46 Metaphors for olds

So far as the Upper Eocene and the Miocene Mammalian Faunae are comparable, their relations are such as in no way to oppose the hypothesis that the older are the progenitors of the more recent forms, while, in some cases, they distinctly favour that hypothesis.

The new National Agreement is an improvement upon the old and the old was a long, long step in advance of anything which had preceded it.

The oldest, the most persistent, the most attractive, the most satisfying expression of the joy of life is the dance.

Old are the stars, and yet they still endure, Old are the flowers, yet never fail the spring: Why is the song that is so old so new, Known and yet strange each sweet small shape and hue? How may a poet thus for ever sing, Thus build his climbing music sweet and sure, As builds in stars and flowers the Eternal mind?

The older of the two was a man of magnificent physique, almost six feet four, and built in proportion, while the younger was barely five feet and weighed not more than ninety pounds.

The oldest of these tales current in the middle ages is the epic of Reineke Fuchs, or Reynard the Fox.

"What is it you want me to do?" "Two slaves belonging to Mr. Bruteman of New Orleans, formerly a friend of your father, have escaped in my ship, 'The King Cotton,' The oldest, it seems, is a head carpenter, and would bring a high price, Bruteman values them at twenty-five hundred dollars.

It had been held that the oldest of the documents which had been distinguished was a narrative which begins in Genesis, Chapter I, but there was the difficulty that this narrative seemed to be closely associated with the legislation of Leviticus which could be proved to belong to the fifth century.

Old are the stars, and yet they still endure, Old are the flowers, yet never fail the spring: Why is the song that is so old so new, Known and yet strange each sweet small shape and hue? How may a poet thus for ever sing, Thus build his climbing music sweet and sure, As builds in stars and flowers the Eternal mind?

It was in 1389, when Mircea the Old was Prince of Wallachia, that the united Balkan nations attempted for the first time to check Ottoman invasion.

This infant was the youngest of five children, the oldest of the five was seven years of age.

It could easily be entered under "Inspection of Public Bridges," or any old thingthat was a mere detail.

But the oldest of those who suffered on the 10 Thermidor was Couthon, who was thirty-eight, Robespierre was thirty-five, and Saint-Just but twenty-seven.

The older was a woman, really.

The oldest looked the poorest, and naturally so; amid the tramp of multiplying feet, their steps had begun to lag when speed was more than ever necessary; they saw newcomers outstrip them, and trudged under an increasing load.

There are three runic alphabets (much alike), the oldest being the Gothic of 24 letters or runes.

The oldest of her children was only nineteen when Angelina was born.

It remains without compare, the oldest and the greatest school in England, whose daughter is Eton and whose late descendant is Harrow.

He embodied his anger in the following epigram: "Firm and erect the Caledonian stood, Old was his mutton, and his claret good; 'Let him drink port,' an English statesman cried He drank the poison, and his spirit died.

" "Gramaw's an old" "Is it any wonder

Mr. Filley secured Government land in the oak openings, and settled there with his wife and two or three children, the oldest of which was a boy named Willie.

My old master had two brothers: the oldest, Thomas Helm, was a Captain in the United States Army, and had been in many hard-fought battles.

As the pair faced the king there was sufficient resemblance between the three faces to show that they were of one blood, and to enable a stranger to guess that the older was Monsieur, the younger brother of the king, while the other was Louis the Dauphin, his only legitimate child, and heir to a throne to which in the strange workings of Providence neither he nor his sons were destined to ascend.

The oldest is fifty-seven; the next, fifty; and the youngest, forty-eight.

The two oldest was girls.

46 Metaphors for  olds