Old age Sentence Examples

To a youth and womanhood of storm and stress had succeeded an old age of serene activity and then of calm decay.

In his initial declaration to the chamber the new premier had declared his intention of continuing the policy of the late cabinet, pledging the new ministry to a policy of conciliation, to the consideration of old age pensions, an income-tax, separation of Church and State.

In his old age he was blinded by cataract, but recovered his eyesight by the operation of couching.

The money thus obtained was appropriated in part to naval defence and harbours, and in part to the provision of old age pensions under the Federal Old Age Pension Act of 1908.

I 'd say he got pretty sloppy in his old age.

What's the point of living to a ripe old age if you can't enjoy yourself?

In my younger days I slept on the ground half the summer, but old age makes you stiff.

In his old age he was engaged in incessant conflicts with his Aragonese and Catalan subjects, with Louis XI.

In old age they appear much ground down; particularly is this the case with women, who chew the different kinds of fibres, of which they make nets and bags.

The Commonwealth legislation thus made provision for the aged poor in the three states which up to 1908 had not accepted the principle of old age pensions, and also for those who, owing to their having resided in more than one state, were debarred from receiving pension in any.

In May he refused to take the oath of supremacy, acquiring like his colleagues consistency with old age.

Vestals frequently adopted daughters, usually other vestals, to care for their old age.

On the i7th of July 1898 a national fund for the insurance of workmen against illness and old age was founded by law on the principle of optional registration.

The state (law of the 15th of April 1896) imposed this condition in order to determine exactly the aims of the societies, and, while allowing them to give help to their sick, old or feeble members, or aid the families of deceased members, to forbid them to pay old-age pensions, lest they assumed burdens beyond their financial strength.

The male matures when about fifteen years of age, marries when about twenty-six, begins to age when about forty, and lives on to sixty or sixty-five if he reaches old age.

Almost beardless, and with thin eyebrows, they had on their heads thick, black, lustrous hair, which neither fell off nor turned grey until extreme old age.

The first book opens with a few verses, in which Boetius describes how his sorrows had brought him to a premature old age.

Frazer has put forward the view that while the sacrifice of the god may have been piacular, it was also intended to preserve his divine life against the inroads of old age.

The history of his life i s i mmediately continued in I Kings i., where his old age and weakness are for the first time vividly empha sized.

He reverted in his old age to the mathematical pursuits of his earlier years, and his ardour for knowledge of every kind remained fresh to the last.

The ex-peshwa lived to old age at Bithur, and died in 1857.

Obviously the purpose of the paragraph is to point out the wisdom of enjoying life in the time of youth while the physical powers are fresh and strong, and the impotency of old age has not yet crept in.

His name was especially associated with a project for the establishment of old age pensions, which became law in 1905.

But in music he had no more to learn, and Parsifal, while the most solemn and concentrated of all Wagner's dramas, is musically not always unsuggestive of old age.

More, who knew her in old age when she was "lean, withered and dried up," says that in youth she was "proper and fair, nothing in her body that you would have changed, but if you would have wished her somewhat higher."

When independence had been obtained, Miaoulis in his old age was entangled in the civil conflicts of his country, as an opponent of Capodistrias and the Russian party.

Close to the latter stand the new supreme court, the old age and accident state insurance offices, the chief custom house, and the concert hall, founded by Karl Laeisz, a former Hamburg wharfinger.

He lived, however, for many years thereafter, dying of old age at Franklin on the 23rd of September 1840.

The six comedies he wrote in his old age did not add to his reputation.

Even in his old age he displayed the same restless energy, and is said to have been meditating a fresh attack on Carthage at the time of his death.

In old age there is a natural wearing out of the elements of the various tissues.

In old age he was a mere skeleton, with a long nose and eyes of preternatural brilliancy peering out of his wig.

Passing northward by Nanking and crossing the Yangtsze-kiang, Odoric embarked on the Great Canal and travelled to Cambalec (otherwise Cambaleth, Cambaluc, &c.) or Peking, where he remained for three years, attached, no doubt, to one of the churches founded by Archbishop John of Monte Corvino, at this time in extreme old age.

The climate has a beneficial effect on pulmonary diseases, especially in their earlier stages, and is remarkable in arresting the decay of vital power consequent upon old age.

In his prime Gladstone was just six feet high, but his inches diminished as his years increased, and in old age the unusual size of his head and breadth of his shoulders gave him a slightly top-heavy appearance.

He taught rhetoric at Rome (one of his pupils being Jerome), and in his old age became a convert to Christianity.

A strange episode in the legend of the destruction of man by the gods tells how Ra (or Re), the first king of the world, finding in his old age that mankind ceased to respect him, first tried the remedy of massacre, and then ascended the heavenly cow, and organized a new world - that of heaven.9 8.

But his attacks upon the Roman aristocracy, especially the Metelli, were resented by their objects; and Naevius, after being imprisoned, had to retire in his old age into banishment.

No woman makes any but the briefest appearance in his pages, though in reference to this it must of course be remembered that he was certainly a man past middle life when the events occurred, and perhaps a man approaching old age when he set them down.

In his old age he married the daughter of King Abel.

The Old Age Pensions law, enacted in 1898, provided for the free grant of pensions, not exceeding £18 a year, to persons of sixty-five years and upwards who had lived for twentyfive years in the colony.

The years 18 9 6,1897 and 18 9 8 were marked by struggles over the Old Age Pensions Bill, which became law in November 1898.

If the dead man was John the presbyter - if this John had in youth just seen Jesus and the Zebedean, and in extreme old age had still seen and approved the Gospel - to attribute this Gospel to him, as is done here, would not violate the literary ethics of those times.

Some have given up all grain and pulse foods, and have declared that old age can be best resisted by living entirely upon fruits, salads, nuts, soft water and milk products.

A universal scheme of old-age and invalidity insurance was before Parliament in 1921.

The old age of Trembecki appears to have been ignoble and neglected; he had indeed "fallen upon evil days and evil tongues"; and when he died at an advanced age all the gay courtiers of whom he had been the parasite were either dead or had submitted to the Muscovite yoke.

For that year the budget was already settled, and it was introduced by Mr Asquith himself, the ex-chancellor; but Mr Lloyd George earned golden opinions, both at the Treasury and in parliament, by his industry and his handling of the Finance Bill, especially important for its inclusion of Old Age Pensions, in the later stages.

The loneliness of a queen who had no husband or children and no relatives to mention must at all times have been oppressive; it grew desolating in old age after the deaths of Leicester, Walsingham, Burghley and Essex, and Elizabeth died, the last of her race, on the 24th of March 1603.

In old age the huge columnar trunk rises to a great height bare of boughs, while on the upper part the branches are short and irregular.

The few rivers of the region must have reached the quiescence of old age iii the earlier cycle, but were revived by uplift to a vigorous youth in the current cycle; and it is to this newly introduced cycle of physiographic evolution that the deep canyons of the Plateau province are due.

The requirements of sickness and old age are carefully provided for in the infirmary cloister and that for the aged and infirm members of the establishment.

In the course of time the lad joined the army and went to India, where he rose to the rank of major-general and amassed a fortune of 70,000 with which he endowed the Elgin Institution (commonly known as the Anderson Institution) at the east end of High Street, for the education of youth and the support of old age.

But as the sultan grew old his numerous sons, who held each the command of a city of the empire, embittered his old age by their mutual rivalry, and the eldest, IKutb ed-din, tyrannized over his father in his own capital, exactly at the time that Frederick I.

But the general character of Wellington's last years was rather that of the old age of a great man idealized.

The only allusion to his death is contained in the prophecy of Teiresias, who promised him a happy old age and a peaceful death from the sea.

In 1900 laws were passed regulating the contract of labour, placing the workman on a footing of perfect equality with his employer, assuring the married woman free control of her savings, and organizing a system of old-age pensions.

This office is divided into four departments, dealing with (i.) the business of the Bundesrat, the Rcichstag, the elections, citizenship, passports, the press, and military and naval matters, so far as the last concern the civil authorities; (ii.) purely social matters, such as old age pensions, accident insurance, migration, settlement, poor law administration, &c.; (iii.) sanitary matters, patents, canals, steamship lines, weights and measures; and (iv.) commercial and economic relationssuch as agriculture, industry, commercial treaties and statistics.

The old-age pensions (beginning at 70 years) amount to 5, los.; 7; 8, los.; 10; and 1/211, lOs.

Baron von Ketteler, archbishop of Mainz, had maintained that it was the duty of the state to secure working men work and provision during sickness and old age.

The really important element was the scheme for a great imperial system by which all working men and women should be provided for in case of sickness, accident or old age.

Agathocles in his old age took a wife of the house of Ptolemy; he gave his daughter Lanassa to Pyrrhus, and established his power east of Hadria, as the first Sicilian ruler of Corcyra.

By law of the 9th of April 1891 a system of old-age pensions was established for the benefit of persons over sixty years of age.

He survived into the era of Kant, Goethe and Schiller, but he was not of it, and it would have been unreasonable to expect that he should in old age pass beyond the limits of his own epoch.

First, it seems, he had made an excursion to Bologna, having intended to take Mantua on the way, in order to do homage to the old age of that Italian master, Andrea Mantegna, from whose work he had himself in youth learned the most.

His old age was spent in obscure poverty, his friends and associates having nearly all passed away before him.

Later English writers allege that he died of starvation in the mountains; but Welsh legend represents him as spending a peaceful old age with his sons-in-law at Ewyas and Monington in Herefordshire, till his death and burial at the latter place.

The memoir is remarkable inasmuch as it roused Lagrange, after an interval of inactivity, to compose in his old age one of the greatest of his memoirs, viz.

He is said to have been led away in his old age by Pelagianism, but to have repented and inflicted long-enduring penance on himself.

He was not an agreeable companion, violent in his passions, nervous, restless, and in old age extremely irascible.

His old age was saddened by a great misfortune.

Cato maior, or de Senectute, a dialogue placed in 150 B.C. in which Cato, addressing Scipio and Laelius, set forth the praises of old age.

Petrarch was under the impression in his old age that he had once possessed Cicero's lost work de Gloria, but it is probable that he was misled by one of the numerous passages in the extant writings dealing with this subject.'

In France, on the contrary, the low natality having been so long continued, has raised the death-rate, by reason of the balance of proportion having been shifted by it from youth and the prime of life to old age.

Stella's one child, Lucilio, survived his birth but fifty days; nor did his mother long remain to comfort the scholar's old age.

Suffering, said the sage in his great sermon at Benares, is inseparable from birth and old age.

Such a life was specially recommended for one who has lived the life of a householder, and, having begotten sons according to the sacred law and offered sacrifices, desires in his old age to abandon worldly objects and direct his mind to final liberation.

An important motif in magico-religious ritual, which may not have been without effect on the development of sacrifice, is, as Dr Frazer's main thesis in The Golden Bough asserts, the imparting of reproductive energy to animals, plants and man himself, its cessation being suggested by such phenomena as old age and the fall of the year.

From these fragments we learn that the beginning or first principle (apxii, a word which, it is said, he was the first to use) was an endless, unlimited mass (i.irecpov), subject to neither old age nor decay, and perpetually yielding fresh materials for the series of beings which issued from it.

He desired that it should be applied to a fund for insurance and old age pensions for workmen and old people, to the lightening of the municipal taxes by state contributions to the schools and workhouses, to the abolition of the land taxes and of the obligation of keeping a horse and man for military service, and, lastly, to the improvement of the shipping trade; but the Riksdag decided to devote it to other objects, such as the payment of the deficit in the budget, the building of railways and augmentation of their material, as well as to improvements in the defences of the country.

During the five years1884-1889a committee was occupied with the question of workmen's insurance, and thrice the government made proposals for its settlement, on the last occasion adopting the principle of invalidity as a common basis for insurance against accidents, illness or old age.

In the Stadtwald, close to the town, is a women's hospital for diseases of the lungs, a government institution in connexion with the state system of insurance against incapacity and old age.

The slaves in Persia have a good time; well fed, well clothed, treated as spoiled children, given the lightest work, and often given in marriage to a favorite son or taken ar segah or concubine by the master himself, slaves have the certainty of a well-cared-for old age.

Having succeeded in quelling a dangerous rebellion headed by his cousin Behram Khan, this able prince at length died in extreme old age in the month of June 1795, leaving three sons and five daughters.

But the prevailing impression we carry away after reading him is that in all his early satires he was animated by a sincere and manly detestation of the tyranny and cruelty, the debauchery and luxury, the levity and effeminacy, the crimes and frauds, which we know from other sources were then rife in Rome, and that a more serene wisdom and a happier frame of mind were attained by him when old age had somewhat allayed the fierce rage which vexed his manhood.

But the work that holds the palm in its class is the Peregrinagao which Fernao Mendes Pinto, the famous adventurer, composed in his old age for his children's reading.

The instantaneous revulsion of public feeling was somewhat unreasonable, for Pitt's health seems now to have been beyond doubt so shattered by his hereditary malady, that he was already in old age though only fifty-eight.

The fortunes of his house declined in his old age.

In his old age Constantine, who had once been a famous warrior, utterly neglected the defences of the empire and reduced his army by disbanding 50,000 of his best troops; on the other hand, he spent extravagant sums on luxuries and the erection of magnificent buildings.

In the House of Commons he was a prominent supporter of Charles Bradlaugh; he was the first to advocate old age pensions, and in 1890 carried a proposal to free elementary education in Scotland.

He was the son of Heih's old age.

Returning to Milan with his law-suits ended in 1511, Leonardo might have looked forward to an old age of contented labour, the chief task of which, had he had his will, would undoubtedly have been to put in order the vast mass of observations and speculations accumulated in his note-books, and to prepare some of them for publication.

Many excellent persons, whose moral character from boyhood to old age has been free from any stain discernible to their fellow-creatures, have, in their autobiographies and diaries, applied to themselves, and doubtless with sincerity, epithets as severe as could be applied to Titus Oates or Mrs Brownrigg.

We want to see whether we cannot make for the agricultural labourer some better hope than the workhouse in his old age.

But before old age came on him, Boudin's father abandoned seafaring, and the son gave it up too, having of course no real vocation for it, though he preserved to his last days much of a sailor's character, - frankness, accessibility, open-heartedness.

He was born on the 11 th of November 1661, and was the only surviving son of his father's two marriages - a child of old age and disease, in whom the constant intermarriages of the Habsburgs had developed the family type to deformity.

In his old age he retired to Clapham, where he died on the 15th of February 1836.

Every fostered person was under an obligation to provide, if necessary, for the old age of foster-parents.

But Charles Eugene did not keep his promises, although in his old age he made a few further concessions.

Wrinkled and puckered by exposure to the weather, the faces even of the younger Lapps assume an appearance of old age.

But for barbarous nations old-age comes early, and after Dagoberts death (639), the monarchy went swiftly to its doom.

Domestic afflictions combined with numerous and painful infirmities to embitter his old age.

Outside parliament he was busy formulating proposals for old age pensions, which had a prominent place in the Unionist programme of 1895.

Another "social" measure of less importance, which formed part of the Chamberlain programme, was the Small Houses Acquisition Act of 18 9 9; but the problem of old age pensions was less easily solved.

Eventually it was the Liberal and not the Unionist party that carried an Old Age Pensions scheme through parliament, during the 1908 session, when Mr Chamberlain was hors de combat.

Livio Bellorum omnium annorum DCC Libri duo, is written in a bombastic and rhetorical style, and is rather a panegyric of the greatness of Rome, whose life is divided into the four periods of infancy, youth, manhood and old age.

His love of travel led him in his old age to visit different parts of Armenia and Asia Minor, and he was setting out on a pilgrimage to Mecca when he died at Bagdad in 1231.

On the threshold of old age the philosopher cast a glance at the days of his childhood.

There are exceptions to this, however, as children are more affected in proportion by opium and some other substances, and less by mercury and arsenic. In old age also the nervous system and the tissues generally do not react so readily as in youth.

His life was arranged with mechanical regularity; and, as he never married, he kept the habits of his studious youth to old age.

Through no fault of mine I am now looking for my 3rd home at the ripe old age of 9 months.

The cause of death was old age no medical attendant.

Others will suffer the steady attrition of chronic health problems that diminish the quality of their life for much of their old age.

It's got a pretty bleak outlook on old age.

His goal scoring heroics in Tuscany were enough to earn him an international call-up at the ripe old age of 29.

Our friend and colleague Bob Shimizu tells us that he is studying to become a curmudgeon in his old age.

How shall I have a son, when my wife is barren and I have grown quite decrepit from old age?

First old-age dependency ratios are misleading an aging society by definition has a much smaller proportion of children to support.

But Nemo, flea handler extraordinaire at his parent's flea circus, just wants Chingwe to enjoy a quiet old age.

Whilst elderly, Mrs Ashworth was far from being so infirm that her death could reasonably be ascribed to old age.

Somebody suggested to me that Bryan Hollon is getting more mellow in his old age.

You develop a soft center and learn not to care that you may be getting mushy in your old age.

Here he lived to a ripe old age suffering the classic fate of a surviving unsuccessful revolutionary - almost total oblivion.

The [OAP] - Old Age Players clan was formed in November 2001 solely to play tactical Ops, an Unreal Tournament modification.

It was his attitude to others that led him to organize bus outings for old-age pensioners from Malton.

It's these people who are likely to face penury in old age.

Why do patients fall on old age psychiatry wards?

In old age she became the regent of the Empire.

I'd say he got pretty sloppy in his old age.

Or is that me getting soppy in my old age?

Now, at the ripe old age of 54, actor Jane Seymour dared to go topless on screen for the first time.

Il mourut l'an 1616, et fut enterre hors la Porte Occidentale d'Edinbourg, dans l'Eglise de Sainct Cudbert.'" There can be no doubt that Napier's devotion to mathematics was not due to old age and the gout, and that he died in 1617 and not in 1616; still these sentences were written within eighteen years of Napier's death, and their author seems to have had some special sources of information.

The same period that saw this legislation adopted was also marked by the establishment of old age pensions in the three eastern states, and also in the Commonwealth.

Robur, but in old age the boughs generally curve downwards, and the tree acquires a wide spreading head; the bark is dark brown, becoming grey and furrowed in large trees; the foliage varies much, but in the prevailing kinds the leaves are very deeply sinuated, with pointed, often irregular lobes, the footstalks short, and furnished at the base with long linear stipules that do not fall with the leaf, but remain attached to the bud till the following spring, giving a marked feature to the young shoots.

On his moral essays it may suffice to notice the dissertations On Nobility, On Vicissitudes of Fortune, On the Misery of Human Life, On the Infelicity of Princes and On Marriage in Old Age.

And in January 1902, reversing the policy which had its inception in the encyclical, Rerum novarum, of 1891, and had further been developed ten years later in a letter to the Italian bishops entitled Graves de communi, the "Sacred Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs" issued instructions concerning "Christian Democracy in Italy," directing that the popular Christian movement, which embraced in its programme a number of social reforms, such as factory laws for children, old-age pensions, a minimum wage in agricultural industries, an eight-hours' day, the revival of trade gilds, and the encouragement of Sunday rest, should divert its attention from all such things as savoured of novelty and devote its energies to the restoration of the temporal power.

But he was, in fact, of a great simplicity in temperament, affectionate, shy, still exquisitely sensitive in extreme old age to the influences of beauty, melancholy and sweetness.

Political, commercial and matrimonial alliances inevitably left their mark upon national religion, and the introduction of foreign cults which ensued is characteristically viewed as an apostasy from Yahweh of which he was guilty in his old age.

But he was certainly a prudent and circumspect ruler of blameless life, possessing, as Arnold of Lubeck (c. 1160-1212) expresses it, "the sober wisdom of old age even in his tender youth."

On the other hand, the troubled and not impeccable past of the new pontiff was bound to excite some misgiving; while, at the same time, severe bodily suffering had brought old age on a man of but 53 years.

The old-age and invalid insurance is carried out by thirty-one large territorial offices, to which must be added nine special unions.

The session of 1908 opened with Mr Asquith acting avowedly as the prime minister's deputy, and the course of business was itself of a nature to emphasize his claims. After two rather humdrum budgets he was pledged to inaugurate a system of old-age pensions (forming the chief feature of the budget of 1908, personally introduced by him at the beginning of May), and his speech in April on the Licensing Bill was a triumph of clear exposition, though later in the year, after passing the Commons, it was thrown out by the Lords.

Thus the elements of which Faust is composed were even more difficult to blend than were those of Wilhelm Meister; but the very want of uniformity is one source of the perennial fascination of the tragedy, and has made it in a peculiar degree the national poem of the German people, the mirror which reflects the national life and poetry from the outburst of Sturm and Drang to the well-weighed and tranquil classicism of Goethe's old age.

No stranger was to have access, and the boy was to be cognizant of none of the sorrows of humanity, such as poverty, disease, old age or death, but only of what was pleasant, so that he should have no inducement to think of the future life; nor was he ever to hear a word of Christ and His religion.

All who reach old age must lose their strength and become like him, feeble and gray.

When Prince Andrew entered the study the old man in his old-age spectacles and white dressing gown, in which he received no one but his son, sat at the table writing.

He despised them because of his old age and experience of life.

Blide or ' Blythe ', whose name means ' Joy ', reposed in old age.

These leftovers from the star 's old age have been subsequently run over and lit up by the supernova blast wave.

Sarah-Wife of Abraham who gave him a son despite their old age.

When your cat reaches the ripe old age of thirteen, he is considered a senior.

He did some similar things and it was very frustrating, although we were able to work through it and kept him until he died of old age.

We live an average of half of that time span and count ourselves as living to a ripe old age.

People who eat a raw food diet look younger than their years, enjoy great health, and live to be strong and fit into what we now consider very old age.

A cake that points out old age is a fun way to set a humorous tone at the party and invite some good-natured ribbing.

In 1999, at the ripe old age of 31, Hawk stopped competing in contests.

Sudden onset hair loss is usually symptomatic of a health problem, so I really don't think it has anything directly to do with old age.

Otto the oldest dog, at least according to Guinness World Records, passed away on January 14, 2010 at the ripe old age of 20.

Many Goldie Poos are healthy and live well into old age with relatively minor health concerns.

The moon also represents the seasons of a woman's life from youth to old age.

For a 50th birthday party, it can be fun to share jokes about old age.

The site includes pages of longer jokes that poke fun at old age.

Fable is an open-ended role-playing game designed for Xbox where you mold the character from childhood, through maturity and old age.

This game takes you and immerses you in the lifestyle of the character that you create, from childhood through maturity and old age.

But what is even more amazing, is his video game ability at the ripe old age of 3 years old.

This disorder is much more likely to occur in old age or in the last trimester of pregnancy than in childhood.

One example is pernicious anemia, a disease that tends to occur in middle age or old age and impairs the absorption of vitamin B12.

Her competition career began at the ripe old age of thirteen, and she continues to dance today, enjoying a much larger-scale career.

In the late spring of 2009, the Webkinz Jr. line was released to appeal to the 3 to 6 year old age range.

But the guy lived to the ripe old age of 94, so it least it didn't seem to have hurt him.

Pauling himself is said to have taken 3 grams (3,000 milligrams) of vitamin C daily, and he lived to the ripe old age of 93 before finally succumbing to prostate cancer.

With the average lifespan increasing all the time, keeping yourself fit and healthy is a major concern if you want to get to a ripe old age while also being in good health.

If you are nearing retirement age, understanding Medicare coverage can better prepare you for dealing with the increased medical expenses that often accompany old age.

Otherwise, old age by itself isn't necessarily a risk, but is considered risky in conjunction with other signs of bad health.

At the ripe old age of 18, Brooke is already a seasoned songwriter.

Lil Wayne is also the president of New Orlean's hugely successful Cash Money Records and CEO of Young Money Entertainment, making him one of hip hop's most successful businessmen, all at the ripe old age of 24.

In fact, he claims that his love affair with music began when he received a guitar as a Christmas present at the ripe old age of two.

Nick was discovered at the ripe old age of six while he was singing in a local barber shop.

Discovered online, Bieber sparked a bidding war between mega stars and was breaking chart records by the ripe old age of 15.

At the ripe old age of 19, Shawn Fanning changed the music industry when he set up Napster, a P2P file sharing service that over 100 million people used to swap free music in its launch year alone.

Bianca Taylor Ryan won the inaugural season of America's Got Talent at the ripe old age of 11.

However if you don't want to wait around until old age to get control of your pores, there are a few other oil causes you can avoid.

I figured I was get­ting absentminded in my old age and I tossed it when I was clean­ing up.

The child was then adopted to care for the parents' old age.

Among the ammonites the loss of power to coil the shell is one feature of racial old age, and in others old age is accompanied by closer coiling and loss of surface ornamentation, such as spines, ribs, spirals; while in other forms an arresting of variability precedes extinction.

Skip the usual old-age gags and give your friend or family member a proper roast.