"age" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The way he said it made eleven years seem like hoary old age.
- The credo of this revolution is neuroplasticity - the discovery that the human brain is as malleable as a lump of wet clay not only in infancy, as scientists have long known, but well into hoary old age.
- Like the one I had at first seen in the hold, they all bore about them the marks of a hoary old age.
- Though ground down with their hoary age, they intervened between the river and the inland sea she strove to reach.
- Had Mozart lived to the hoary old age of 73, he might indeed have fallen out of favor in an era besotted with Rossini, becoming a "largely forgotten, neglected, unperformed composer."
- It is more that while callow youth generally accepts that the theory expounded at the lectern is similar to the reality encountered in the office, hoary age has learned the discrepancies between the two all too well.
- Everything about the place carried the impression of hoary age.
- Thus the trappings become important: Baccarat decanters, silk-lined boxes, parchmentlike scrolls attesting to hoary old age.
- The date on the door of the Roman Catholic seminary in this Austrian provincial capital is 1455, when it was founded by Franciscans, but that image of hoary old age has not protected St. Pölten from disclosures of sexual misbehavior that have set off a major scandal in this country.
- Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves and twigs by hoary age, From depth of shaggy covert peeping forth In the low vale%!
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