The phrase "a certain old" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a specific old person or thing, but the construction is awkward and unclear.
Example: "There was a certain old man who lived in the village."
Alternatives: "an elderly" or "a particular old".
He stood for standards and a certain old way of doing things, and he brought a lot of authority into the room.
But this converted house -- with its chair rails, wainscoting, exposed beams, creaky wood floors, threadbare linens and shabby carpeting -- does convey a certain Old World atmosphere.
The two also have an understanding about when a certain old man can put on a hat of bells and walk around his father's Christmas fantasy: any time he wants.
She stood before a tatty display tracing the source of Gabrovian wit to a certain Old Minyo, a 19th-century local of fabled abstemiousness who was said to have carried his shoes on long walks, so as to spare their soles, and who sat in the dark to save candle wax.
All of Juliet's enjoyable experience of men had been in fantasy: one or two movie stars; the lovely tenor — not the virile heartless hero — on a certain old recording of "Don Giovanni Henry V V, as she'd read about him in Shakespeare and as Laurence Olivier had played him in the movie.
Rogers, JD'48, who flew with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and spent 21 years as a Cook County Juvenile Court judge, dies at 95. Sam Kass, AB'04, the White House senior policy adviser on nutrition, and his fiancee, MSNBC's Alex Wagner, have a "low-key, hypermodern cachet". A social media analysis suggests UChicago should be the place where a certain old saying goes to die.
It's not exactly romantic, but there is a certain old-world charm to it.
He was of a certain old-fashioned type — lanky, large-nosed, with an out-sized Adam's apple.
Templeton, the Guest estate, is dedicated to a certain old-money-by-way-of-England world that has always been captivating to the less well born.
In a house where cinematic realism rules, David Hockney's spare sets and his use of stylized painted flats has a certain old-fashioned charm.
The necessary intimacy -- it's a three-person play, including an actor-pianist -- remained, joined to a certain old-time Broadway glamour that felt right.
