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old age

noun

Origin of old age¹

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50

Now in his old age, Hitchcock develops crushes on young women, gives them money, and asks them to do God knows what.

Old age is the saddest and rarest way to go; I witnessed it only once.

The three basic ways for prisoners to die are old age, disease or violently.

Murder, suicide, illness, old age: These deaths stalk us all, but in prison, they collect us so much more cheaply.

Should she leave her husband and endure loneliness or tolerate his dalliance and keep a companion for old age?

But men, through neglecting the rules of health, pass quickly to old age, and die before reaching that term.

He has come to believe in such things as old age pensions and national insurance.

From affluence he came to want, and in his old age a fund was raised sufficient to purchase him an annuity of £600 a year.

That we will, and you never need want, Mark, for I've many a fine bone buried away against old age and rainy weather.

The staff officer replied that a pension of four hundred francs would save them from want in their old age.

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