"Ageing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you about my flight. I ought to have gone straight up the arroyo.... Yet I could hardly have made it.... I did not see him again, the doctor. My last glimpse ... the old man—I remember now how the grey had spread through his beard—he was growing old—it had been ageing labour. He stood there at his laboratory door and the ...
— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams
... I lingered upon this writing, and having completed it I was moved to print it, in order that it might remind some other son of his duty to his ageing parents sitting in the light of their lonely hearth, and in doing this I again vaguely forecast the composition of an autobiographic manuscript—one which should embody minutely and simply the homely daily toil of my father's family, although I could not, at the moment, define the precise form into ...
— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
... Standing at Valhalla's portal, In her casket has rich store Of rare apples gilded o'er; Those rare apples, not of Earth, Ageing AEsir ...
— Myths of the Norsemen - From the Eddas and Sagas • H. A. Guerber
... An ageing moon arose, and Rodriguez touched Morano and rose up; and the two went slowly on, tired though they were. Picture the two tiny figures, bent, shivering and weary, walking with clumsy sticks cut in the wood, amongst the scorn ...
— Don Rodriguez - Chronicles of Shadow Valley • Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, Dunsany |
