SCOTT said that if anything could reconcile him to old age, it was the reflection that he had seen the rising as well as the setting sun of Mrs. Siddons.
The performers are in a particular manner entitled to the support or regard, when in old age or distress, of those who have partaken of the amusements of those places which they render an ornament to society.
Yet while they are toiling for ephemeral theatric fame, how very few ever possess the means of hoarding in their youth that which would give bread in old age!
She had served my old master faithfully from youth to old age.
Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.
And, with a tightening at the heart Mildred saw, deep in the depths of her eyes, the look of old age.
For days thereafter he was from time to time seized with violent spasms of trembling; years afterward he was attributing premature weaknesses of old age to the effects of that moment of horror.
In old age, when the arteries harden and the blood flows slow and cold, we become indifferent.
Whether Calvin died of old age, or was carried off by one of the diseases incident to youth, it is impossible to say; for his departure was as quiet as his advent was mysterious.
The patch I scratched over for the turnips, and left as clean as earth, is already full of ambitious "pusley," which grows with all the confidence of youth and the skill of old age.
What should I do if I were deserted in my old age?
Thus have I lived till the grey hairs of my old age; yet I can think of no serious fault committed.
Francois was envious through the whole of his life; yet he combined this feeling of envy with friendship; I never could understand him; but this vice of his, like my own vices, must by this time have died of old age.
Wretch, you should have commanded some other and baser army, and not been ruler over us to whom Jove has allotted a life of hard fighting from youth to old age, till we every one of us perish.
Let me beseech this cruel and terrible man, if maybe he will respect the feeling of his fellow-men, and have compassion on my old age.
Both no doubt in the great trouble of youth; which sometimes, as he knew too well, lasted on almost to old age.
To begin with, her faculty to suffer was slightly dulled by old age, especially since this last winter.
Her eyes, which formerly were brown, had taken a faded look, and almost appeared blue; they seemed no longer to see, and were troubled and uncertain with old age.
It will be such an amusing adventure, a souvenir for my old age--and may my old age forget me.
The women were young, the men were young; old age stood at one side and looked on.
As for me, when the time comes I shall return to Dresden and die of old age.
I am an old man, and frankness in old age is pardonable.
Besides this, I was now far down in the vale of years, and could not expect to be long without feeling some of the penalties of old age, although I was still a hail and sound man.
Old age, he had heard, has known griefs, and learned pity.
The plausible doctor had now Squire Tollett's ear, and Tollett was old, and something about him reminded the Oxonian of a trait his friend Horace had detected in old age: "Vel quod res omnes timide gelide que ministrat.
I must try and turn them to profit; for I'm out of place now in my old age.
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