"White-haired" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Not observing this, he found the work interesting, but "thought the author repeated a little." He read across the page a book printed in two columns, remarking that "it seemed to be very good, but a trifle abstract." One day a visitor inquired for the white-haired old gentleman who was in the habit of sitting at the head of the table. "That was my husband," replied Mme. Geoffrin; "he ...
— The Women of the French Salons • Amelia Gere Mason
... behind. He had always been, regarded as the most elegant gentleman in his territory, and it was conceded by all that no man thereabouts was anywhere near his equal in the telling of an obscene story except the venerable white-haired governor himself. The Hon. Higgins had not come to serve his country in Washington for nothing. The appropriation which he had engineered through Congress for the maintenance, of the Indians in his ...
— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
... dagger from her robe and sprang up, but the head eunuch, an old, white-haired man, bowed low before ...
— Morning Star • H. Rider Haggard
... them as the preacher went on; good to feel that these hearts were losing their loads, these minds their anxieties. "Not a great discourse," the critic would have said. Perhaps not—from some standpoints. Having reached the end of fifty years of preaching, this white-haired patriarch had long given up the idea of great discourses. To him the Master had said, "Comfort ye, comfort ye My people," and he had walked long, long miles up the mountain side to do it. Pace the critic! ...
— The Message and the Man: - Some Essentials of Effective Preaching • J. Dodd Jackson
... spring; and, passing through the space that disclosed itself, the whole party followed, and found themselves in a small, gloomy room. On one side of it was a couch, on which sat Redclyffe; face to face with him was a white-haired figure in ...
— Doctor Grimshawe's Secret - A Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne
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