of the old school

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of the old school

if someone is of the old school, they have traditional ideas about how to do something and they do not accept new ways of doing it She was a teacher of the old school and believed in strict discipline.

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To the last Lavalle was a Catholic of the old school, accepting--he who had looked into the very heart of the lightnings--the dogmas of papal infallibility, of absolution, of confession--of relics great and small. Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard View in context "The Prince," she said, "is an intriguer of the old school. The Yellow Crayon by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context The notable wife of Kamehameha, the renowned conqueror and king of the Sandwich Islands, used to pride herself in the skill she displayed in dyeing her tappa with contrasting colours disposed in regular figures; and, in the midst of the innovations of the times, was regarded, towards the decline of her life, as a lady of the old school, clinging as she did to the national cloth, in preference to the frippery of the European calicoes. Typee by Melville, Herman View in context More results

? References in classic literature

To the last Lavalle was a Catholic of the old school, accepting--he who had looked into the very heart of the lightnings--the dogmas of papal infallibility, of absolution, of confession--of relics great and small.

Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard View in context

"The Prince," she said, "is an intriguer of the old school.

The Yellow Crayon by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context

The notable wife of Kamehameha, the renowned conqueror and king of the Sandwich Islands, used to pride herself in the skill she displayed in dyeing her tappa with contrasting colours disposed in regular figures; and, in the midst of the innovations of the times, was regarded, towards the decline of her life, as a lady of the old school, clinging as she did to the national cloth, in preference to the frippery of the European calicoes.

Typee by Melville, Herman View in context

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