An anachronism, someone not real but out of an old novel in an earlier age.

And that he had read many other old novels as well, for he liked escaping into times gone by.

He had always thought of it as a superficial and outmoded gesture found only in old novels.

Hark, someone might have said in an old novel.

Roy read a couple of old novels stored in the computer.

The word, out of some forgotten old novel, surprised him.

That's why old novels are so much longer than modern novels.

He makes the books by reusing old novels and other publications which are in the public domain due to their age.

I knew that the new novel should not emulate the old novel on which it was based.

After my short sleep and jarring lunch of coffee, it gave me a turn, as old novels used to say.