"Of age" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... side. The best blood and the best form should be diligently sought. Breeding from young dogs on either side should, generally speaking, be avoided. With regard to older dogs, whether male or female, there may be less care. Many greyhounds, both male and female, eight, nine, and ten years of age, have been the progenitors of dogs possessing every stanch and ...
— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt
... it and examined it curiously. It was a fine museum piece in an excellent state of preservation, the metal overlaid with the patina of age, but ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 • Various
... of Pharaoh to all his servants, when he lifted up one and hanged another, and the birthday feast of Solomon which marked his entrance upon a new life of duty, opportunity, and promise, and which he kept like a young heir coming of age. ...
— Tired Church Members • Anne Warner
... illustrious public life? From the time of his first appointment by Washington to his last election by the people of his native town, where could death have found him but at the post of duty? At that post, in the fullness of age in the ripeness of renown, crowned with honors, surrounded by his family, his friends, and admirers, and in the very presence of the national representation, he has been gathered to his fathers, leaving behind him the memory of public ...
— Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams - Sixth President of the Unied States • William H. Seward
... town in Thrace; and in this secluded spot, removed from the shifting scenes of Grecian life, he devoted himself to the composition of his great work. Tradition asserts that he was assassinated when about eighty years of age, either at Athens ...
— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson
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