"Hoary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... their slender spray With full-blown flower and embryo leaf; Wide o'er the clasping arch of day Soars like a cloud their hoary chief. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various
... the dress and equipage of individuals, in the elegance of their dwellings, and in the magnificence and splendid ornaments of our churches, while the voice of woe is heard in every corner, proceeding from the lips of hoary age worn out with labour; from strong and healthy men capable of labour; from young infants and their shameless and abandoned parents? What reputable citizen would not blush, if among the inmates of his house should be found a miserable wretch, who by tales of real or fictitious distress ...
— ESSAYS, Political, Economical and Philosophical. Volume 1. • Benjamin Rumford
... sculptured stone The ruined arch beside, A hoary, bronzed, and wrinkled crone The twirling distaff plied,— Love with exalted Reason fraught In Plato's accents came, And Truth by Paul sublimely taught Relumed ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862 • Various
... and pretending to hide, he turned up a flat hearthstone in an old stance,[86] and went out of sight. He spread out his gold on a big stone in the sunlight, and he muttered, "Ye are mouldy, ye are hoary, ye will be better for the sun." The grandchildren came sneaking over the knoll, and when they had seen and heard all that they were intended to see and hear, they came running up with, "Grandfather, what have you got there?" "That which concerns you not; touch it not," said the grandfather; ...
— Folklore as an Historical Science • George Laurence Gomme
... baneful influence of serfage, and would certainly in the future confer inestimable benefits on the emancipated peasantry. The other group was animated by a very different spirit. They had no sympathy with national peculiarities, and no reverence for hoary antiquity. That the Commune was specifically Russian or Slavonic, and a remnant of primitive times, was in their eyes anything but a recommendation in its favour. Cosmopolitan in their tendencies, ...
— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace
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