Sentence examples for branch of the old from inspiring English sources
It is all very British, all very cosy – resistance from this branch of the old Establishment is rare.
It was a branch of the old Boston & Maine Railroad then, with dark, grimy cars and immensely tall, heavy seats covered in green patent leather.
Mabuchi was born into a branch of the old Shintō Kamo family, who served as priests of the famous Kamo shrine near Kyōto.
To aficionados it is the holy grail of steam.The mine, which opened in 1970, is on a branch of the old railway line between Lanzhou and Urumqi (in the desert the bullet-train line runs roughly parallel to the old track, which like the mine is a legacy of the Mao era).
In the states of Guerrero and Michoacán, masked men calling themselves community police were waging war with various gangs, including the Knights Templar, a reconstituted branch of the old La Familia cartel (known for rolling severed heads into a bar a few years ago).
Tiny (garnering only 2.6% of the vote in the last election), troublesome, notorious, an oddity among the political parties of Europe, the present-day Italian Radical Party grew out of a leftist branch of the old establishment Liberal Party following the shift of the latter to the right, in the mid-'50s.
A woodcock, probing muddy grass, rockets through branches of the old boundary ash tree and off into the murk without a sound.
It also makes you pause and see the streaks of gold and cream in the pine, the bright red stransvaesia berries, the curving branches of the old oak leaning over the water.
Maybe it's from growing up in the south, but there are points in the winter, for instance, when I swear that I can feel the iron-hard, frozen branches of the old oaks in my bones.
If you duck into one allée, where park benches sit beneath the craggy trunks, you enter a mystical world, where the jagged branches of the old trees appear to dance, as if inhabited by joyful spirits.
According to legend, when a cock crowed beneath the branches of the old oak upon the knoll, a member of Clan MacAulay was about to die.
