hoary-headed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hoary-headed
First recorded in 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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Midway through a discussion of the 1876 election with Eric Sevareid, Moyers had to apologize for suggesting that the hoary-headed commentator had been around that year: "Of course, you won't recall it personally, Eric."
From Time Magazine Archive
Off for Tasmania last week with 225 rubber balloons, large tanks of hydrogen and a short-wave radio receiving set sailed hoary-headed Robert Andrews Millikan, pious physicist of the California Institute of Technology.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nothing is more unseemly than a hoary-headed man transported with the rage of youth.
From The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Around this great camp of prostrate Cyclops there stood an unbroken semicircle of mighty peaks in solemn grandeur, some hoary-headed, some with locks of brown, but all wearing white glacier collars.
From Alaska Days with John Muir by Young, Samual Hall
One of the bearers chanced on an ancient hoary-headed Boer, who was lying behind a rock supporting himself on his elbows.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Creswicke, Louis
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