Citations:aged

English citations of aged

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• 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.

  When I came to the foot of the hill called Difficulty, I met with a very aged man, who asked me what I was, and whither bound. I told him that I am a pilgrim, going to the Celestial City.

• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager won my reverence, while the gentle manners of the girl enticed my love.

  His blind and aged father and his gentle sister lay in a noisome dungeon while he enjoyed the free air and the society of her whom he loved.

  The colleges are ancient and picturesque; the streets are almost magnificent; and the lovely Isis, which flows beside it through meadows of exquisite verdure, is spread forth into a placid expanse of waters, which reflects its majestic assemblage of towers, and spires, and domes, embosomed among aged trees.

• 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.

  In fact, the artist's design seemed this: a final theory of my own, partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged persons with whom I conversed upon the subject.

  He looked like a man cut away from the stake, when the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them, or taking away one particle from their compacted aged robustness.

  In general, the same remark, only within a less wide limit, applies to the solitaries and hermits among the matured, aged sperm whales.