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Miss McCracken, ancient and unvenerable as himself, still kept the accounts.

From Tales of the Jazz Age by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

O, shame! to think that such gray, reverend hairs Should cover such unvenerable heads!

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma

And the aged unvenerable Grand-Duke of Saxe-Kesselberg died too in the same March; and afterward his other grandson, Prince Augustus, reigned in the merry old debauchee's stead.

From The Certain Hour by Cabell, James Branch

At the best, as we say, a somewhat despicable, unvenerable thing, this same 'Laissez-faire;' and now, at the worst, fast growing an altogether detestable one!

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas

His long and unvenerable hairs strayed loose beneath the dunghill relic which crowned them.

From Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by Murray, David Christie