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Methuselah
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  • But the storm lashed sideways, battering the walls and poor Methuselah.†   (source)
  • As convincing as Methuselah shouting, Sister God is great!†   (source)
  • Methuselah was definitely in the girls' camp.†   (source)
  • Under the eave of the porch our charge Methuselah screamed like a drowning man in his cage.†   (source)
  • Methuselah, like me, is a cripple: the Wreck of Wild Africa.†   (source)
  • In my father's hands Methuselah looked like nothing but a feathered toy.†   (source)
  • Methuselah was a sly little representative of Africa itself, living openly in our household.†   (source)
  • Methuselah may or may not have heard about this, for he mumbles badly.†   (source)
  • Methuselah hunched his shoulders and sidled away from the door.†   (source)
  • "Which one of you taught Methuselah to say that word?" he demanded.†   (source)
  • My sisters and I shifted in our chairs, expecting Father to assign Methuselah "The Verse.†   (source)
  • We already understood what was now dawning on my father: Methuselah could betray our secrets.†   (source)
  • I wanted to think: Methuselah is playing a trick on me.†   (source)
  • So I had to root for Methuselah to learn to be free.†   (source)
  • From his big cage on the porch, Methuselah screeched at us in Kikongo.†   (source)
  • We let Methuselah go because his captivity was an embarrassment to us.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, Methuselah didn't just imitate words, he knew them.†   (source)
  • "I'll tell you what, though, Methuselah is not dumb.†   (source)
  • A tree big enough to house the whole University of San Francisco campus, a tree so old it makes the Methuselah Tree look like it was just planted.†   (source)
  • But now, seeing Hekate's tree house, Sophie had no doubt that it was incredibly ancient, millennia older than the Methuselah Tree.†   (source)
  • Their parents had taken them to see the three-thousand-year-old giant redwoods, and they had spent a week camping with their father in the White Mountains in the north of California as he investigated the Methuselah Tree, which, at nearly five thousand years old, was supposed to be the oldest living thing on the planet.†   (source)
  • I myself would not curse, in or out of Methuselah's hearing or even in my dreams, because I crave heaven and to be my father's favorite.†   (source)
  • Like Methuselah I cowered beside my cage, and though my soul hankered after the mountain, I found, like Methuselah, I had no wings.†   (source)
  • But in the case of the cursing parrot that first long rainy day, Methuselah could not be made to copy the Bible.†   (source)
  • He shoved himself straight to his feet, strode to the porch, and flung open the door of Methuselah's cage.†   (source)
  • "The first time my father heard Methuselah say, "Damn," his body moved strangely, as if he'd received the spirit or a twinge of bad heartburn.†   (source)
  • Or I'd cut up fruit for Methuselah, still hanging around begging, and catch grasshoppers for Leon, the chameleon we keep in a wooden crate.†   (source)
  • Curiously exempt from the Reverend's rules was Methuselah, in the same way Our Father was finding the Congolese people beyond his power.†   (source)
  • "Methuselah had sidled up into the bougainvillea bush right behind us, muttering, "Lubberlubberlubber."†   (source)
  • Methuselah is an African Grey parrot with a fine scaly look to his head, a sharp skeptical eye like Miss Leep's, and a scarlet tail.†   (source)
  • Methuselah had never said "Damn" before, so this was something new, spoken right out very chipper in a feminine tone of voice.†   (source)
  • Set upon by the civet cat, the spy, the eye, the hunger of a superior need, Methuselah is free of his captivity at last.†   (source)
  • At first I wanted Methuselah to come back and live in his cage, until Father explained to me that this whole arrangement was wrong.†   (source)
  • This happened often at our house, but we always knew it was Methuselah, since we did have a door and did not, as a rule, have visitors.†   (source)
  • We also watched Methuselah, who after four months of liberation still hung around our house mumbling.†   (source)
  • Long ago someone broke off the inches nineteen through thirty-six and assigned these to Methuselah for the conduct of his affairs.†   (source)
  • REHCTACYLF ESIDARAP I also made a habit of following Methuselah as he made his way around our house in insecure spirals.†   (source)
  • Methuselah sits puny and still in his avocado tree with his eyes ticking back and forth, unprepared for a new season of overwhelming freedom.†   (source)
  • ""Damn damn damn!" observed Methuselah.†   (source)
  • In following Methuselah on his slow forays through the forest, I discovered the boys and men practicing drills.†   (source)
  • I hadn't even considered the irreversible spoiling of Methuselah's innocence, which just goes to show I have much to learn.†   (source)
  • The enslaved parrot Methuselah, whose flesh has been devoured now by many generations of predators, is forcing his declaration of independence through the mouths of leopards and civet cats.†   (source)
  • When his screaming got too pathetic to bear, our grim-faced mother brought in his cage and set it on the floor by the window, where Methuselah continued his loud, random commentary.†   (source)
  • Our pets had mostly escaped by then, or been eaten up, as in the case of Methuselah, but the Congo still offered a wealth of God's creatures to entertain us.†   (source)
  • From Methuselah we have learned the Irish-Yankee voice of Brother Fowles, whom we picture as looking like that Father Flanagan that runs the Boys Town.†   (source)
  • Unable to work either the dishwater or Methuselah's long memory into a proper ending for his parable, Our Father merely looked at us all and heaved the great sigh of the put-upon male.†   (source)
  • Anatole gave her as a gift a small, highly functional bow and a quiver of arrows with red tail feathers—like the "Hope" in Miss Dickinson's poem, and like the quite hopelessly dead Methuselah, our former parrot.†   (source)
  • But no. In a burst of light Methuselah opened his wings and fluttered like freedom itself, lifting himself to the top of our Kentucky Wonder vines and the highest boughs of the jungle that will surely take back everything once we are gone.†   (source)
  • Methuselah.†   (source)
  • Methuselah called.†   (source)
  • Methuselah!†   (source)
  • Methuselah called out.†   (source)
  • The Utopian play by Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, produced in 1921, converted the theme into a modern socio-biological parable.†   (source)
  • Methuselah bestowed information on Epimenides.†   (source)
  • Why was it that Methuselah lived nine hundred years, and 'Old Parr' one hundred and sixty-nine, and yet that poor Lucy, with four men's blood in her poor veins, could not live even one day?†   (source)
  • The other day I saw Miss Trotter (that was), arrayed in them, trip into the travelling carriage at St. George's, Hanover Square, and Lord Methuselah hobbled in after.†   (source)
  • "Now, you are my witness, Miss Summerson, I say I don't care—but if he was to come to our house with his great, shining, lumpy forehead night after night till he was as old as Methuselah, I wouldn't have anything to say to him.†   (source)
  • …thoroughly wise in regard to all her operations as if she had been put upon the stocks when he was a boy, and he had helped to lay her keel—who has come to his growth, and can hardly acquire more of natural lore if he should live to the age of Methuselah—told me—and I was surprised to hear him express wonder at any of Nature's operations, for I thought that there were no secrets between them—that one spring day he took his gun and boat, and thought that he would have a little sport…†   (source)
  • Methuselah seems a school-boy.†   (source)
  • Yes, believe me or not, as you like; but truths are by no means as long-lived at Methuselah—as some folk imagine.†   (source)
  • There was Sir John's great carriage that would hold thirteen people; my Lord Methuselah's carriage, my Lord Bareacres' chariot, britzska, and fourgon, that anybody might pay for who liked.†   (source)
  • …the Cambridge lads and their pale-faced tutor avoided with maiden coyness; there were old Pall Mall loungers bound for Ems and Wiesbaden and a course of waters to clear off the dinners of the season, and a little roulette and trente-et-quarante to keep the excitement going; there was old Methuselah, who had married his young wife, with Captain Papillon of the Guards holding her parasol and guide-books; there was young May who was carrying off his bride on a pleasure tour (Mrs.†   (source)
  • …belonged to a Nabob from Calcutta and Jamaica enormously rich, and with whom he was engaged to travel; and at this moment a young gentleman who had been warned off the bridge between the paddle-boxes, and who had dropped thence on to the roof of Lord Methuselah's carriage, from which he made his way over other carriages and imperials until he had clambered on to his own, descended thence and through the window into the body of the carriage, to the applause of the couriers looking on.†   (source)
  • 5:25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.†   (source)
  • "By God, master," said Sancho, "the island that I cannot govern with the years I have, I'll not be able to govern with the years of Methuselah; the difficulty is that the said island keeps its distance somewhere, I know not where; and not that there is any want of head in me to govern it."†   (source)
  • 5:26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: 5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.†   (source)
  • 5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: 5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.†   (source)
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