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Age, Old
Alberich 500 years old, but still child-sized. [Ger. Legend: Walsh Classical, 13] old clerk. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit] was granted long life by Apollo; when she rejected his love, he withheld eternal youth and she withered away. [Gk. Myth.: Metamorphoses, 14] happily settled elderly couple. [Br. Ballad: Brewer Dictionary, 300] personification of Old Age, he out-wrestled Thor. [Norse Myth.: Edith Hamilton Mythology] portrayed with flowing white beard. [Art: Hall, 118] personification of the old year. [Folklore: Misc.] leading brand of tonic for geriatric health. [Trade marks: Crowley Trade, 230]
vigorous old woman dies at 96, scorning the degeneracy around her. [Am. Poetry: Masters Spoon River Anthology] oldest man mentioned in Bible. [O.T.: Genesis 5:27] husbandman; lived through reigns of ten sovereigns. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 805] fabled aged couple. [Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses] grow old, I grow old.” [Br. Lit.: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in Hart, 497] Browning’s poem about old age. [Br. Poetry: Benét, 836] obliged children to maintain their needy parents in old age. [Rom. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 862] Charles Lamb’s essay on his growing infirmities and subsequent retirement. [Br. Lit.: Lamb, Charles in Benét, 563] granted immortality but not eternal youth; continually got older. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz] Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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