The same feelings no doubt oppressed the soul of the octogenarian prelate when he saw the walls cracked and blackened, the heaps of ruins, sole remnants of his beloved house.
No one believed that the octogenarian composer would find anything fresh to say or any fresh way of saying it.
They might serve both to instruct and edify my grandson," the octogenarian continued, with a hearty laugh, in which Zerbinette joined.
Everything in the room remains just as it was left by the fast failing hands of the octogenarian engineer.
Such was the philosophy of an almost Octogenarian smoker.
Probably the vivacity of the French and the superstition of the Scotch may somewhat characterize me,--which it is to be hop'd the experience of an octogenarian may suitably modify.
A strange mistake has prevailed as to the supposed churlishness and cynical severity of Thoreau, which Mr. Alcott, in one of his octogenarian sonnets, has corrected, and which all who knew the man would protest against.
For in truth, for an octogenarian Servus servorum, such a day's work must have been harder than that of most of his masters.
Cupid had played one of his pranks with the octogenarian Don Juan, and Regina was engaged at a salary of 400 ducats, beside special allowances for her outfit.
Absurd octogenarian love-affairs completed the ruin of his dotage.
As regards literature, the generation of that day luxuriated in an idolisation of the octogenarian Goethe, which accepted everything that the aged master wrote or said as wisdom, and beauty, and inspired poetry.
Almost simultaneously with Karl Gutzkow's political awakening, there occurred a memorable misunderstanding in the study of the octogenarian Goethe.
Shortly after, another octogenarian of 84, in addition to claiming the healthy condition of the previous writer, spoke of intending matrimony.
An octogenarianof 83 wrote to say that his eyesight, hearing, and teeth were all sound, and that he had not tasted spirituous liquors in his life.
The Wagner family are not shocked when Wagner's music is caricatured by an octogenarian tenor or a twenty-stone prima donna; they are shocked when in very hot weather a few people wear the costume in which they suffer least discomfort.
The Dusk of the Gods" was marred by Burgstaller, and "The Valkyrie" by the two apparently octogenarian lovers.
If so, then is the Baron to the Octogenarian Etonian and his intimates as was Mr. Pickwick to "P.
Having thus taken two equal periods of 1082 years, our Octogenarian proceeds to break them up (Heaven knows why!
Marius on that barricade after the octogenarian was the vision of the young revolution after the apparition of the old.
