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Methuselah   /məθjˈuzələ/   Listen
Methuselah

noun
1.
(Old Testament) a patriarch (grandfather of Noah) who is said to have lived 969 years.
2.
A man who is very old.  Synonyms: graybeard, greybeard, old man.





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"Methuselah" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the gods and living to a great age. History is abundantly supplied with examples, from Methuselah to Old Parr, but some notable instances of longevity are less well known. A Calabrian peasant named Coloni, born in 1753, lived so long that he had what he considered a glimpse of the dawn of universal peace. Scanavius relates that he knew an archbishop who was so old that he could remember ...
— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce
... you can be very much to blame for that. I should never learn to be contented here if I lived to the age of Methuselah." ...
— Paul Prescott's Charge • Horatio Alger
... ah, madam, there was a time,—a time when even our staid blood rejoiced with a strange fervour in the summer moonlight, and it was good to be alive! Come now, have you the face to deny it,—Mrs. Methuselah?" ...
— The Cords of Vanity • James Branch Cabell et al
... see them break up for the holidays, and only got over my antediluvian feelings by seeing one of the masters still on the staff who was there when I was a boy. It was a comfort to think what a Methuselah he must be; and yet, if he will excuse the personality, he looked as rosy and smooth-faced as when he used to stand me outside his door with my coat-sleeves turned inside out. It was a way he had. Well, the presence of that particular master made ...
— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies
... fly" affectation of it. In religion too you are up against the fact that an editor, like an emperor, must not belong to a sect. Wells is on the right tack: my tack. See my prefaces to Androcles and Methuselah. We want the real Catholic Church above the manufactured one. The manufactured one is useful as the Salvation Army is useful, or the formulas of the Church of Christ Scientist; but they do not strike on the knowledge box of the modern intellectual; and it is on ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward


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