I should be accused, at the age of twenty, of instigating an awful crime!
Whether permanent or evanescent, this glorification of poetry, this ardent love of the beautiful and the ideal, is a noble and inspiring spectacle amid the turmoil and strife of this age of material progress.
His schooling began at the age of nine, but the boy played truant so frequently that he was sent to boarding-school in Avignon.
His father had married a second time at the age of fifty-five, and our poet was the only child of this second marriage.
In age she could not, certainly, have been more than twenty, but there was a certain air of good style about her and her clothes that suggested wealth and a consciousness of considerable social importance.
As a rule, the master would be seated in a comfortable easy-chair on the verandah, and each passed with a salutation suited to his age or station.
Cooper entered Yale at the early age of fourteen, and was the youngest student on the rolls.
He said that age might soften a man, but that it nearly always hardened a woman.
That was all well enough for the ageof poetry, but this is the age of prose.
They are free from passion for women, at the age when in other countries they begin to feel it; and prefer beasts, victuals, and ridiculous amours, before them.
My patient looked upon me with a kind of melancholy pleasure, and told me, he did not think it was possible for a man to live to the age I now am of, who in his thirtieth year had been tortured with that passion in its violence.
What is this age come to, that people can think to make a pimp of an astronomer?
However, that mode of infirmity is out, and theage has recovered its sight; but the blind seem to be succeeded by the lame, and a jaunty limp is the present beauty.
As I have taken upon me to censure the faults of the age and country which I live in, I should have thought myself inexcusable to have passed over this crying one, which is the subject of my present discourse.
The faulty characters must be left as they are, because we live in an age wherein vice is very general, and virtue very particular; for which reason the latter only wants explanation.
Feilding died of fever, at the age of 61, in a house in Scotland Yard.
The spirit of our age is feeble and bourgeois when compared with the independence and romantic temper of the stormy days of this Republic's birth.
You cannot persuade me that at the age of twenty-five naught remains but death--no matter what mistakes one may have made.
She was delicate and rather shrinking, and he knew that Rachael at her age must have been a marvel of mental and physical energy.
Her mental sufferings nearly deprived her of health and reason; but she lived a half a century longer, attaining the great age of ninety-seven.
Burr kept these letters until he died, at the age of 80, and left them to Matthew Davis, who destroyed those whose writers were dead, and returned the others to certain ancient and highly respected dames.
This verse was found in a little bag on Mrs. Hamilton's neck when she died at the ageof ninety-seven.
England sent no soldiers to protect her Islands, and every free male between boyhood and old age was forced by law to join the militia.
When he could not accompany her to Saratoga in summer, she sent the children with one of her sisters, and remained with him, no matter what the temperature, or the age of a baby.
She was compounded of his essences, and her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.
I Memory will mind her life: her death shall ever reign Within the mouth and mind of man, fromage to age again.
Lo, here our pomp, consumed with ourselves: What all our age with all our wars had won, Lo, here one day hath lost it all at once!
Now rest content, and work no further plagues: Let future age be free from Gorlois’ ghost: Let Britain henceforth bathe in endless weal.
Or rather rotting in this lazy age That yields me no employments: I have mischief Within my breast, more than my bulk[293] can hold: I want a midwife to deliver it.
What nations erst the former age subdu’d With hourly toils to Britain’s yoke, this day Hath set at large, and backwards turn’d the fates.
Let her reduce the goldenage again, Religion, ease, and wealth of former world.
The greatest work of the imperial age must be sought in its provincial administration.
Even among the civilized nations of the present age the recent growth of stronger national feelings has been accompanied by a preference for home-products and home-manufactures and a distaste for foreign surroundings.
It is most natural that you should feel it as you do, and at your age too; what a sweetness and support you have lost in this daughter who so lovingly looked after your health and every want of yours.
The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age.
A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.
It is of geological age of the oölite, and not of the true coal era.
His own hair, quite white, was carefully and artificially curled, and gave a Grecian cast to features whose original delicacy, and exact though small proportions, not even age could destroy.
About a year after I was of age my fortune was more than three parts spent; I fell ill with drinking and grew dull with remorse: need I add that my comrades left me to myself?
The kind damsel would not have thought two or three and thirty very young some years ago; but we grow wonderfully indulgent to the age of other people as we grow older ourselves!
As the old man ceased, there was a faint and hectic flush over his face, an enthusiasm on his features, which age made almost holy, and which Clarence had never observed there before.
The philosopher may aid or expedite a change; but never does the philosopher in any age or of any sect countenance a crime.
The former, Mr. Vavasour Mordaunt, might be about the same ageas Linden's father.
The present age is one of too much refinement for trouble of any kind; and we have long been spared the slavish toil of thinking for ourselves.
Algernon will be of age on the 25th," said Mrs. Hartland, "and this is an event of importance in my family.
The age is in want of a master-mind in the important department of hymn composition and collation for the service of the sanctuary.
Count de Montauban,” a crowd of reflections rushed to our minds such as probably our own age alone could supply.
In style the church is a revival of the early English, and, like all churches of the period, is full of mistakes, though as a specimen of that age it is perhaps a very fair example.
And in anage when but few persons could read and still fewer possessed copies of the Scriptures, there was no better way of making God’s Word known, than the frequent and public reading of the whole of it in the Church.
THAT we live in a Church-building ageis made manifest in the foregoing pages.
Pray, whom should we write for, in this age which makes its own epic upon sounding anvils, and whose lyric is yelled from the locomotive running a muck through forest and field and beside the waters no longer still?
There is no age to the angels and ideal human forms among which the artist lives, and he shares their youth until his hand trembles and his eye grows dim.
We know, that, among suicides, women and men past a certain age almost never use fire-arms.
His career was wonderful, even for the age of miraculous events he lived in.
Alcoholic drinks he never tasted, except an occasional glass of wine, to which his attention perhaps had been called on account of its age or superior excellence.
The youthful painter talks of white-bearded Leonardo as if he were a brother, and the veteran forgets that Raphael died at an age to which his own is of patriarchal antiquity.
These investigations must undoubtedly possess a deep interest for you, Sir," said Burr; "the hope of a future as well as the tradition of a past age of gold seems to have been one of the most cherished conceptions of the human breast.
It will be said, however, that, whatever the learning of Spenser may have gleaned, the law-books of thatage were impervious to the illiterature of Shakespeare.
The book, he added, had an indescribable attraction for him; and even at that almost infantile age he was familiar with its contents.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "age" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
