older-world

Updated: May 21, 2025

But in the hands of a man whom, from the top of their wealth, they regarded as but a poor farmer, they forgot all about it along with a few other more important and older-world matters; for where Mammon gets in his foot, he will soon be lord of the house, and turn not merely Rank, his rival demon, out of doors, but God himself.

George MacDonald - What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1

This was a man, as Juanita had observed, not to say things, but to do them. It was not difficult for him to find out during the next few weeks that Juanita had been sent to Pampeluna, whither also Sor Teresa had been commanded to go. Saragossa has a playful way of sacking religious houses, which the older-world city of Navarre would never permit.

Henry Seton Merriman - The Velvet Glove

But in the hands of a man whom, from the top of their wealth, they regarded as but a poor farmer, they forgot all about it along with a few other more important and older-world matters; for where Mammon gets in his foot, he will soon be lord of the house, and turn not merely Rank, his rival demon, out of doors, but God himself.

George MacDonald - What's Mine's Mine — Complete