I knowed him to onc't, for all he was a little oldish, and a little grayish, and had a bare spot like a turtle's back on the top of his head.

Her features are oldish and flabby; from their midst springs a nose like the beak of a parrot.

Mr. Poole being gone, there came in his place as curate an oldish man, grey-haired and meagre; a great adorer of Archbishop Laud and of King Charles the First, 'the Royal Martyr,' as he would say; but for all his half Popish notions, he was blameless, nay, austere in his life; and he had thriven so ill in the gay new world of London, that he deemed it great good luck to have the curate's place at West Fazeby.

Then, as an oldish-looking soldier, with a heavy moustache already tinged with grey, came up to him, Teddy turned to him in delight.

He was an oldish man over sixty, dressed in mourning, and careworn.

As she sat in the cart and drove toward the old homestead she fancied that she was growing younger and younger every minute, and that soon she would no longer be an oldish person with hair that was turning gray, but a little girl in short skirts with a long flaxen braid.

And they seem to have a lot of these rather dull, oldish men friends who make long visits.

He is an oldish man, as I was saying, yet he not only works eighteen hours every day at his forge, but every Friday in the year he works all night long, and never lays off his clothes till late of Saturday night.

Many of them still reaped with scythes and thrashed on the barn floor with old-fashioned flails, and one afternoon there was a curious plaintive singing under my windowa party of harvesters, oldish men and brown, barefooted peasant girls, who had finished their work on a neighboring farm, and were crossing our village on their way to their own.

He must have been middle-aged when he died, so probably this woman's old or oldish.

And as for clubs and things, why, I've got some oldish ones that will do fairly well; a beginner doesn't need extra good ones, you see.

You had nearly made the oldish lady believe the good ship 'Royal Caroline' was the flying Dutchman!"

your officers: True, you must have officers on board; though, I suppose, they are a little oldish to be agreeable to you.

How sophomoric and seventeen-year-oldish they sound!

He is an oldish man, with a long, gray beard and a quizzical face,a sort of Hans Sachs, who turns all his life into verse and song.

I expected to find an oldish man, but he seemed about my own age, and on the whole I didn't dislike the look of him,a rather handsome young fellow, fairly well dressed, with a taking sort of smile.

They must wait for a year and a half; Mary could not leave her father quite alone, but in a year and a half Mr. Bowes, who was an oldish man, would be able to retire on the modest fruit of his economies, and all three could live together in London.

An oldish woman with a huddled figurehow unlike grandmamma!looking about the class of a housekeeper; a girl of my age, with red hair and white eye-lashes and a buff hat on; and a young man, dark, thick, common-looking.

Then there is a young oldish girl, richly dressed; "I hear her people have a nice house in a hunting country, I will dance with her, and take the mother into supper, and, if I can get a moment, will have a pleasant talk with the father in the evening.

Sometimes we thought that he was an oldish man that looked young, and at others that he was a youngish man who looked old.

This morning they saw an oldish black man step off, doff his hat delightedly to two young men waiting at the platform's edge, pass them a ticket, and move across to a pair of saddled horses.

Oldish man, grey whiskers, mouth like a trap.

The guarding of the prisoners is effected by plenty of barbed wire and a comparatively small number of oldish Landsturmers.

The average Britisher in confinement in Germany is under the care of an oldish guard, such as Heiny of the Landsturm, but the immediate authority is often a man of the notorious Unteroffizier type, whose cruelty to the German private is well known, and whose treatment of the most hated enemy can be imagined.

He said nothing more, and I followed himan oldish man with gray eyes and hair and side-whiskers, and neatly dressed, his head covered to the ears with a high hat, tilted backward.