It was when the nineteenth century was still a hearty octogenarian that Frederick R. Woods caused Selwoode to be builded.

A half-lunatic octogenarian could gain nothing by being restored to rights and possessions which he had most justly forfeited.

"Two skittish octogenarians, one gloomy baby, one gloomier nursemaid, and three dogs in the last five minutes.

At the end of that long minute, the signal sounded, and, in an instant, there was a scene in the ring that would have made the soberest octogenarian shake his sides with the laughter of his youth.