ripe old age

To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.

Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.

Here began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.

His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.

Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.