrowing Trip, Far From the Runways 2014-02-16T17:19:06Z
Labor-intensive, visually compelling works by the Bahamian artist seem to challenge outworn heroes and cultural assumptions of the Western canon, yet some of Strachan’s simplest pieces may be his most pleasing. Artist Tavares Strachan’s show at Frye packed with subversive drama 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z
As the outworn floor was being removed to make way for underfloor heating and wiring, a large central cruciform section was discovered to contain the church crypts. Classical Epiphany 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
That “hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn,” as science fiction author Wilson Tucker memorably put it when he coined the term in 1941. Review | ‘Dune’ is a classic space opera. Let’s talk about other great works in this genre. 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z
Forceful femininity was Alberta Ferretti’s new fashion code, as she moved from a floaty prettiness to embrace the outwear that dominated the show. Special Report: Ferr?: Clean and Clear 2010-02-26T19:01:00Z
Notably, this is the second time in recent months that Pelosi’s outwear has made fashion headlines. Nancy Pelosi's yellow motorcycle jacket likened to Elvis, Michael Jackson, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and 'Kill Bill' 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z
“Traditional retailers with traditional outwear, they are the ones who got hurt,” said Roseanne Cumella, the company’s senior vice president for merchandising. Ski Bunnies on City Slopes 2010-12-16T05:45:06Z
Has it outworn its message of teenage abstinence and massive sulks? The Twilight Saga: sad to see it go? – open thread 2012-11-15T10:41:36Z
“I had outworn my usefulness,” Watt said of his decision, adding that others “wouldn’t get off my case” about his insulting coal advisory panel comment. James Watt, sharp-tongued and pro-development Interior secretary under Reagan, dies at 85 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z
There is an emphasis on architecture in the outwear, but with a more feminine touch. Prada, Max Mara promote modesty and utility on Milan runways 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z
The label emphasized outwear with lengthened silhouettes, ranging from tailored coats to puffed-out bomber jackets, and sprinkled some artwork and logos into the mix. Rosalia performs in Louis Vuitton catwalk show at Paris Fashion Week 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z
Meanwhile, men’s pants and shorts rose 11.2 percent from a year ago, while suits, sport coats and outwear prices climbed 9.3 percent. How much is higher inflation hurting you? Here’s how to estimate 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z
So, the high temperature of 62 seemed an obvious anachronism, an outdated and outworn remnant of earlier times. For a day in the merry month of May, it was a bit breezy and chilly 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z
Perhaps expecting it might be reformed soon, Albright called it “creaky,” “archaic,” “tired,” “no longer dependable” and “America’s outworn way of electing its presidents.” ‘Grace and humor’: The vice presidents who certified their own election losses 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z
The outwear line is made of recycled plastic bottles and kicked off a company pledge for no new plastic in its supply chain by 2021. Looking for a socially conscious holiday gift? You may have to decide between principles and price. 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z
“The prevailing assumption is that culture is an outworn fiction,” wrote Hilton Kramer, a critic at the New York Times; the show was an effort “to demonstrate that art was obsolete”. Harald Szeemann and the art of exhibition-making 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z
Instead he falls back on older ones, long outworn. If You’ve Heard One Cliché, You’ve Heard Them All 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z
The nation suffers from overflowing sewage drains, crumbling bridges, rusting railroad tracks, outworn roads, and public transportation systems rivaling those of third-world nations. Scam alert: Trump's $1tn 'infrastructure plan' is a giveaway to the rich | Robert Reich 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z
Why it’s influential: For the second presidential inauguration, Obama went with an edgier and more sartorially adventurous look, picking fashion favorite Thom Browne for her outwear. See Michelle Obama's 35 Most Influential Looks of All Time 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z
In a world cut free from conventional rules, the charismatic leader uses bizarre, unprecedented symbols of power to undermine the dullards who cling to outworn expectations. The unholy power of that Farage-Trump buddy photo | Jonathan Jones 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn. Leonard Cohen always found just the right words 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z
But my fear is that we’ve already become Pagans swaddled in creeds outworn, credulous if less forlorn, as Clinton rises from the sea and old Trump blows his wreathed horn. The age of stream of consciousness — and insanity 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z
Burberry, meanwhile, presented a youthful collection of bold sequined florals, plaids and patterns topped, of course, by iterations of its iconic outwear. In London, Shoes Steal the Spotlight 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z
And that means retailers are running out of time to salvage a holiday season in which sales of apparel, particularly outwear, have been decimated. Why Warm Weather Is Killing Retailers' Holiday Season 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z
This approach works especially well for outwear and layering items, like sweaters. How to Save on Thrift Store Outfits 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z
But Mr Trump’s persistence suggests this is outworn, and so did his fans in Sarasota. The greatest show on earth 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z
And the Republican primary electorate would give a talented field the intellectual support and leeway to oppose outworn or extreme ideas within their own coalition and to produce an agenda relevant to our time. The wreckage of the summer of Trump 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z
“This is both inner and outwear. Why should you suffer?” she asks. ND store owner works to build clothing line for women 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z
But the fashion statements—eye-catching headpieces, expertly tailored outwear and serious brow power—speak for themselves. 1940s Fashion Tip: Don't Leave Home Without a Hat 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z
In apparel, outwear performed very well throughout the quarter. Guess Rises On Profits Beat While Currency Headwinds Subdue Topline Growth 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z
It’s a great opportunity to snap up winter items including sweaters, outwear and boots. Day After Christmas Sales Offer Deep Discounts In Apparel And Home Goods 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z
Its first collection, Fall/Winter ’14, launched in October with men’s outwear jackets. NINOX, Redefining All-Weather Gear 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z
"It's an expedient that has outworn its usefulness, and it's time to say goodbye." Fed declares economy strong enough for bond-buying stimulus to end 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z
They consider it in hoc to the outworn rituals and exigencies of empire, to which even the once promising British Labour movement has been suborned. How did it come to this? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z
It’s not just the stores known for outwear that are running low on warm, waterproof boots. This Winter, a Good Boot Is Hard to Find 2014-02-10T01:24:30Z
There is a pervasive attitude that laws created to help rectify racism in the century after the Civil War have outworn their welcome, creating more of a burden than a benefit. The state of civil rights in America 2013-06-27T23:14:43Z
The replacement of outworn sewers and the burial of dangerous, unsightly overhead cables is more mundane. Lahore authorities battle to restore splendour of ancient Walled City 2013-05-26T14:02:52Z
“We understand that outworn programs are inadequate to the needs of our time,” he said. In inaugural address, Obama outlines second-term economic plans 2013-01-22T00:37:03Z
We understand that outworn programs are inadequate to the needs of our time.  Obama’s second inaugural address 2013-01-21T17:06:00Z
Will the cut-scene outwear its usefulness once it’s no longer necessary to show off the possibility of better graphics in games? Agni's Philosophy Final Fantasy Real Time Tech Demo Is Very Pretty 2012-06-07T04:19:25Z
The scarlet waistcoat of the Romantic school is outworn; the brutal brilliancies and exaggerated orchestral effects of the realists are beginning to be regarded with suspicion. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z
Of the many hundreds of proverbs relating to the seasons a few are sage, some outworn, and many sheer nonsense. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z
It should be employed widely in accounting and the treatment of commercial problems, and would be except for outworn conventions. The Psychology of Arithmetic 2012-03-31T02:00:28.817Z
He had never been a man to count dollars or costs, and to a large extent he had outworn himself and the family fortunes in a vain search for health. The Mardi Gras Mystery 2012-03-24T02:00:18.017Z
In bowers of laurel trimly dight, We will outwear the silent night, While Flora busy is to spread Her richest treasure on our bed. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z
The simple reason is that Latin and Greek quotation which were once held to be, as Mr Disraeli said of invective, an ornament of debate, have passed into the heritage of outworn words and faces. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z
The official, academic painters were merely ringing the changes upon a stock of outworn formulas. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z
Instead we are trying to readjust ourselves to a practice that is outworn. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z
My dear Gosse, I hurl this after you, there, for good luck, like the outworn shoe of ancient usage. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z
"Why, I was at home," she said, her surprise not yet outworn. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z
She answered lightly as in scorn, "The file is rusted and outworn, 'Tis used no more in prose or rhyme." Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z
No lover of extremes, but in no way blind to the impossibility of maintaining the old, outworn system of government. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z
Decentralization into States was impossible, for men never go back to outworn forms, and State boundaries had ceased to be the real lines of division in American society. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z
It outwears the protests and appeals of total generations of unhelped, indignant hearts. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z
My soul is not a palace of the past, Where outworn creeds, like Rome's gray senate quake, Hearing afar the Vandal's trumpet hoarse, That shakes old systems with a thunder-fit. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z
The theory that opinions and institutions are justified as “stepping-stones,” survivals not yet quite outworn, always carries the presumption that we are the apex—an assumption, of course, which evolutionary theory does not bear out. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z
Now is the volume of my youth outworn, And all my spring-tide blossoms rent and torn. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z
I believe that it has not dawned on the most well-intentioned of my readers that here is the outcome of a sane philosophic sensibility, and not a medley of a hundred outworn paradoxes and heterodoxes. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z
In most communities leather will outwear cloth and in any event cloth becomes shabby, even when perfectly strong, much more quickly than leather. Library Bookbinding 2011-12-24T03:07:58.950Z
If the medi�val part of Christianity is as inextricable as you say it is, then I will grant you that 'Christian thought' is an outworn system compared with the immortal mind of Greece. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z
He blew out the candles one after another, and in the unreal morning twilight, the aftermath of smoke curled like an outworn pleasure into extinction save of a foul odour. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z
When Khayyam quittance at Death's hand receives, And sheds his outworn life, as trees their leaves, Full gladly will he sift this world away, Ere dustmen sift his ashes in their sieves. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z
This sad and outworn lady is mounted on your own grey palfrey. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z
When the French joint is used the leather need not be pared and ordinarily will outwear the paper of the book. Library Bookbinding 2011-12-24T03:07:58.950Z
If war thou hast wrought and brought on me, No laggard I with arms outworn. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z
They hang on the walls now, poor relicks of an outworn delight. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z
The work was characteristic of his self-centred isolation: ultra-romantic at a time when Romanticism was already an outworn fashion, remote alike from the spirit of the age and from that of Goethe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z
So weak was he that he sank on the ground, all outworn, and the sweat fell from his body upon the pavement of the crypt. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z
She forgot that it was old and outworn already; she saw in it only newness and liberty and delight. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z
You are a man of by far too much practical sense to be humbugged by such outworn pedantry, and your own particular purpose in penning Silas is of course most distinctly apparent. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z
When the convulsions set up by the snuff had outworn their first violence, he fixed his monocle upon the guest's chair. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z
It outwore the stoutest oak, the toughest elm. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z
Here is a young professor who does not propose to rest content with inadequate facilities and outworn methods. Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College 2011-10-08T02:00:24.723Z
To the authors of both, the classical, the established forms of expression belonging to their respective arts, seem outworn, inadequate, cramped. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z
That leaves some $140 billion for infrastructure -- improving outworn school buildings, roads, bridges, ports, and so on. Obama's jobs plan isn't enough 2011-09-09T13:01:00Z
"Not if you claim kinship with Cain, who was the originator of that very badly outworn query," came the answer shot-like. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z
Love-enwrapped, your eyes Failed in my love Love's self to recognise: You saw its outer garment, where the green Of perfect faith was marred by passion's sheen, By outworn patience and desire's disguise. Songs of Womanhood 2011-08-21T02:00:31.203Z
And if the forms are unsuitable and outworn, the same calamity happens, the strong new feelings break through them, “and the wine perisheth, and the skins.” The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z
It could even dignify some outworn modes of transatlantic speech which still preserved a perpetual freshness in the mouth of Hilton Toye. The Thousandth Woman 2011-08-15T02:00:25.383Z
There is many an American expression of a pungent freshness which authors, weary of an outworn vocabulary, seize eagerly. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z
While it walks the earth as yet, is it not only as the ghost of an outworn phase of human interest? Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z
The outworn institution is often the grit in the machine that prevents it running smoothly. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z
The creed is outworn but the roots of faith are never dead. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z
Private contractors are preparing to sink it into the Atlantic Ocean, the latest addition to a Navy recycling program that turns outworn battleships into marine life habitats. Artificial reef projects raise environmental questions 2011-07-17T21:29:00Z
A new hope appeared to arise within his outworn, wearied heart. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z
How the dream outwore the night and strengthened as morning broke gray and cold, and quiet with the stillness of the desert, we need not follow. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z
The Dumb Show, Chorus, and Soliloquy are now outworn devices for setting forth necessary initial expository facts. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z
Science was to be taught to our children in the place of the outworn fables of the Bible. Teaching the Child Patriotism 2011-07-03T02:00:11.747Z
Even Denbigh's indomitable spirit had outworn his physical strength, while the Irishman was found to be affected with partial indistinctness of vision owing to prolonged exposure to the glare of the sun. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z
Shaken in nerve and outworn by the journey, words could faintly express the need she felt for rest. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z
The temptation is to revamp and repair and reorganize the present outworn and wasteful system rather than make large new investments and scrap the old equipment. The Coming of Coal 2011-06-17T02:00:17.207Z
When Miss Margaret Anglin revived the play very successfully a year or two ago, she rightly felt these soliloquies to be outworn. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z
The Danes, cast into a condition of moral despondency and temporal poverty, with their national pride stricken, and their soil outworn, seized the things of the spirit and made material things subservient. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z
In vain my reason tried to cross the bar, The whirling storm but drove her back again; And my soul tossed, and tossed, an outworn wreck, Mastless, upon a monstrous, shoreless sea. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z
Dan McGrew registered at the hotel in the village, with a careless announcement to the clerk that the loneliness of the ranch had outworn his patience, and that his luggage would be along presently. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z
The gingham will last longer than the barege, and will be good for more uses after it is outworn as a dress. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z
“What do you,” said the child, “with a staff and a pack, and sandals outworn?” Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z
What was really involved in it was a revolt against sentimentality and against the tendency to repeat with complacency the outworn traditions of art. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z
For I find joys unnumbered when I lave The throat of man by travail long outworn, And his hot bosom is a sweeter grave Of sounder sleep than my cold caves forlorn. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z
For a while, however, the Florentines were well prepared to give an intellectual significance,-64- and with it a new life, to the outworn conventions of the Italo-Provençal lyrists. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z
But at length, thoroughly outworn with the exertion, I stopped and feigned to swoon. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z
Other documents placed beside it became invalid, useless, or outworn, and were destroyed. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z
On the first landing, under the flaring gas, which of itself was a sign of the outworn character of the place, a shabby old man in a fur cap was coming up behind them. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z
Not all the beauties in old prints vignetted, The worthless products of an outworn age, With slippered feet and fingers castanetted, The thirst of hearts like this heart can assuage. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z
“My Dear Sir, “Sick, exhausted and outworn, I have had to prepare a new lecture for Glasgow, whither I travel next Monday. Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life 2011-03-23T02:00:25.120Z
Their knot of love, Tied, weaved, ENTANGLED, with so true, so long, And with a finger of so deep a cun|ning, May be outworn, never undone. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z
He found himself in the presence of an opening rift that was to split the outworn fabric of Christendom into two contending camps. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z
Why should I stay in this prosaic land, where men wore the hideous costume of their forefathers, and women, false to all canons of art, still clung to their outworn garb? A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z
Is it worth a tear, is it worth an hour, To think of things that are well outworn? Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z
He declared that he would rather be a Pagan suckled in a creed outworn than one of those Christian worldlings, of which society seemed to him mainly to consist. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z
And it is good," said the salesman, emphatically; "it'll outwear three of those other ones downstairs. Ben Pepper 2011-02-07T03:00:21.607Z
That bids e'en us, poor relics, torn From Danaan fury, all outworn By earth and ocean, all forlorn, Its home, it's city share! Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z
Life has been lived so oft—an outworn thing! Sonnets and Songs 2011-01-29T03:00:22.093Z
Hegius did much to put an end to the older mediaeval ideas in education, which had become outworn, and to bring in the study of the classics. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z
We are simply asking that those writers of fiction who deal with the Negro shall be thoroughly honest with themselves, and not remain forever content to embalm old types and work over outworn ideas. The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States 2011-01-26T03:00:29.717Z
What has existed in the past, especially in the remote past, seems to him not only not authoritative, but irrelevant, inferior, and outworn. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z
If he should outwear the century, he would still be as blithe of speech and manner as he is to-day at—dear me, how old is the Colonel? The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise
Questions of permanent and present interest took the place of outworn scholastic problems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral"
Is it significant that we in our time have found nothing better to put there than the outworn symbol of a statue to Diana? The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z
Hurry and turmoil seemed strange and remote, part of some outworn experience. Where the Path Breaks
It is notorious that historic empiricism was strong in criticism and in demolition of outworn beliefs, but weak for purposes of constructive social direction. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
We know it now—the voice of law is only the echo of outworn superstitions. Stand Up, Ye Dead
When his former expensive clothing was outworn and he had to buy cheap materials in the shop, this amused him almost like a joke. Stories from Tagore
Oft by my faithful mirror I am told, And by my mind outworn and altered brow, My earthly powers impaired and weakened now,— "Deceive thyself no more, for thou art old!" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867
He would cast off his body like an outworn cloak, and free of it, would knock once more at the gate where, once, he had heard voices singing. Where the Path Breaks
But neither at the candle-lighted breakfast, nor later, when Ballard asked him if he were fit for a leisurely ride to the southern watershed for the day's outwearing, did he speak of young Carson's desertion. The King of Arcadia
The earth does like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn. The Book of This and That
If any of the horses come through alive, they will nevertheless be too outworn for farther travel within many weeks. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois
Perhaps they, too, knew how to stand here and drink in a mysterious light which filled their outworn bodies with youth of the spirit, at least. The Garden of Eden
It has been said that his images are conventional and outworn—that is to say, he uses the machinery of Zephyrs, Nymphs, Gods and Demigods,—and that his conceptions are antiquated. An Outline of Russian Literature
She turned her head away with a hand wave that seemed to dismiss an argument familiar and outworn. Ewing\\'s Lady
Everyone knows nowadays that wherever there is a revolutionary convulsion, there must be some social want in the background, which is prevented, by outworn institutions, from satisfying itself. Revolution and Counter-Revolution or, Germany in 1848
Lord Tennyson was certainly not lacking in dramatic faculty, but he worked in an outworn form which he had no longer the strength to renovate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin"
They were pretty well outworn and outgrown, but we were glad to get into them. Hildegarde's Harvest
A play may succeed without it, and a temporary school of psychologues may even pretend to pooh-pooh it as an outworn mode of cheap theatrics. How to See a Play
The horrid truth is that I'm a bit oldish—not aged, not outworn, mind you—my years have come and gone lightly—but at times like these I'm obliged to admit the count. Ewing\\'s Lady
Here was the enlightened Boreham entering a temple where they repeated "Creeds outworn." The New Warden
Write—with the finger of the angel-born, Upon the tablet of the human soul, That old December, wearied and outworn, Drags on his failing footsteps to the goal. Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848
In the house of Hades dwell the senseless dead, the phantoms of men outworn. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance
He was lying on the flat of his back, sleeping the sleep of the utterly outworn, and he got the full force of the shower. Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro
The sturdy mechanic had outworn his armored and tinseled lord. The Southern Soldier Boy A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy
The rise of the New Learning, the "discovery of the world and of man," the displacement of many outworn beliefs, these with other factors produced an awakening that startled kings and nations. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West
Whitman's so-called "mysticism" is a muddled echo of New England Transcendentalism; itself a pale dilution of an outworn German idealism—what Coleridge called "the holy jungle of Transcendental metaphysics." Ivory Apes and Peacocks
You wilfully misunderstand my attitude; you outwear 93 my patience. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25)
Each has been born, has grown, developed, prospered, become old, outworn, and, has finally been overthrown. Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View
Can it be, dear Somerset, that you are under the empire of these outworn scruples? or that you judge a patriot by the morality of the religious tract? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25)
The rich, sensuous country, with its peculiar profusion of exotic vegetation and the luxury of perpetual good weather, made Adelle, pale offspring of an outworn Puritanism, bloom, especially after the birth of her child. Clark's Field
Such are the innocent days of this ancient and outworn sportsman; to-day there was no weeding, usually there is however, edged in somewhere. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25)
His Coming will be the climax of old and outworn ages, the beginning of the new. Why I Preach the Second Coming
Only once on each day could he consult the mystic oracle, and once only in each month on the same subject, lest the fates be outworn by his insistence. Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp
Like all outworn customs, this one breeds abuses as it grows older. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology
Bound to one triumph, of one travail born, Doomed to one death, in one brief life we moil; The pangs that maim us and the powers that spoil Are common sorrows heired from worlds outworn. Ioläus The man that was a ghost
They were an inheritance from the imperialism of Cromwell, but were now outworn. The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841
This Brussels will outwear two ingrain carpets, at a very little advance on the first cost. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart
And he would 141crawl back to his cave like an outworn beast of burden, to sleep while she sang to him from below. Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp
The reason for this is that none of the preachers has any but an outworn standard to preach. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology
All305 was to be changed; as the day departed, it took with it the vestiges of an outworn existence, and to-morrow’s sun was to inaugurate the new. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25)
These new Canadians saw little or nothing of provinces with outworn feuds and divisions. The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841
But his rival, the Briton, had qualities which outwore him, and the patriarchal and stable methods of the Hudson's Bay Company prevailed in the end. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France
For I know that a growing multitude of men and women outwear the ancient ways. The Passionate Friends
Honesty, independence, diligence, and temperance are commended in good set terms, though with an earnestness which, as is often the case with Hazlitt, imparts some reality to outworn formulæ. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)
And he, to whom the music was outworn and a little shoddy, instantly agreed. Money Magic A Novel
Why muzzle them with fear, oppress them with threats, fetter them with outworn dogma and dead creed? Carmen Ariza
The latter half of the eighteenth century was, throughout Europe, a period of revolt against the old ideas, the outworn bonds of mediæval society. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13
His contempt for outworn conventions, his sincerity, his generosity of heart, even his impetuous nature impressed all alike with the feeling that they were dealing with one, who was essentially a man. A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912
It is a truth that outworn institutions fetter and dwarf the mind of man. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle
Carlyle's theory seems to me to be outworn, and Whitman's theory is premature. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures
The portals of her mind were well guarded against the entrance of radical thought, and her dreamers were yet lulled into lethargic adherence to outworn beliefs and musty creeds by the mesmerism of priestly tradition. Carmen Ariza
Merely a little change in that outworn document, the Constitution. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930
This robe is outworn, stretched at the seams, ragged at the edges. Love and Lucy
Yet what interested him was not the outworn tale but the pathological fact that the reminiscences of the aged are symptomatic of hardening of the arteries. The Paliser case
Whatever could not justify itself before the bar of the human intellect should be discarded as outworn conceptions of a less enlightened age. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark
The villagers soon found out that one patch of his would outwear two of the brothers’. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales
New illustrations, novel forms of definition, are often helpful in expelling the dreariness of outworn and meaningless phrases. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland
Any day now might see him dismissed like an outworn servant. The Education of Eric Lane
The days of the old pagan, "suckled in some creed outworn," are regretted in Wordsworth's sonnet; for the old pagan held to the poetical view that a star was the chariot of a deity. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies
I do not think my father's essential Christianity was in any degree diminished, he merely lost his respect for certain outworn traditions and empty creeds. A Son of the Middle Border
But what vain concession is this to the outworn ideals of a state and a condition justly superseded! Imaginary Interviews
A sleeve of the girl's frock was torn away, the outworn fabric in streamers. Rimrock Trail
The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language
Kane had never heard of a wolf acting in this cool, self-possessed, arrogantly confident fashion, and his mind reverted obstinately to the outworn superstitions of his habitants friends. Kings in Exile
Christianity is, according to Socialists, an outworn creed. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals
Whether that was really so or not, the doubt remained whether authorship was not now a creed outworn. Imaginary Interviews
The ladder is an old and outworn metaphor in this connexion. Progress and History
It clears a way for itself, boldly pushing aside every stumbling-block in the shape of outworn prejudices and decaying customs. Jewish Literature and Other Essays
The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
Old hopes revive, new hopes are born, The coming months to cheer; And phantom-fears and griefs outworn Die with the dying year. A Christmas Faggot
Divine right, monarchy, aristocracy, oppression, despotism, tyranny—these and all other devils of the old world order were bound for the limbo which awaits outworn, discredited social institutions. The American Empire
Ye move through the ranks, recall The stragglers, refresh the outworn, Praise, re-inspire the brave! Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold
Breathless, desperate, lamed, and utterly outworn, the two friends struggled up the bank and the hill beyond. The True Story Book
The whole Epistle to the Hebrews is thrown out, as a poetical clothing of "the man of Nazareth" with the fading glories of an outworn worship. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions
"Great God, I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn." Appearances Being Notes of Travel
How long, without the mainstay of religion, will the Japanese cling to this outworn but beautiful relic of his old life? The Critic in the Orient
This objection is a mere childish prejudice reinforced by outworn superstitions. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
It was in accordance with all these outworn conventions that they conducted the daily round. The Hero
A forty-dollar set of harness hung there: Carter’s harness had chains instead of leather tugs, and would outwear them several times over. The Wind Before the Dawn
The ice-cold austerity of mind, indicated in the superb contempt of the Nietzschean phrase, "human, too human," is a mood essential, if the world is to cast off its "weeds outworn." Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
Wilde's was, in the most outspoken manner, the first use of æstheticism as a slogan; the battle-cry of the group was actually the now outworn but then revolutionary "Art for Art's sake"! Modern British Poetry
The use of alcohol formerly was the outcome of ignorance, a confession of weakness and defeat; to-day it is the expression of inability to discard the fetters of an outworn routine.”—Dr. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
For the most part they were very ragged, and tanned exceedingly wherever the flesh took a peep through their outworn plaids. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
For this reason the strenuous type of character will on the battle-field of human history always outwear the easy-going type, and religion will drive irreligion to the wall. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
But, jesting aside, you must not suppose I abhor the cant of humanitarianism from any thin-blooded selfishness or outworn apathy. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance
And, without Tupper's emptiness or absurdities, the outworn platitudes again find their constant lover in Alfred Austin, Tennyson's successor as poet laureate. Modern British Poetry
So far he had not availed himself of his privileges too often and had therefore not as yet outworn his welcome, for he was a true diplomat. The Search
But the book was bad enough to kill, if a collection of outworn platitudes can produce that effect. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill
And deep in his hell sang the Devil, and this was the strain of his song: "The ancient, outworn, puritanic traditions of Right and Wrong." Songs of a Sourdough
Religion, education, medicine, war, agriculture, art, pleasure, anything—all systems are choked with clumsy, outworn methods and ignorance—the whole human race works and plays at about ten-per-cent. efficiency. The Job An American Novel
Eternal vigilance the price of liberty, or at least the safeguard against oppression, was clearly his conviction; nor did he believe in that outworn proverb not to yell before you are hurt. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life
In a speech which might have been made by Pitt in pre-Revolution times Flood declared that the events in France showed the need of a timely repair of outworn institutions. William Pitt and the Great War
The Church, rigidly organized with its ordained officials, its external machinery, and its accumulated traditions, was to them part of an old and outworn system to be left behind. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
Not here—in legend, in miracle, in the beautiful outworn forms and crystallisations of older thought. Robert Elsmere
They seemed like the dust and ashes of outworn things—things to be smiled at and cast aside. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
We go there so often that I fear Miss Sally will think we mean to outwear our welcome. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904
Thus did Pitt replace the outworn Triple Alliance with Prussia and Holland by a more powerful confederacy. William Pitt and the Great War
She saw them on the earth outworn, Toiling till noon from early morn, And as she viewed her children's woe, A flood of tears began to flow. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse
“I thought—perhaps—my welcome might be outworn——” “In the house beautiful,” murmured the poet, rising and waving his heavy white hand at the open door, “welcome is eternal.” Iole
I'd rather be   A critic suckled in an age outworn   Than a blind horse that starves knee-deep in corn. Poems: New and Old
Nothing that I have ever said or done in his company could possibly have led him to suppose that I am a victim of that outworn superstition known as the honour of a gentleman. Gossamer 1915
Do you remember what the Wisest of all Masters said to his disciples when they were outworn by the weight of their work and the pressure of the crowd upon them? Days Off And Other Digressions
All the outworn superstitions of religion taking hold of people and intruding themselves into otherwise normal conversation. Greener Than You Think
Here, things had just drifted from freedom to servitude, with the people dropping their rights as a man discards outworn clothing. Alarm Clock
Yet in body she was outworn and weary. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
They will not only outwear two or three pairs of the lighter, less durable kind, but they will give warmth and comfort and a well-groomed look as well. The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture
Hester, arriving to take up her duties and finding Mrs. Trevarthen outworn with nursing, had packed her off to rest and taken her place by the invalid's bedside. Shining Ferry
His restless mind was no more satisfied with an outworn theology than with an outgrown system of transportation. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
There had been rain more than once of late, and this deluge made the road, already bad, soft and greasy as an outworn sponge. The Car of Destiny
Meis.‍I'd rather10 Ride a day's hunting on an outworn jade, Than follow in the train of a great man, In these dull pageantries. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
I am a Pagan suckled in a creed outworn,' quoted the doctor, rubbing his hands. The Bishop's Secret
The nature of the formal motion gave opportunity for renewed attacks on the whole purpose of the Bill, and all the old, familiar, outworn arguments were repeated by orator after orator from the Tory benches. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV
“Did you not find this coat after he was gone?” and he pointed to a poor masterless garment, that looked greener and more outworn than ever as it hung over the back of a chair. The Nebuly Coat
We were on the highway from the port of Malaga to Granada, yet here was a broken bridge, a noble structure which should have outworn centuries, tumbling into ruin. The Car of Destiny
May we hope the same For outworn Europe? The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
Again, it was her heart "outwearing its sheath," as she put it. Elsie Marley, Honey
Within my heart, these things are small; This is not small, that things outwear I thought were made for ever, yea, all, All things go soon or late, I said. The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems
To follow an obsolete usage may be defended on the plea that it is a good one, but when it is bad as well as outworn, no excuse for it can satisfy a modern reader. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
Kilmeny was going because he knew that he might easily outwear his welcome. The Highgrader
She, outworn with woe and weeping, Shared that influence from above; And the fear of death went sleeping In the maiden faith and love. Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse
Yet I, at least, keep faith, and in your face I fling faith like a glove—outworn, it may be, and, God knows, unclean! Chivalry
They outwear a night and a day in rowing, ascend the long reaches, and pass under the chequered shadows of the trees, and cut through the green woodland in the calm water. The Aeneid of Virgil
Hellas": "The world's great age begins anew,       The golden years return,   The earth doth like a snake renew       Her winter weeds outworn;   Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam,       Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. Human Traits and their Social Significance
If we live, we must move on, we must change, we must outwear every motion, however poignant or deep. The Coast of Bohemia
Th' ode rip was tellin' the young un that outworn lie about the brook. Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray
Strange how we use phrases which have outworn their meaning! Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
Behold the faith and hand of him! who, they say, carries his household's ancestral gods about with him! who stooped his shoulders to a father outworn with age! The Aeneid of Virgil
Against the outworn past with its disillusions, its errors, its evils, and its hypocrisies, the new shines out in glorious contrast. Human Traits and their Social Significance
Like some gaunt oak wert thou, that lonely stands 'Mid fallen trunks in outworn, desert lands; Still sound at core, with rhythmic leaves that stir To soft swift touches of aerial hands. The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879
Now, Welkie, I'm only trying to show you where you ought to cast aside certain outworn traditions and face actual present-day truths. Sonnie-Boy's People
Vigour and energetic enterprise flourish only where daily anxieties have had to be outworn. Maxim Gorki
Then was I fast in mine ill-fated bridal chamber, deep asleep and outworn with my charge, and lay overwhelmed in slumber sweet and profound and most like to easeful death. The Aeneid of Virgil
This Undine of the West End, of the later end of the outworn century had discovered the soul that was in her formerly undeveloped system. The Dictator
As with our own bodies, the outworn garb will be laid aside, and the spirit will find a finer form. Spirit and Music
Davis might aid such a move as a consideration for recognition, and certainly Seward was too busy with his own troubles to intervene on behalf of an “outworn” Monroe Doctrine. Expansion and Conflict
The first cost is greater, but it outwears muslin or linen. Textiles and Clothing
Thereat he: 'Desire of glory is not gone, nor ambition checked by fear; but torpid age dulls my chilly blood, and my strength of limb is numb and outworn. The Aeneid of Virgil
Influenza had weakened and depressed him; he looked worn, and even outworn. Clayhanger
So the Art of the future may be expected to ally itself with religion, on the side of spirit, for the battle royal against the forces of an outworn materialism. Spirit and Music
And so eager were the country folk along the march to see our backs, that, had we been minded to tarry long in any place, we should have soon outworn our welcome. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess
The custom of using magic stones was not at all incongruous with the early Pictish civilisation, which retained a form of the Family now long outworn by the civilisation of the Arunta.  The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore
Unhappy Acoetes is led along, outworn with age, he smites his breast and rends his face, and flings himself forward all along the ground. The Aeneid of Virgil
History teaches also, but with an inflection of doubt, that the outworn institution in such a conjuncture faces disestablishment. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
Weddings should be actually happy affairs—not stiff, gloomy ceremonies cumbered with outworn conventions. Torchy, Private Sec.
Gold is power everywhere; Best of friends in toil and care; And it surely will outwear Royal purple here or there! Shakspere, Personal Recollections
I had asked her to go home with me, and she had refused because she is so afraid of outwearing her welcome. Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College
The outworn Aeneadae hasten to run for the nearest shore, and turn to the coast of Libya. The Aeneid of Virgil
Amongst some very questionable metaphysics and much outworn—sometimes repulsive—superstition, he grasps the central truths on which all really noble morality must be based. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
"Love is the greatest Amulet that makes this world a garden: and 'Hope comes to all' outwears the accidents of life; and reaches with tremulous hands beyond the grave and Death." The Great Amulet
All over the world socialists are breaking away from the stultifying influence of the outworn determinism. A Preface to Politics
He saw that Frau Bucher's insistence on a chaperone, which he had regarded a silly, outworn conventionality, appeared most wise. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life
But we soon came to a realizing sense of the ominous fact that Germany was the one nation of Europe which openly despised and flouted the Monroe Doctrine as an outworn superstition. Fighting For Peace
How fresh and new becomes that which we thought outworn with use and touched with decay! Under the Trees and Elsewhere
Cicero on the other hand had been nurtured in a creed and philosophy alike outworn. Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study
Each one carries along a quantity of inert and outworn ideas,--not infrequently there is an internally contradictory current. A Preface to Politics
Slavery in any important form is acknowledged to be an outworn, decadent economic policy. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life
Hygiene has repudiated the outworn doctrine that mortality is fatality and must exact year after year a fixed and inevitable sacrifice. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science
He was gone, but the newly aroused resolution, the outworn swimmer's stubborn steeling of the nerves and muscles to make one more stroke before he drowns, persisted. Branded
These buckets are made of the best charcoal stamping iron, and are warranted to outwear six of the "OLDSTYLE BUCKETS." Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
Thy mother is gone from thee," said the voice, "outworn by thine evil ways. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3
Then the freshness wears off it, and the name becomes an outworn print, a label that serves only to recall the memory of past travel.  Romance Two Lectures
The wife professes to enter into the joke; but in her heart she laughs to see the two men go solemnly through the stupid and outworn ceremonial. The Patient Observer And His Friends
How edifying the spectacle of those who are battling with the forces of a firmly intrenched orthodoxy in their struggle to emancipate themselves from the fetters of an outworn creed! The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh
The nations had, like tattered garments long outworn, fallen into a pitiful condition. Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Will humanity continue in its waywardness, holding to outworn concepts and unworkable assumptions? The Promise of World Peace
All literature, except the strongest and purest, is cumbered with useless matter—the conventional epithet, the grandiose phrase, the outworn classical quotation, the self-conscious apology, the time-honored joke.  Romance Two Lectures
For it is only too obvious that in most of its fundamental assumptions the Cause of Bahá’u’lláh is completely at variance with outworn creeds, ceremonies, and institutions. Directives from the Guardian
The prime cause for all these happenings is racial, national, religious, and political prejudice, and the root of all this prejudice lies in outworn and deepseated traditions, be they religious, racial, national, or political. Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era
When they first met, the titanic toiler, outworn with his cares and battles, was at the edge of death. The Friendships of Women
Do we not commonly speak of love as being outworn by offense or neglect? The Empire of Love
Even when he is upon a theme so outworn as the "Pageants that have adorned England of late," he can always astonish with some grave paradox. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920
It is kept alive, among the superstitious vestiges of the outworn and out grown past, only by the power of tradition, authority, and custom. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
And so we have their piteous and plaintive plea for the obsolete and the outworn. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
Babson has little sympathy with the arguments of self-interest of business men or with the outworn methods of the church in industrial communities. Modern Religious Cults and Movements
Indeed, he rejects antiquity, deliberately "using peasants as ... protagonists instead of kings—who, like Pharaoh, are 'but a cry in Egypt,' outworn figures in these days with no beauty and no significance." Irish Plays and Playwrights
"An observant eye is better than a yearning ear, and patience outwears curiosity!" Caves of Terror
It has been the fashion among our younger writers to speak slightingly and flippantly of Emerson, referring to him as outworn, and as the apostle of the obvious. The Last Harvest
Little remains to us of those days, and we have outworn their jollity. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series
To us nowadays the thought seems remote; the question which called it forth outworn. The Age of the Reformation
There's a real chance now of sweeping away the old outworn traditions. The Loom of Youth
Kiss Delia's hand for her sweet prophet's sake, Whose not affected but well couchèd tears Have power, have worth, a marble mind to shake, Whose fame no iron-age or time outwears. Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia
In view of the fact that she believed love to be dead between them, this method of stimulating an outworn romance seemed sentimental and insincere. The Mayor of Warwick
He was old and outworn, and he remained in the Established Kirk, and advised no man to leave it. Historical Mysteries
Scorn deep and strong as death and life, that lit With fire the smile at lies and dreams outworn Wherewith he smote them, showed sublime in it The splendour and the steadfastness of scorn. Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI
No, no, discard it with your outworn dresses. Love's Comedy
Her genuine human sympathy was directed by an ancient and outworn code of duties. The War and the Churches
Clearly mythology and nature-poetry are closely allied though centuries come between: they breathe the same air though "creeds outworn" have yielded place to deeper faiths. Nature Mysticism
Them and their children's children evermore Ye Tyrians, with immortal hate outwear. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor
Even the ordinary ghost-stories and traditions of Germany are outworn and forgotten in this town. The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches
She says she can not help thanking the Lord in her prayers, that all of us outwear our shoes before we can outgrow them.—Connie is only nine. Prudence of the Parsonage
If the old legends of Olympus were outworn, philosophy was still a living faith, and every sort of superstition flourished luxuriantly. The Arian Controversy
Never guessed, outworn and heartless, There was land so close aboard? Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen
O happy spouse! not left, like me, to mourn A son thus slaughtered, and a life outworn. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor
Then Fate, her jest outworn, blew them to shore On the green islands called the Isles of Thieves, And brought them to more islands—and still more, A kingdom of bright lands in sunny seas. Days of the Discoverers
Gordon had listened impatiently, as to an ancient and outworn philosophy. Contrary Mary
Even in sleep it preserved its cast of high assurance, its note of ideals outworn and discounted. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories
Democracy at heart was correcting its own evils and like a snake sloughing off its outworn skin. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine
The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. The Hundred Best English Poems
Needles and thread do not constantly break; no soaping of seams is required; the goods not being overbleached will outwear goods bleached by the old process. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6
Now like a bird am I, That painted in a picture cannot fly Nor move nor sing; my heart is so outworn With all the lingering sorrow I have borne. Hindustani Lyrics
You are a newcomer, Jack, and you know not how near outworn the country is. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady
Take, oh take those boots away,    That so nearly are outworn; And those shoes remove, I pray—    Pumps that but induce the corn! Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses
He has, therefore, kept much of his mediæval impedimenta, his dukes and marquesses and all that they imply—his outworn ceremonies and his mediæval disregard of his social inferiors. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II
Needles and thread do not constantly break; no soaping of seams is required; the goods not being overbleached will outwear goods bleached by the old process. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6
Do they keep all these outworn things because they are incapable of changing anything, or do these outworn burdens keep them from becoming able to change anything? The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I
So long as I can enjoy myself and get my own way, why should I vex myself with the outworn question, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The Discipline of War Nine Addresses on the Lessons of the War in Connection with Lent
Thou art My glory and My glory fadeth not; thou art My robe and My robe shall never be outworn. The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh
Irreverent toward all outworn superstitions, he has ever revealed the deepest respect for all things truly worthy of reverence. Inquiries and Opinions
Needles and thread do not constantly break; no soaping of seams is required; the goods not being overbleached will outwear goods bleached by the old process. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6
Thank God!" he cried, "I have outworn that mania of searching for prettiness. A Comedy of Masks A Novel
Such a worm gear will, I fancy, outwear a dozen of the scientific sort. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
They are popularly supposed to outwear the bleached, but are somewhat trying bedfellows until whitened. The Complete Home
Syndicalism, with all its vagaries, its crude reversal to outworn ideas and methods, is, nevertheless, fundamentally an expression of that yearning. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy
"Doesn't it beat the dickens what a little world this is?" he exclaimed, with a true bromidian disregard for the outworn and the axiomatic. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
An amazing feat, and one which disposes for all time of that old, outworn legend that the Spain of the fifteenth page 42and early sixteenth centuries was a moribund and degenerate nation. American Men of Action
Hermes is here a rustic doublure of Apollo, as he was, in fact, mainly a rural p. 37deity, though he became the Messenger of the Gods, and the Guide of Souls outworn The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological
But not for long thine oriflamme could bear That symbol of an outworn trust in kings. The Poems of Henry Van Dyke
We have lost the old absolute philosophies and dogmatic theologies and that is good and right, for they were outworn. Preaching and Paganism
There were two days of suspense to be outworn, and if he could have compassed it he would have been glad to efface himself completely. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
The world moved, and Spain, chained to an outworn superstition, did not move with it. American Men of Action
In her winter retreat below the earth she was the bride of the Lord of Many Guests, and the ruler “of the souls of men outworn.” The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological
There are other versions: in any case the hungry men were so outworn that many are said to have slept through next day’s battle. A Short History of Scotland
George Meredith’s prayer for us, “more brain, O Lord, more brain!” we shall still need when “votes for women” has become an outworn slogan. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3
It was the revolt of those who had this in common with the pietists, that they hated and despised the outworn rationalism. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant
No, in the political revolutions we broke up artificial, outworn and unjust combinations; but in this domestic revolution we are breaking up and must readjust the fundamental unit of life. Woman in Modern Society
It was the greatest risk of all when they insisted on continuing on the old outworn ways and so became extinct. Little Essays of Love and Virtue
But when ye have killed, and your bowl is spilled,   And your shoes are clean outworn, Back ye must speed for all that ye need,   To Oak, and Ash, and Thorn! Songs from Books
Those who had rushed hitherward seeking gold were gone; be the explanation where it might, shacks stood with doors flung wide; tents had been torn down, outworn articles discarded, dumped helter-skelter into the road. The Desert Valley
But the thorough-going naturalist cast off these implications as the last rags of a creed outworn. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant
Only through training their minds could they have broken away from an outworn past. Woman in Modern Society
Her mother, living gently in the afterglow of an outworn gospel. The Real Adventure
I know that a growing multitude of men and women outwear the ancient ways. H. G. Wells
Tommy, aged seven—Because he has outworn everything he hasn't outgrown. More Toasts
The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations
Some parts of these meanings are remnants of historic, and possibly outworn, experience; other parts are the result of more or less deliberate perversion under the stress of deep feelings aroused by opposition and fighting. Woman in Modern Society
Both would unite in the prayer God send us men whose aim will be Not to defend some outworn creed, and some members of both entertain the suspicion that all creeds are outworn. The Unity of Civilization
To Froude it appeared as if the disturbed state of the country were an emblem of distracted Churches and outworn creeds. The Life of Froude
Don't try to tell me that your judgment is maimed by the Chinese shoes of outworn ideas, such as the binding nature of a mediaeval ceremony. The Brimming Cup
Change as thou canst to themes in every key, That so for thee and others time may pass Full of presagings of content to be Age-long in that far bourne, Till thought end, quite outworn. Songs, Sonnets & Miscellaneous Poems
Meantime the old arguments against woman suffrage are too outworn to need serious attention. Woman in Modern Society
The Revolution as the last great attempt to reinstate the full Roman ideal in its outworn form. The Unity of Civilization
The kind manufactured for hotels and restaurants and of sufficient capacity, is more expensive, but will outwear two outfits of the cheaper type and is really more economical in the long run. Camping For Boys
Come away from a position where only an outworn old ideal holds you to futility and waste. The Brimming Cup
Iron kettles far outwear tin ones, but the comparative difficulty of making them boil, and their great weight, are very objectionable. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries
Haply I am some hind who guards the stall, Or of vile lineage, or with years outworn, Poor, or a cripple born, Or faint of spirit that you spurn me so? Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
Religiously its pagan faiths were outworn and dying or dead. A Wonderful Night; An Interpretation Of Christmas
The cyclic forces, outworn and old, produced after that no order that you can go upon: events followed each other higgledipiggledy and inertly;— but it was the Illyrian legions that put him on the throne. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
Mistress Deborah, in her tarnished amber satin and ribbons that had outworn their youth, bit her lip and tapped her foot upon the ground. Audrey
He is young at sixty, while the son who is half his age, is "lean, outworn and really old." A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
It is the office and function of the imagination to renew life in lights and sounds and emotions that are outworn and familiar. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays
Under any other, the lightest, he must at last sink outworn, his very soul gray with sickness! Hope of the Gospel
Who "tidies" things each Monday morn, And hides—until, with search outworn, I wish I never had been born? Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, Jan. 2, 1892
The publications of the day have caricatured the situation until it has become an outworn jest. Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework Business principles applied to housework
So died that hour, and fell into the abysm Of forms outworn, but not to be outworn, Who never hail'd another worth the Life That made it sensible. The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
If you must have a string of loafers to prove that your attractions outwear anno domini, I must accept Hartley, and other Hartleys, so long as you continue to play the same game. The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery
It was a peculiarity of this man that everything he carried was more or less broken and outworn In the Wrong Paradise
For the will of the Norns is accomplished, and outworn is Grimhild's spell And nought now shall blind or help him, and the tale shall be to tell. The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature
A watch, a ring, an outworn suit of clothes, a chair, a set of books, all these will find willing purchasers. Shandygaff
My patience and my courtesy are both outworn. Clementina
Creeds we are told, are outworn, and yet we are confronted, from birth to death, with situations that imperiously require action of some sort. A Librarian's Open Shelf
Then I knew him to be no other than Hermes of the golden rod, the guide of the souls of men outworn In the Wrong Paradise
They are the gods of his youth, and, whether he has been 'suckled in a creed outworn' or not, he knows no other. Some Private Views
My soul is not a palace of the past, Where outworn creeds, like Rome's gray senate, quake, Hearing afar the Vandal's trumpet hoarse, That shakes old systems with a thunder-fit. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
The place was hollow and unlived in as an outworn shell. Out of the Ashes
Or hast thou Fall'n from thy faith in Her and Love ere now, And is thy passion as a robe outworn? The Poems of William Watson
The plains are threaded by rapid winding brooks and are dotted here and there with quaint villages, curiously picturesque from their combining traces of an outworn old-world civilization with new and raw barbarism. The Rough Riders
What time has eaten modern and clumsy hands have tried to repair; yet a glance will tell you that the old sound work means to outwear the patches. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales
One may see now how outworn she was, how miraculously she still held on. Light
Ye move through the ranks, recall The stragglers, refresh the outworn, Praise, reinspire the brave. Voices for the Speechless
And, like a hurt and tired child, outworn and suffering, she yielded herself, unquestioningly, to his ministrations. The Air Trust
"Why should I subject myself to petty martyrdom for the sake of an outworn creed and a decaying sect?" Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People
The phenomena of séances are looked on with deserved distrust, and, generally, may be regarded as an outworn mode of swindling.  Cock Lane and Common-Sense
The husk alone remained—a finicky pretentious framework, fluttering with the faded rags of ideals long outworn. Landmarks in French Literature
Dry Lake was like many, many other outworn "cow towns" through which he had passed; changed without being bettered; all of the old life taken out of it in the process of its taming. The Phantom Herd
A pair of gauntlets will outwear three or four pairs of gloves. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do
But the new organization had nothing to work with except these outworn remnants of a discarded system. George Washington, Volume II
These, often forsaking paths more profitable, lend their skilled assistance, not seeking to impose the ancient outworn forms upon the Newness, but by a transfusion of consciousness permitting it to create forms of its own. Architecture and Democracy
The most vulgar and outworn simile is refreshed with a grace by the touch of Chatterton. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843
Perhaps; but I confess I love old forms and usages, and cling to creeds outworn. In the Days of My Youth
Or, rather, his brain lived, and compelled the shattered and outworn body to comply with its will. The Night Horseman
New social ideals are difficult for men to acquire in a practical way because their minds are filled with old traditions, inherited memories, outworn theories of law, government, and social control. What eight million women want
Still you are very foolish, in your latest incarnation, to be wasting your rays upon carpet earls who will not outwear a century. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919
The old tribal strife continued for long centuries; the instincts which inspired it are, even now, not quite outworn. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque
The brutal aspects overlap and outwear; refinement has the feebler and more ephemeral hold on reality. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
That they are in truth birth-pangs does not lessen the grim and hopeless woe of the race supplanted; of the race outworn or overthrown. The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790
Bill Gregg, outworn by the strain of the long watching and the shock of the disappointment of that day, went completely to pieces and in the early evening fell asleep. Ronicky Doone
Claire's invitation to be one of a distinguished group fed her vanity long after her daughter had outworn the delights of retrospection. The Blood Red Dawn
Yet I, at least, keep faith, and in your face I fling faith like a glove—outworn, it may be, and God knows, unclean! Chivalry
That pagan creed, in which Wordsworth passionately wished himself suckled, is not "outworn." Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
Last month you could not come to us because your wife was just then outworn with standing in the hot kitchen and stewing jams and marmalades. Figures of Earth
Did she sleep the weary and outworn sleep of the wretched while those sweet and soothing visions were still busy at her heart? The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 2
Once alone, Josephine flung herself face downward upon the bed and burst into a storm of tears, her fine courage for once outworn. The Purchase Price
But so spacious was the Southern area that the people never lacked fresh fields when their old ones were outworn. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
This modern feeling of ours is quite different from the outworn "pathetic fallacy," which was a purely sentimental attitude. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
When he came in the thing was done, and he slept the sleep of an outworn laborer. The Grafters
Sometimes a play proved so popular that its original costumes, outworn, had to be renewed. Cheerful—By Request
I should not venture to address you, had not my name, accepted by the ears of every prince in Europe, outworn much of its native indignity. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Yet Nature never grows outworn,—is unwearied in the bounty which she bestows on the seeker. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
Through Orient seas, o'er Afric's plain     And Asian mountains borne,   The vigor of the Northern brain     Shall nerve the world outworn. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
Keats, like Shakspeare, and every other true poet, put his whole soul into what he imagined, portrayed, or embodied; and hence he appeared the young Greek, "suckled in that creed outworn." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
For, we never got over it; the threadbare Orrery outwore our mutual tenderness; the man with the wand was too much for the boy with the bow. The Uncommercial Traveller
And there was such a solemn melody, 'Twixt doleful songs, tears, and sad elegies,— Such as old grandames, watching by the dead, Are wont to outwear the night with. Ivanhoe
It seems to me I've been a fish out of water in too many outworn systems. This Side of Paradise
Was the hope that still stirred within him only the memory of abandoned things, the vestige of a creed outworn? When the Sleeper Wakes
We wear the same clothing winter and summer, which, once put on, we may on no account put off until it be old and quite outworn. Barlaam and Ioasaph
The Tower of Hate is outworn, far and strange; A transitory shame of long ago; It dies into the sand from which it sprang; But thine, Love's rock-built Tower, shall fear no change. Life and Letters of Robert Browning
It is really such an outworn theme that the very mention of it is greeted with smiles or supercilious shrugs, and even lovers of their kind have grown apologetic about it. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10
But when ye have killed, and your bowl is spilled, And your shoes are clean outworn, Back ye must speed for all that ye need, To Oak and Ash and Thorn! Puck of Pook's Hill
We read his last despatch, framed with wonted grace and clearness; then - on the same day - we see the outworn frame break down, and follow mournfully two days later the afflicting details of his death.  Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake
Simply to save an outworn system of interpretation into which the gifted preacher happened to be born. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
Such are the innocent days of this ancient and outworn sportsman; to-day there was no weeding, usually there is however, edge in somewhere. Vailima Letters
An outworn theme, doubtless; but there is enough in it still to thrill the heart and bring tears to the eyes. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10
You wilfully misunderstand my attitude; you outwear my patience.  Prince Otto, a Romance
All was to be changed; as the day departed, it took with it the vestiges of an outworn existence, and to-morrow’s sun was to inaugurate the new.  Merry Men
"MUST is a word which intelligent people do not outwear by too constant usage." The Certain Hour
Thou sayest my faith has been forfeit, O fair in thy glittering raiment; But I wearied my steed and outwore it, And for what but the love that bare thee? The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald
And deep in his hell sang the Devil, and this was the strain of his song: "The ancient, outworn, Puritanic traditions of Right and Wrong." The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
Only a solitary cracked-voice reed-sparrow greeted her from the bushes by the river, in a sad, machine-made tone, resembling that of a past friend whose friendship she had outworn. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The church has, indeed, "adhered to outworn creeds" in her confessions. Love's Final Victory
But this is outworn talk, the prattle of Cain's babyhood. The Certain Hour
Towards noon the heat grew so dreadful that they were obliged to lie down to rest under the shade of some palm-like trees, and here, absolutely outworn, they sank into a kind of sleep. Fair Margaret
When I first saw Dame Melicent the sea was languid, as if outworn by vain endeavours to rival the purple of her eyes. Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship
Lo! on pinions bright, The Love-god comes, a yellow cincture bearing, To bind thee ever to thy dear delight, In nuptial knot, all other knots outwearing. The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse
After glancing at the progress of science, and the effect of the higher criticism, he says: "It is alleged that the church has sometimes alienated thoughtful men by her adherence to outworn creeds." Love's Final Victory
Still, you are very foolish, in your latest incarnation, to be wasting your rays upon carpet earls who will not outwear a century. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages
That he should use the conventional supernatural machinery is natural and permissible, though tedious to the modern reader, who finds it hard to sympathize with outworn literary conventions. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
Domesticity is a rare outworn virtue here, I assure you. The Gray Dawn
The lantern itself must, she thought, have been made when the invention was in its infancy, and its pictured slides seemed the remnants of various outworn series. Weighed and Wanting
The old man rests: Pain hath outworn itself, and turned to ease. Sanders' Union Fourth Reader
Without any invention or constructive power of his own, Silius copies with tasteless pedantry all the outworn traditions of the heroic epic. Latin Literature
In death at last, outworn, tortured humanity would find repose!—or if not, what followed could not, at worst, be worse than what went before! There & Back
But the full years have wrought equality:   The past outworn, shall not the future bring   A deeper union, from whose life shall spring Mankind's best hope? A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917
The loftiest fear         All that they would disdain to think were true:         Hypocrisy and Custom make their minds         The fanes of many a worship now outworn. The Heavenly Twins
His championship of the much vaunted and little exercised freedom of religious opinion swept the blasphemy laws into the lumber room of outworn tyrannies. Woman and the New Race
Then, as now, somewhat outworn in mind and in health, he had closed a period of labour and faced new conditions, new habits, unaccustomed freedom and leisure. The Far Horizon
"Yes," Maurice assented, somewhat doubtfully; "but it is so hard to have patience with creeds that are entirely outworn." The Puritans
An objection is not "outworn" until answered, and to speak of the demise of a generally accepted theory is hardly scientific. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
To both it seemed a great sacrifice, something in the nature of a crowning misfortune in their bad luck, to have to spend day after day cooped up in a corner ripping off outworn soles. The Quest
What shall be said of us who permit outworn laws and customs to persist in piling up the appalling sum of public expense, misery and spiritual degradation? Woman and the New Race
Why did Signor Fogazzaro in choosing his hero revert to that outworn type? The Saint
A creed is never really outworn so long as a single man sincerely believes in it. The Puritans
I have a sneaking mania for wood-cuts, particularly when used to illustrate the indispensable psychological crisis of some outworn romance. The Enormous Room
I do not feel that the weary man outworn by toil needs a fine house and books and culture and free air; he needs to feel that his position, also, is as good as these. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis
The lonely turret, shatter'd, and outworn, Stands venerably proud; too proud to mourn Its long lost grandeur: fir trees grow around, Aye dropping their hard fruit upon the ground. Poems 1817
Only she took Noie's hand and pressed it in silent sympathy, until at length the poor girl, utterly outworn with agony and the fatigue of her long flight, fell asleep, there in the sunshine. The Ghost Kings
Again I have to say 'which seem to you outworn.' The Puritans
Let me tell you, Mr. Wooster, that I appreciate your splendid defiance of the outworn fetishes of a purblind social system. Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories
I have no sympathy with those who look on the Bible as an outworn book and the Church as an institution whose symbols are empty of meaning. Impressions and Comments
Their fuller knowledge was altogether too recent to have gone very deep, and they had many institutions and many leaders dedicated to the perpetuation of outworn notions which would otherwise have disappeared. The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform
As a man lays aside outworn garments, and takes others that are new, so the Body-Dweller puts away outworn bodies and goes to others that are new. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions
Hellas is an outworn ship; let us build a new one, and undertake a new Argonautic enterprise to a new Colchis to win another Golden Fleece, following the path of the sun westward. Historical Miniatures
It was Wordsworth who wrote       "Great God, I had rather be     A Pagan suckled in some creed outworn;   So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,     Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn." The Pleasures of Life
We cannot count too precious in any age those who sweep away outworn traditions, effete routines, the burden of unnecessary duties and superfluous luxuries and useless moralities, too heavy to be borne. Impressions and Comments
No alert American can visit any foreign country without noting innumerable examples of stupid adherence to outworn and cumbrous methods in industry, commerce, and transportation. The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform
And there's the bitterness   Of this unending torture-place for men,   For the proud soul that craves a perfectness   That might outwear the rotting of all things   Rooted in earth. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
A colored woman, in a crisp white turban, with a strained face more gray than brown, suddenly advanced holding before her in both hands a heavy revolver of an outworn pattern. The Happy End
In a considerable portion of the Russian Jewish community a process of culture regeneration began, an eager throwing off of outworn forms of life and thought, a swift adoption of humane principles. Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history
There were no ancient classics studied in the school which he attended,—fortunately, perhaps, for his best work is free from the outworn classical allusions which decorate the bulk of eighteenth-century verse. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
So Quarrier and Harrington went away—the younger partner taking leave of the older with a sneer for an outworn prop which no man could ever again have use for. The Fighting Chance
But the steady growth of centuries has left nothing but the outworn shell of the old religion and the old loyalty. Castilian Days
The frightful perils and exposures of the week past seemed to have fallen from him like an outworn mantle. Darkness and Dawn
Iconoclastic zeal against outworn or corrupt institutions fires our facile enthusiasm. Letters of Catherine Benincasa
I had outworn the physical network upon which the soul depends, and I was full of terrors. The Path to Rome
Again that unnerving doubt, that paralysing distrust, beset him, and tempted him to curse the day in which he had returned to this outworn Old World. Indian Summer
And I doubt not, but that we all need that warning not to give up "The ancient, outworn, Puritanic traditions of Right and Wrong." Giant Hours with Poet Preachers
And as some foregleam of the future came to him, his fears dropped from him like those outworn rags he had discarded in the forest. Darkness and Dawn
He was the type of that portion of the race which, stubborn but outworn, has not life enough to spread itself abroad, and shrinks into a sentiment of aggressive self-defence. Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War
We want no arbitrary monarchs, wise or brutal: from the noblest of emperors to the butcher of Berlin, we would sweep them all aside, to the ash-heap of outworn tools. The Soul of Democracy The Philosophy of the World War in Relation to Human Liberty
The wisdom of this arrangement, which lasted about a year and a half—until, in fact, its usefulness was outworn by the union of both the Medinan tribes under his leadership —was immediate and far-reaching. Mahomet Founder of Islam
It had been outworn in Mr. Karkeek's office; rust had intensified its original defects of design, and it produced the minimum of result with the maximum of means. Hilda Lessways
And mournful-glad came down the One,   And kneeled, and clasped His child; Sank on His breast the outworn man,   And wept until he smiled. A Hidden Life and Other Poems
The doctor felt an impulse of irritation against the absent mother who let the girl outwear her strength. Up the Hill and Over
Through Orient seas, o'er Afric's plain,     And Asian mountains borne,   The vigor of the Northern brain     Shall nerve the world outworn. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858
Oh, would that I might die, for her to find     Raiment in my outworn mortality! Sonnets
Before he had taken a taxi at the Ferry Building it had dawned on him that his best suit of clothes was somewhat outworn. The Everlasting Whisper
I have had but one wig since the last I had of you, and yours has outworn it. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
High thoughts, high resolves; but the brain that was over-tasked, and the frame that was outworn, would be tasked and worn little longer. Byron
Now at last arises the opportunity for our outworn Civilization to make a fresh start. The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife
For now the colonel was tired—physically outworn, it seemed to him, as if after prolonged exertion—and now the moon looked down upon him, passionless, cold, inexorable, and seemed to await the colonel's decision. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations
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