Were there any hopes to outlive vice, or a point to be superannuated from sin, it were worthy our knees to implore the days of Methuselah.
And therefore, restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto the present considerations seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly.
Some corn and potatoes are also raised by the women and the old and superannuated men of the band.
It was a boon to superannuated officers, and the number was limited.
We should entirely do away with retaliation, a barbarous relic of a more or less animal sentiment of our ancestors, and expiation, the relic of a superannuated and superstitious mysticism.
We have already sufficiently dealt with the superannuated prejudices and customs to be contended with in the sexual domain, and need not return to them.
They demonstrate that only a five per cent profit will be needed, to meet all future demands against the insurance fund, even when the colony has its maximum number of children and superannuated co-operators.
Let us consider what they might do for our superannuated farmers.
Wetzlar, not far from Frankfort, and had become as slow and superannuated as the Diet.
There was this superannuated trainer whom you spoke of just now, Mr. Mellish," he said.
He would further suggest that their labour should be placed under the control and regulation of the state, who should set apart from the profits, a fund for the support of superannuated or disabled fleas, their widows and orphans.
He was a superannuated chief, a relative of the wife of the hospitable trapper, and generally made his home there.
All the bucks were absent on a hunting expedition, excepting Satank and a few superannuated warriors.
The meet was rather far next day, but she insisted on riding to it, since old Pettance, the superannuated jockey, charitably employed as extra stable help at Mildenham, was to bring on her second horse.
At Chamouni they had the good fortune to meet with Joseph Coutet, a superannuated guide, whom they engaged to accompany the eager but inexperienced mountaineer.
He could not now go in for honours, for the lost year had superannuated him.
He had now been a traveling preacher for twenty-eight years, and, as he felt himself sorely in need of rest, he asked and obtained a superannuated relation for one year.
The spirit of the backwoods preacher at once took fire, and, declaring that so important a field ought not to be neglected, he expressed his willingness to relinquish his superannuated relation and accept the charge.
I would be much happier waited on by the superannuated sergeant, and my wife tells me she could very well spare him.
The ladies garde- robe is superintended by a superannuated sergeant of artillery.
Bunce had entirely accepted the story he told about himself to the effect that he had once been "in an office in the city," and looked upon him as a superannuated bank clerk, too old to be kept on in his former line of business.
Vidou, a superannuated widow of ninety, who was guillotined in company with her son, an amiable and respectable man, and was unconscious of her fate till the last.
I retain, however, a sufficiently clear impression of the little superannuated temple, with its four apses and its perceptible odour of antiquity--the odour of the eleventh century.
And in relation to the inn I suppose I had better mention that I am well aware of the inconsistency of a person who dislikes the modern caravansary and yet grumbles when he finds a hotel of the superannuated sort.
Those completely laid off were nine superannuated ranging from seventy to eighty-five years old, three invalids, and three women relieved of work as by law required for having reared six children each.
All slaves were to be adequately clothed and fed, under penalty of confiscation, and the superannuated were to be maintained on the same basis as the able-bodied.
Randall dying in 1801, bequeathed the farm for the founding of an asylum for superannuated sailors, together with the mansion house in which he had lived.
This species of book, and the method which dictates it, appears to us quite antiquated with the flavour of bygone years; more remote and more superannuated than the most truculent follies of romanticism.
Promotions were exceedingly slow, so that it was not until officers were nearlysuperannuated that they attained to that rank.
On the 4th of June his majesty appointed seven superannuated or disabled lieutenants of the navy to be poor knights of Windsor.
Then unlock the ivory tower, abolish the tyrannies of superannuated superstitions, and give the people vision, without which they perish.
