Use elderly in a sentence
Sentences starting with elderly
- Elderly gentlemen of Northern persuasion paused in their homeward walk to smile in admiration, --some sadly, as Mr. Brinsmade. [9]
- Elderly people directed each other's attention and, said, "There! [5]
- Elderly man--a drinker. [5]
- Elderly lady. [5]
Short sentences using elderly
- One elderly person crossed himself. [9]
More example sentences with the word elderly in them
- An elderly woman would not have sprung so nimbly into the skiff that was to convey her to the land. [10]
- Madame Gravois, elderly, wizened, primp in a starched cotton gown, opened the door herself, fell upon Monsieur Vigo in the Creole fashion; and within a quarter of an hour I was installed in her best room, which gave out on a little court behind. [9]
- The old man with the spectacles was presently overtaken by a stout, elderly woman, who landed in the exhausted condition of a porpoise that has come ashore, and stood regardless of everything but her own weight, while member after member of the party straggled up. [4]
- He was watching, with a teasing sense of familiarity, a tall, shabbily dressed, elderly man, who had just come in. [8]
- The elderly servant, who, singularly enough, was of noble family--his real name was Von Wurmkessel--did his duty as noiselessly as a shadow. [10]
- The high-priest alone, who, as Caesar's host, had gone up to the side of the throne, and two or three others, among them the governor of the town, a tall, elderly man of Macedonian descent, paid no heed to the brute. [10]
- Among the guests who thronged to her house there was no lack of elderly gentlemen who would gladly have married the vivacious, unusual woman, who was so nearly connected with the royal family, and lived in such luxurious style. [10]
- Extremes meet, and who so like to be the other party as the elderly gentleman at the other end of the table, as far from her now as the length of the board permits? [6]
- The elderly lady who had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook Prince Vasili in the anteroom. [2]
- When the doctor who had been sent to me had finished his task of sewing up the wound and left us, an elderly woman entered, whose rank in life was somewhat difficult to determine. [10]
- An elderly sergeant who had approached the officer while he was giving these explanations had waited in silence for him to finish speaking, but at this point, evidently not liking the officer's remark, interrupted him. [2]
- Don't you remember, when we started to Niagara the last time, how everybody seemed middle-aged and commonplace; and when we got there there were no evident brides; nothing but elderly married people? [8]
- But Mr. Vane, when he was at home, lived on a wide, maple-shaded street in the city of Ripton, cared for by an elderly housekeeper who had more edges than a new-fangled mowing machine. [9]
- The elderly lady was using her handkerchief too. [2]
- An elderly man was standing beside them. [9]
- I thought it was pretty manifest that the elderly lady was embarrassed at finding herself in such a conspicuous place arrayed in such cheap apparel; I began to feel sorry for her and troubled about her. [5]
- The baker's wife was not there, and her spinster sister-in-law, an elderly, ill-natured woman, was serving the customers in her place. [10]
- Tom was conducted to the principal apartment of a noble suite, and made to sit down--a thing which he was loth to do, since there were elderly men and men of high degree about him. [5]
- I suspect it to have been shut most of the time, for I observe a good many elderly people adjust the organ of vision to any optical instrument in that way. [6]
- For a long time she sat brooding, forgetful of the present and of the little comedy of elderly lovers going on inside the house. [11]
- The elderly man thought he had never seen her look so charming as in the yellow velvet doublet with ash-gray facings, the gray silk hose, and the yellow and gray cap resting on her glittering golden hair. [10]
- But here and there amongst the diners, Honora observed, were elderly people who smiled discreetly as they glanced in their direction--friends, perhaps, of Mrs. Holt. [9]
- I was only there a few moments and hardly said a word..." "Annette, for heaven's sake don't refuse me," the countess began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. [2]
- Several persons, among them the elderly lady and Anna Pavlovna, did however smile. [2]
- He had been their physician and treated them kindly-an elderly man, he had himself undergone sore trials and, knowing the pain of suffering, was ready to alleviate the pangs of others. [10]
- When I reached the University Place, I saw two gentlemen talking together, and, as they had portfolios under their arms, I judged they were tutors or elderly students; so I asked them in English to show me the college jail. [5]
- Only too often the same drinking and carousing had gone on below as to-day-Henrica had always been compelled to join her aunt's guests, elderly dissolute men of French or Italian origin and easy morals. [10]
- The commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from chest to back than across the shoulders. [2]
- They were for the most part elderly men, and Melissa recognized among them Seleukus, Berenike's husband. [10]
- The sermon of the elderly minister had to do with beliefs rather than deeds, and was the subject of discussion at luncheon. [9]
- The change in the elderly lady's own expression, and incidentally in the atmosphere which enveloped her, was remarkable. [9]
- Mrs. Holden was the elderly housekeeper. [9]
- It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence. [5]
- The calls of the cheerful notary and the daily visits of the leech, an elderly man, who had depressed rather than cheered him by informing him of many cases like his own which all proved incurable, had been his sole diversion. [10]
- Miss Belle recognized the carriage immediately as belonging to an elderly lady who was well known in St. Louis. [9]
- It was evident that the meeting was as great a pleasure to the elderly pair as to the young man. [10]
- It was evident, that the elderly man cared little for anything that happened in the world, outside of his manuscripts and printing. [10]
- Beside Kuni's pallet stood a Gray Sister and an elderly man, evidently a physician. [10]
- After this incident Stephen fairly astonished his audience, --especially an elderly gentleman who sat on a cracker-box in the rear, out of sight of the stand. [9]
- But when he spoke about it to Mackenzie, the elderly maid and companion, he found that Mr. Armour had said that his wife was to arrive in England dressed as she was. [11]
- At any rate she had come over to Egypt with an elderly companion, and, after a short stay at the Consulate, had begun the career of the evangel. [11]
- I had done several little things, when an elderly man who is tremendously rich, whose name you would recognize if I mentioned it, gave me an order. [9]
- To men of sentiment its beauties will never be exhausted; but to the elderly and perhaps rheumatic tourist the draughty steamboats do not always bring back the remembered delight of youth. [4]
- When the count returned, Natasha was impolitely pleased and hastened to get away: at that moment she hated the stiff, elderly princess, who could place her in such an embarrassing position and had spent half an hour with her without once mentioning Prince Andrew. [2]
- When Prince Vasili returned to the drawing room, the princess, his wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about Pierre. [2]
- Most of those present were elderly, respected men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures and voices. [2]
- The other elderly personage, the old man with iron-gray hair and large round spectacles, sits at my right at table. [6]
- No one was permitted to cross the threshold except herself and an elderly nun, whom the Clares had sent for the sake of the wounded man's dead mother. [10]
- Also in our party was an elderly pilgrim who was the reverse of Jack, in that he was learned in the Scriptures and an enthusiast concerning them. [5]
- Jethro stood poring over the register, when a distinguished-looking elderly gentleman with a heavy gray beard and eyes full of shrewdness and humor paused at the desk to ask a question. [9]
- Yet her vehement outburst of wrath had startled him also, and a doubt arose in his mind as to what matrimonial life might be with a companion who, in spite of her youth, ventured to oppose elderly, dignified men so irritably and sharply. [10]
- From one point of view, he is twenty-nine and elderly, with a sense of humour unsuspected by young persons of temperament. [9]
- With the exception of the aunt, beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin careworn face was rather out of place in this brilliant society, the whole company had settled into three groups. [2]
- Two elderly gentlemen of grave demeanor sat on stools behind a puncheon table, and near them a young man was writing. [9]
- An elderly lady of dignified bearing looked out and met her eyes with a pleasant glance. [10]
- An elderly man of dignified aspect was standing close by, who, as Dada had already discovered, was the head of the ship-yard, and the warrior hastened towards him. [10]
- A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp. [6]
- In the very midst of their merriment an elderly man whom Stephen recognized as one of the German leaders (he afterwards became a United States general) came and stood smiling by the table and joined in the singing. [9]
- Presently, two elderly men sat down under that window and began a conversation. [5]
- You, nor the Mayor, nor the rest of the grave and elderly gentlemen were not blinded by the light of a royal Presence. [9]
- A clever elderly man, the sapper, or Sabuim, already mentioned--I think I never heard his real name--instructed us in the trades of the book binder and cabinet-maker. [10]
- The elderly, half-broken-down man of the day before had become a tall, stately noble in the prime of life; nay, in spite of his forty-six years, his eyes sparkled far more brightly and proudly than many a young knight's in his train. [10]
- I know he made a great impression on some elderly maiden ladies at the hotel, who thought him the most gentlemanly and good young man they had ever seen. [4]
- The elderly lady looked with considerable interest at the blazing lights of the Club, with the same sensations she would no doubt have had if she had been suddenly set down within the Moulin Rouge. [9]
- An elderly woman looked out at them through the open half of a leaded lattice. [9]
- Conspicuous in the little assembly was a tall, elderly man in a shabby long coat and a broad felt hat, from under which his white hair fell upon his shoulders. [4]
- The elderly gentleman lighted a cigar. [9]
- After a somewhat lengthy interval the tall figure of an elderly man followed, clad in deep mourning. [10]
- The young Prince laughing at her sallies, and the elderly gentleman smiling with benevolence upon the pair. [9]
- The hard, supple, keenly polished intellect of Iras now asserted its value, and the elderly woman told herself that she was in danger of being held in less regard than her younger companion. [10]
- Mr. Gray had just arrived, and the warden, a genial, elderly Boer named Du Plessis--explained that his orders wouldn't allow him to admit saint and sinner at the same time, particularly on a Sunday. [5]
- She provoked the jealousy of the elderly magnate and told him what she had told her other suitor; that is, she put the matter so that the only way for him to obtain a right over her was to marry her. [2]
- An elderly man in the costume of a merchant was just holding out his hand in farewell, and he heard him say: "You've bought too cheap again, far too cheap, Jungfer Ruth. [10]
- Uproar greeted the huge white cylinder of ice-cream borne by Katie, the senior of the elderly maids; uproar greeted the cake; and finally there was a rush for the chocolates, little tablets wrapped in tinfoil and tied with red and blue ribbon. [9]
- He recalled, in his musings, the little theological school surrounded by southern woods and fields, where he had sometime walked under autumn foliage with the elderly gentleman who had had such an influence on his life--the dean. [9]
- Once more, as his earnest glance fell upon me, came that suggestion of a subtle, inexplicable link between us; but before I could reply, steps were heard behind us, and an elderly servant, bareheaded, was seen coming down the path. [9]
- She had impressed him as a gentle, wise, elderly little creature, who appeared to live for others, and chiefly for her grandfather. [11]
- His view of her was shared by most men who knew the world, and especially by the elderly men who had a real knowledge of human nature, among whom was a certain important member of the United States executive called John Appleton. [11]
- Yet she esteemed her elderly husband and it was not difficult for her to give him a cordial welcome. [10]
- But the skiff had scarcely been brought to a stop there when an elderly matron, who shared the couch of an old Macedonian man of a distinguished, soldierly appearance, called the name "Niobe. [10]
- The elderly dame had once been beautiful, now and at this hour she presented a strange, unpleasing appearance. [10]
- Out of a group of people at the farther end of this porch arose an elderly lady, who came forward and clasped Susan in her arms. [9]
- An elderly Senator got up and took another view of the case. [5]
- Some of the gentlemen lounged off to the office region for politics and cigars, the elderly ladies took seats upon the gallery, and the rest of the party strolled down to the benches under the trees. [4]
- She was aroused from her reflections by the soft but penetrating notes of a Japanese gong, followed by a gentle knock on the door and the entrance of an elderly maid, who informed her it was time to dress for dinner. [9]
- Natasha saw and felt the agitation the two elderly men and her brother were trying to conceal, and was herself excited by it. [2]
- The place was familiar now: she had been there to supper with Mrs. Maturin, a supper cooked and served by Martha Vesey, an elderly, efficient and appallingly neat widow, whom Insall had discovered somewhere in his travels and installed as his housekeeper. [9]
- He looked stately enough, and his grave, oldfashioned, but thoroughly soldierly manners admirably suited the elderly warrior. [10]
- Mr. Raikes was elderly, and showed signs of needing a vacation. [9]
- But why do elderly people go there? [4]
- Close to the drinking-vessels, on the stone top of the table, rested the arm of an elderly woman who had fallen asleep in the arm-chair in which she sat. [10]
- This was Father Dorante, Don John's confessor, an elderly man with a face in which earnest piety was so happily mingled with kindly cheerfulness that Barbara rejoiced to know that such a guardian of souls was at her son's side. [10]
- This included two distinguished foreigners who were staying at the Leith Inn, an Englishman and an Austrian, and an elderly lady of very considerable social importance who was on a visit to Mrs. Pomfret. [9]
- She showed her displeasure so plainly that her Italian singing mistress, the elderly spinster Caterina de Celano, took sides with her, and scornfully asked the countess whether she had brought her curling irons with her. [10]
- There was all day long a competition of dudes and elderly widowers and bachelors to wait on her. [4]
- Cotton Mather himself could not have disapproved of the Sundays, nor of the discourse of the elderly Doctor Moale (which you heard if you were not a Presbyterian), although the reverend gentleman was distinctly Anglican in appearance and manners. [9]
- Halfway to the corner he met a little elderly man who was the color of a dried gourd. [9]
- The reputations of certain elderly gentlemen of wealth might have remained to this day intact had it not been for her; she had a heaven-sent knack of discovering peccadilloes. [9]
- What does she care about her elderly travelling companion? [10]
- Els did not bestow a single glance upon these familiar pictures, but gazed down at the thirteen elderly and the same number of much younger men, who in their high-backed chairs were holding council together at her left hand far below her. [10]
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