" 'How long is it since that old fogy came here?' inquired Maxime, thinking that he saw danger in the spectacles.英文原著 · 《A Man of Business》
THE old fogy continues his questions. Why, when women or old men enter the room, does every well-bred person not only offer them a seat, but give them up his own?英文原著 · 《Reminiscences of Tolstoy》
Unfortunately, the suffragists did not know, when they advanced this argument, that it would be overthrown by the endorsement of Bok's point of view by such men and women of years and ripe judgment as Doctor Eliot, then president of Harvard University, former President Cleveland, Lyman Abbott, Margaret Deland, and others. When articles by these opponents to suffrage appeared, the argument of youth hardly held good; and the attacks of the suffragists were quickly shifted to the ground of "narrow-mindedness and old-fashioned fogyism."英文原著 · 《The Americanization of Edward Bok》
I am astounded at your news received this morning. I am become such an old fogy that I am amazed at your spirit. For God's sake do not go and get your throat cut. Bless my soul, I think you must be a little insane. I must confess it will be a most interesting tour; and, if you get to the top of Lebanon, I suppose extremely interesting--you ought to collect any beetles under stones there; but the Entomologists are such slow coaches. I dare say no result could be made out of them. [They] have never worked the Alpines of Britain.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-2》
"Would you have thought the old fogy capable of acting like this?" asked M. de Saintot.英文原著 · 《Two Poets》
"It is losing time to reason with that old fogy who sees in the events of the day only so many opportunities for quotations."英文原著 · 《Within an Inch of His Life》