Sentence examples for marks of old from inspiring English sources

Along the hallway you can see the heavy dark beams that were part of the original construction, pitted with the marks of old chisels and embedded with seemingly ancient iron nails.

Most skeletons we excavate have clear marks of old wounds.

The inked "sleeve" will be as identifiable a mark of old age as the walking stick is now.

Although it infuriated Deutsche Telekom's bosses and shareholders, Deutsche Bank's bumper share sale was more a sign of its ambitions as a global investment bank, rather than a mark of old-style German relationship banking.

Alfred the Great gradually shifted the settlement into the old Roman town of Londinium from around 886 AD onwards, leaving no mark of the old town, and the site returned to fields.

During the strike many consumers have borne the inconvenience of using a phone book, the mark of an old economy if ever there was one.

And his "Soft Toilet" sculpture, for which there is a drawing or two here, has been seriously hailed as bearing the mark of the old masters.

Years later, Whistler's former student Walter Sickert criticized the painting as "the low-water mark of the old manner, before the birth of the new".

If one must arbitrarily select an age to mark the beginning of old age, 50 is appropriate.

Today, the fortifications mark the boundaries of Old Quebec, a treasury of historic architecture, fine restaurants and tiny museums.

Like the lilac, it is a survivor, often marking the site of old homesteads that have almost disappeared.