Meanings of old commonwealth in English

I should have said so, for it's a grand old commonwealth.

Enemies might well declare that neglect of her mighty dead is characteristic of the old commonwealth.

The poor old commonwealth is in a bad way, and it needs just such boys as you two are.

Debating-society fame and drawing-room popularity do not, in an old commonwealth like Virginia, bring practice to a lawyer of twenty.

How strange, that in 1790, of the ten American post-offices yielding more than a thousand dollars annually, that stately old commonwealth held five!

Thus, in a fortnight after my flight from Maryland, I was safe in New Bedford, a citizen of the grand old commonwealth of Massachusetts.

That this new government of the senate amidst all its retention of existing forms involved a complete revolutionizing of the old commonwealth, is clear.

She said, in substance, that every part of Virginia was beautiful, and that she did not wish to survive the disgrace of the old commonwealth.

Bless my life, the old Commonwealth deserves a brownstone front-nowdon't she?

But the spirit of the old Commonwealth's man remained steadfast.

Blot out the escutcheon of the brave old Commonwealth!

What Fletcher of Saltoun is to Scotland, and the brave spirits of the old Commonwealth time-

Our old Commonwealth has been first and foremost in many good works; let her lead in this also.

Whether that would mean a tougher approach to New Zealanders (and other old Commonwealth countries) is debatable.

Or this description-notvery flattering to the " Old Commonwealth"-ofthe treatment of the agent of Massachusetts in South Carolina:-

Of all the happy groups that were assembled in our old Commonwealth that night, few we think were happier than this.