Age, Old
Age, Old
Alberich 500years 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]
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.