34866 examples of ageing in sentences

My last glimpse ... the old manI remember now how the grey had spread through his beardhe was growing oldit had been ageing labour.

Now Jean is ageing; Jean is old.

Yet, from personal observation, one would never believe that the EX-LORD CHANCELLOR was ageing so rapidly.

And, still a child in heart and soul, she saw herself ageing, and then aged, and then withered.

She was an ageing dancing-mistress.

Yet neither the ageing and worn woman nor the flaccid girl felt the difference between them in age.

The ageing lady seemed to kiss her on behalf of the entire friendly family; all the others, appreciating the delicacy of the situation, refrained from the peril of clumsy speech.

And Hilda, under the ageing lady's grieved glance, tried to quench the exultation on her face, somewhat like a child trapped.

The contact with that desiccated skin intensified to an extraordinary degree Hilda's emotional sympathy for the ageing woman.

And by that single phrase, with its implications, she laid unconsciously bare the sordid baseness of her ageing heart; she exposed by her mere intonation of the word 'sheets' all the foulness of jealousy and thwarted salacity that was usually concealed beneath her tight dress and neat apron, and beneath her prim gestures and deferential tones.

Hilda's assumption that the ageing woman had telegraphed for her on inadequate grounds had proved to be quite wrong.

His ageing face (for he was the third man of fifty in that room) had an anxious look.

Like every ageing artist of genuine accomplishment, he knewnone betterthat there is no satisfaction save the satisfaction of fatigue after honest endeavour.

Not that she ever confessed to any weakness or ageing herself; ho!

For the present the necessity of earning money for the support of his young family and for the assistance of his ageing father and mother drove him continually forth to new fields, and on May 23, 1821, which must have been only a few weeks after his return from the South, he writes to his wife from Pittsfield, Massachusetts:

I'm the ageing influence.

That, in itself, is an ageing experience.

We passed by a village or two, tucked into folds in the hills and polluting the blue sky with a smell of ageing dung, but nothing seemed disposed to happen.

"Yet let me see Him, let me see him!"Klopstock, The Messiah, xiii. ABBERVILLE (Lord), a young nobleman, 23 years of age, who has for travelling tutor a Welshman of 65, called Dr. Druid, an antiquary, wholly ignorant of his real duties as a guide of youth.

All in that city was of ancient device; the carving on the houses, which, when age had broken it remained unrepaired, was of the remotest times, and everywhere were represented in stone beasts that have long since passed away from Earththe dragon, the griffin, and the hippogriffin, and the different species of gargoyle.

Consider, for example, all the unexpected aesthetic values, the inspiration and variety of emotional result which arises out of the cross-shaped plan of the Gothic cathedral, and the undesigned delight and wonder of white marble that has ensued, as I have been told, through the ageing and whitening of the realistically coloured statuary of the Greeks and Romans.

And time, too!when you've seen as many queer places as I have in my day, young fellow, you'll know that peace and quiet is meat and drink to an ageing man.

There would be something beyond mere practical wisdom in such law-giving, an exquisite sense of the pathos of human life and its requirements; scapulars, indulgences and sacraments are needed by the weak and the ageing, sacraments especially.

His colleague, Sir Frederick Whitaker, was ageing palpably.

I am ageing now I know; That was many years ago, Yet

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