What you quote, however, about your own frame of mind is obviously a back-number…. ❋ William Kalush (2006)
So I went further, pointing out that the Yenbo-Medina sector also became a back-number; and advised the transfer to Akaba of the stores, money, and officers now devoted to Ali and Abdulla. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)
Two or three years since, to quote him was, in the opinion of a _Standard_ reviewer, to write yourself down a back-number, as they say. ❋ Ethel Colburn Mayne (N/A)
Revolutions in the various sciences have been going on so rapidly, they fancy that a theory that was formulated forty years ago must be a back-number, and so they hasten to declare their allegiance to the last new cloud of sophistry, purporting to be a theory of value, that has been evolved by the feeble minds of the anarchists of Italy or the capitalist economists of Austria. ❋ Robert Rives La Monte (N/A)
He smiled wanly and asked for his mail, which consisted only of a pile of back-number copies of a newspaper. ❋ Edith Eudora Kohl (N/A)
After the last game you may be carried off on the shoulders of enthusiastic admirers and dined and wined by hosts of friends; but across the field there is a grim faced coach who may already be scheming out a play for next year which will snatch you back from the "Hall of Fame" and make your friends describe you sadly as a "back-number." ❋ William Hanford Edwards (N/A)
They'd come up and try warming their hands over my head, an 'all those back-number jokes. ❋ Amy Bell Marlowe (N/A)
For the man who lay in front of me, stone dead in water-soaked clothes that were frozen to his stark body, was Thompson, our old superintendent, who only six weeks ago had left the La Chance mine; whose letter to Dudley, with its careful, back-number copperplate address, lay in my pocket now. ❋ Susan Morrow Jones (N/A)
It was written in Thompson's careful, back-number copperplate, perhaps not so careful as usual, but his unmistakably. ❋ Susan Morrow Jones (N/A)
There were three for Marcia, and one -- in old Thompson's back-number copperplate -- for Dudley. ❋ Susan Morrow Jones (N/A)
You're a back-number, my dear, that's what you are. ❋ Unknown (1938)
I've sometimes thought I had a little talent that way myself, and I know darn well that one reason why a fourflushing old back-number like Chan Mott can get away with it in real estate is just because he can make a good talk, even when he hasn't got a doggone thing to say! ❋ Unknown (1922)
Ive sometimes thought I had a little talent that way myself, and I know darn well that one reason why a fourflushing old back-number like Chan Mott can get away with it in real estate is just because he can make a good talk, even when he hasnt got a doggone thing to say! ❋ Unknown (1922)
I cannot bear to hear Emerson spoken of as a back-number, and I should like to believe that the young men of to-day find in him what I found in him fifty years ago, when he seemed to whet my appetite for high ideals by referring to that hunger that could “eat the solar system like gingercake.” ❋ Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 (1914)
Those men haven't got any use for a back-number old place like this. ❋ Unknown (1910)
We bought an old bedtick and stuffed it with corn husks, then a pair of back-number bed-springs, which we put on the floor of the cabin. ❋ Unknown (1909)
At that, though, I expect my head would have been just a junk-heap of back-number facts if I hadn't run across the name of this guy McClave in some of the correspondence. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)
No scoutin 'around for back-number restaurants, as I'd planned at first. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)
