as old as the hills

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as old as the hills

ancient Some of these rituals are as old as the hills.

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Old Barley might be as old as the hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in Chinks's Basin to fill it to overflowing. Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context His family is as old as the hills, and infinitely more respectable. Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context The old-fashioned brass knocker on the low arched door, ornamented with carved garlands of fruit and flowers, twinkled like a star; the two stone steps descending to the door were as white as if they had been covered with fair linen; and all the angles and corners, and carvings and mouldings, and quaint little panes of glass, and quainter little windows, though as old as the hills, were as pure as any snow that ever fell upon the hills. David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context More results

? References in classic literature

Old Barley might be as old as the hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in Chinks's Basin to fill it to overflowing.

Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context

His family is as old as the hills, and infinitely more respectable.

Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context

The old-fashioned brass knocker on the low arched door, ornamented with carved garlands of fruit and flowers, twinkled like a star; the two stone steps descending to the door were as white as if they had been covered with fair linen; and all the angles and corners, and carvings and mouldings, and quaint little panes of glass, and quainter little windows, though as old as the hills, were as pure as any snow that ever fell upon the hills.

David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context

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