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Age, Old Age, OldAlberich 500years old, but still child-sized. [Ger. Legend: Walsh Classical, 13]Chuffeyold clerk. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit]Cumaean sibylwas granted long life by Apollo; when she rejected his love, he withheld eternal youth and she withered away. [Gk. Myth.: Metamorphoses, 14]Darby and Joanhappily settled elderly couple. [Br. Ballad: Brewer Dictionary, 300]Ellipersonification of Old Age, he out-wrestled Thor. [Norse Myth.: Edith Hamilton Mythology]Ezekielportrayed with flowing white beard. [Art: Hall, 118]Father Timepersonification of the old year. [Folklore: Misc.]Geritolleading brand of tonic for geriatric health. [Trade marks: Crowley Trade, 230]Matlock, Lucindavigorous old woman dies at 96, scorning the degeneracy around her. [Am. Poetry: Masters Spoon River Anthology]Methuselaholdest man mentioned in Bible. [O.T.: Genesis 5:27]Parr, Thomashusbandman; lived through reigns of ten sovereigns. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 805]Philemon and Baucisfabled aged couple. [Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses]Prufrock, J. Alfred “Igrow old, I grow old.” [Br. Lit.: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in Hart, 497]Rabbi Ben EzraBrowning’s poem about old age. [Br. Poetry: Benét, 836]Storks’ Lawobliged children to maintain their needy parents in old age. [Rom. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 862]Superannuated Man, TheCharles Lamb’s essay on his growing infirmities and subsequent retirement. [Br. Lit.: Lamb, Charles in Benét, 563]Tithonusgranted immortality but not eternal youth; continually got older. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz] |