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hoary as in:  tells hoary stories

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  • The politician’s speech was filled with hoary clichés that failed to inspire the crowd.
    hoary = trite due to familiarity
  • Once in a while he'd come out with some hoary maxim, served up with a wry irony that did nothing to reduce the boredom quotient;   (source)
  • It isn't just setting, that hoary old English class topic.   (source)
    hoary = old
  • Having served enough time in Atlanta with her volunteer work, Mother has moved to the Georgia coast, to a hamlet of hoary little brick houses on Sanderling Island.   (source)
    hoary = old-fashioned
  • The game served as a proxy for the hoary Mississippi class struggle, between the white folks who wore shirts with collars on them and the white folks who did not.   (source)
    hoary = old
  • While the cliche "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" had been echoing in my brain over the almost six years of waiting, I had to consider the truth it offers, like most hoary, oft-repeated ideas.   (source)
    hoary = trite due to familiarity
  • Linguists regard this as a hoary myth, because the "old-time" words or expressions offered as evidence do not add up to what is claimed.   (source)
    hoary = old
  • She made such a report of me to her father, that Mr. Oliver himself accompanied her next evening — a tall, massive-featured, middle-aged, and grey-headed man, at whose side his lovely daughter looked like a bright flower near a hoary turret.   (source)
  • Leviathan maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be hoary.   (source)
    hoary = ancient
  • He memorized these hoary locutions, tossed them left-handed into conversation: wheelwright lodestone, saturnine, adamant.   (source)
    hoary = trite due to familiarity
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  • I was yet enjoying the calm prospect and pleasant fresh air, yet listening with delight to the cawing of the rooks, yet surveying the wide, hoary front of the hall, and thinking what a great place it was for one lonely little dame like Mrs. Fairfax to inhabit, when that lady appeared at the door.   (source)
    hoary = old
  • He expressed once, and but once in my hearing, a strong sense of the rugged charm of the hills, and an inborn affection for the dark roof and hoary walls he called his home; but there was more of gloom than pleasure in the tone and words in which the sentiment was manifested; and never did he seem to roam the moors for the sake of their soothing silence — never seek out or dwell upon the thousand peaceful delights they could yield.   (source)
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hoary as in:  hoary old man

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  • The hoary old woman was wrinkled and frail, but she still had a sharp mind.
    hoary = old and gray
  • A supermarket deli tray full of hoary carrots and gnarled celery and a semeny dip sits untouched on a coffee table, cigarettes littered throughout like bonus vegetable sticks.   (source)
    hoary = old
  • Her whole body racked with sobs, she embraced the tree as if it were not a tree, as if it were her long-lost father, a grandfather she had never known, a great-grandfather, a great-great-grandfather, a hoary old man come to her from the depths of time to offer her his face in the form of rough tree bark.   (source)
    hoary = appearing old and gray
  • At every fork, they kept to the right, making camp at —night amidst the hollows of hoary trees, whose great roots provided shelter from the wind.   (source)
  • For that much Jon was grateful …. but he did not believe for a moment that two such hoary old warriors would have hied down from their hills for that alone.   (source)
  • Now, during a conversation of some two or three moments between the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale and this excellent and hoary-bearded deacon, it was only by the most careful self-control that the former could refrain from uttering certain blasphemous suggestions that rose into his mind, respecting the communion-supper.   (source)
    hoary = gray
  • "Speak, thou vast and venerable head," muttered Ahab, "which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee."   (source)
    hoary = old (as with gray hair)
  • Mr. Kenneth says he would wager his mare that he'll outlive any man on this side Gimmerton, and go to the grave a hoary sinner; unless some happy chance out of the common course befall him.   (source)
    hoary = old and gray
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hoary as in:  hoary leaves

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  • The hoary stems of the thistle plant were prickly and tough, their whitish hairs providing a stark contrast to the vibrant purple flowers.
  • The root of the hoary, decumbent, and less elegant, but larger flowered Hedysarum mackenzii is poisonous, and nearly killed an old Indian woman at Fort Simpson, who had mistaken it for that of the preceding species.   (source)
  • He lifted his heavy eyes and saw leaning over him a huge willow-tree, old and hoary.   (source)
    hoary = a type with fine grayish or whitish hairs on the leaves
  • They dangled under ash and alder, beech and birch, larch and elm, hoary old willows and stately chestnut trees.   (source)
    hoary = with fine grayish/whitish hairs that cover its leaves
  • At the edge of the heath stood a clump of hoary juniper bushes.   (source)
    hoary = with fine grayish/whitish hairs that cover its leaves and branches
  • Heed no hoary willow!   (source)
    hoary = a type with fine grayish or whitish hairs on the leaves
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hoary as in:  hoary ashes

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  • Hoary cobwebs covered the entrance of the cave.
  • The ground was thinly covered in snow and the wind blew hoary gray flakes across the glass.   (source)
  • And the wide difference that still lay between him and the great house seemed suddenly impassable as the moat full of water in front of him, and as high as the wall beyond, stretching up straight and hoary before him.   (source)
  • For the great plateful of blue water was before her; the hoary Lighthouse, distant, austere, in the midst; and on the right, as far as the eye could see, fading and falling, in soft low pleats, the green sand dunes with the wild flowing grasses on them, which always seemed to be running away into some moon country, uninhabited of men.   (source)
  • It was a very grey day; a most opaque sky, "onding on snaw," canopied all; thence flakes felt at intervals, which settled on the hard path and on the hoary lea without melting.   (source)
  • I had not seen a coal fire, since I had left England three years ago: though many a wood fire had I watched, as it crumbled into hoary ashes, and mingled with the feathery heap upon the hearth, which not inaptly figured to me, in my despondency, my own dead hopes.   (source)
  • "You live just below — do you mean at that house with the battlements?" pointing to Thornfield Hall, on which the moon cast a hoary gleam, bringing it out distinct and pale from the woods that, by contrast with the western sky, now seemed one mass of shadow.   (source)
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  • They were enormous, pungent, and hoary beasts, and Ishmael and Hatsue stopped to stare at one rubbing his hindquarters against a fence post.†   (source)
  • Maege is a hoary old snark, stubborn, short-tempered, and willful.†   (source)
  • During the Christmas concert, I look up and see Grandpa Nakane coming down the aisle of the church to sit in front, his hoary white eyebrows lifted high so he can see better.†   (source)
  • "Woe, woe, woe!" cries Hrothgar, hoary with winters, peeking in, wide-eyed, from his bedroom in back.†   (source)
  • Had she any teeth or ever straightened her back, she would have been the most gorgeous thing alive, worthy of her sons' worship for her beauty alone, if not for the absolute freedom she allowed them (known in some quarters as neglect) and the weight of her hoary knowledge.†   (source)
  • They smelt that old obscene stink of darkness, that old slavery smell, worse than the rank halitosis of hoary death.†   (source)
  • Great trees, bare and silent, stood, rank on rank, with tangled bough and hoary head; their twisted roots were buried in the long green grass.†   (source)
  • It consisted mostly of a hoary midnight-blue Japanese kimono.†   (source)
  • All things vanished within
    The snowy murk—white, hoary.†   (source)
  • Bennington represented a dying part of the South: the venerable, hoary-maned administrator who tended his district with the same care and paternalism the master once rendered to his plantation.†   (source)
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  • In the center of three light-gold rings across the water was lifted first an old hoary head ("It has whiskers!" a voice cried) and then in an undulation loop after loop and hump after hump of a long dark body, until there were a dozen rings of ripples, one behind the other, stretching all across the river, like a necklace.†   (source)
  • By skillful political maneuvers, he prevented acceptance of South Carolina's invitation, causing Senator Iverson of Georgia to call for some "Texan Brutus" to "rise and rid his country of the hoary-headed incubus."†   (source)
  • The hoary old warrior looked as if he had bitten into something he did not like the taste of.†   (source)
  • You will not appease him with the offer of two hoary old brigands and the second son of the fattest man in the Seven Kingdoms.†   (source)
  • Great ilexes of huge girth stood dark and solemn in wide glades with here and there among them hoary ash-trees.†   (source)
  • I saw this specter of white anger coming from the savage gray and meanwhile shot northward, in a great hurry to get to Bruges and out of this line of white which was like eternity opening up right beside destructions of the modern world, hoary and grumbling.†   (source)
  • Unperturbed, relieved, he turned his face toward the vast bleak earth, gray and hoary in the iron grip of winter.†   (source)
  • They cling, gently, to the hoary stone.†   (source)
  • Age makes hoary that gateway.†   (source)
  • Despite its fringe of green it was hoary with age.†   (source)
  • The night was very large, and very strange, stretching its hoary distances infinitely.†   (source)
  • Like the one I had at first seen in the hold, they all bore about them the marks of a hoary old age.†   (source)
  • The bent and hoary man was satisfied, and so apparently was Henery Fray.†   (source)
  • On the one hand was a sacred grave, on the other hoary locks.†   (source)
  • Casterbridge is a old, hoary place o' wickedness, by all account.†   (source)
  • "I'd rather have it in my bed than a clap of thunder!" the words came tumbling from Cottard, who had for some time been waiting in vain until Forcheville should pause for breath, so that he might get in his hoary old joke, a chance for which might not, he feared, come again, if the conversation should take a different turn; and he produced it now with that excessive spontaneity and confidence which may often be noticed attempting to cover up the coldness, and the slight flutter of emotion, inseparable from a prepared recitation.†   (source)
  • Beyond the shadow of the ship,
    I watched the water-snakes:
    They moved in tracks of shining white,
    And when they reared, the elfish light
    Fell off in hoary flakes.†   (source)
  • Martin had to wait till three respectful patients had been received by Dr. Winter, a hoary man with a sympathetic bass voice, before he was admitted to the consultation-room.†   (source)
  • What she would say was that she hated frumps, fogies, failures, like himself presumably; thought people had no right to slouch about with their hands in their pockets; must do something, be something; and these great swells, these Duchesses, these hoary old Countesses one met in her drawingroom, unspeakably remote as he felt them to be from anything that mattered a straw, stood for something real to her.†   (source)
  • Then merry of heart was the meter of treasures,
    The hoary-man'd war-renown'd, help now he trow'd in;
    The lord of the Bright-Danes on Beowulf hearken'd,
    The folk-shepherd knew him, his fast-ready mind.†   (source)
  • The air, afflicted to pallor with the hoary multitudes that infested it, twisted and spun them eccentrically, suggesting an achromatic chaos of things.†   (source)
  • Speculative philosophers drew along, not always with wrinkled foreheads and hoary hair as in framed portraits, but pink-faced, slim, and active as in youth; modern divines sheeted in their surplices, among whom the most real to Jude Fawley were the founders of the religious school called Tractarian; the well-known three, the enthusiast, the poet, and the formularist, the echoes of whose teachings had influenced him even in his obscure home.†   (source)
  • love which prevails, and millions of years ago, her lover, who had been dead these centuries, had walked, she crooned, with her in May; but in the course of ages, long as summer days, and flaming, she remembered, with nothing but red asters, he had gone; death's enormous sickle had swept those tremendous hills, and when at last she laid her hoary and immensely aged head on the earth, now become a mere cinder of ice, she implored the Gods to lay by her side a bunch of purple-heather, there on her high burial place which the last rays of the last sun caressed; for then the pageant of the universe would be over.†   (source)
  • There then was wounden gold on the wain laden
    Untold of each kind, and the Atheling borne,
    The hoary of warriors, out on to Whale-ness.†   (source)
  • Then the lord king, the wise,
    The hoary of war-folk, was harmed of mood
    When his elder of thanes and he now unliving,
    The dearest of all, he knew to be dead.†   (source)
  • There then was Ongentheow by the swords' edges, 2960
    The blent-hair'd, the hoary one, driven to biding,
    So that the folk-king fain must he take
    Sole doom of Eofor.†   (source)
  • Then turn'd he in haste to where Hrothgar was sitting
    Right old and all hoary mid the host of his earl-folk:
    Went the valour-stark; stood he the shoulders before
    Of the Dane-lord: well could he the doughty ones' custom.†   (source)
  • Then he bade them bear in the boar-shape, the head-sign,
    The battle-steep war-helm, the byrny all hoary,
    The sword stately-good, and spell after he said:
    This raiment of war Hrothgar gave to my hand,
    The wise of the kings, and therewithal bade me,
    That I first of all of his favour should flit thee;
    He quoth that first had it King Heorogar of old,
    The king of the Scyldings, a long while of time;
    But no sooner would he give it unto his son, 2160
    Heoroward the well-whet, though kind to him were he,
    This weed of the breast.†   (source)
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    There were many about there who bound up his kinsman,
    Upraised him swiftly when room there was made them,
    That the slaughter-stead there at the stour they might wield,
    That while when was reaving one warrior the other:
    From Ongentheow took he the iron-wrought byrny,
    The hard-hilted sword, with his helm all together:
    The hoary one's harness to Hygelac bare he;
    The fret war-gear then took he, and fairly behight him
    Before the folk due gifts, and even so did it;
    Gild he gave for that war-race, the lord of the Geats, 2990
    The own son of Hrethel, when home was he come,
    To Eofor and Wulf gave he over-much treasure,
    To them either he gave an hundred o†   (source)
  • Then was the hilt golden to the ancient of warriors,
    The hoary of host-leaders, into hand given,
    The old work of giants; it turn'd to the owning,
    After fall of the Devils, of the lord of the Danes, 1680
    That work of the wonder-smith, syth gave up the world
    The fierce-hearted groom, the foeman of God,
    The murder-beguilted, and there eke his mother;
    Unto the wielding of world-kings it turned,
    The best that there be betwixt of the sea-floods
    Of them that in Scaney dealt out the scat.†   (source)
  • Never can there come fog too thick, never can there come mud and mire too deep, to assort with the groping and floundering condition which this High Court of Chancery, most pestilent of hoary sinners, holds this day in the sight of heaven and earth.†   (source)
  • And when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave a hoary corpse, followed by Faith, an aged woman, and children and grandchildren, a goodly procession, besides neighbors not a few, they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his dying hour was gloom.†   (source)
  • The larger, ragged, and fantastic branches still obtruded themselves abroad, while the white and hoary trunk stood naked and tempest-riven.†   (source)
  • Before he had found a stock in all respects suitable the city of Kouroo was a hoary ruin, and he sat on one of its mounds to peel the stick.†   (source)
  • The company, tremulous as the leaves of a tree, when all are shaking together, drew nearer, and perceived that there was an unnatural distortion in the fixedness of Colonel Pyncheon's stare; that there was blood on his ruff, and that his hoary beard was saturated with it.†   (source)
  • Do you know that, within one day, she will be sacrificed, as sure as you stand there alive, to a hoary wretch—a devil born and bred, and grey in devils' ways?'†   (source)
  • Turning his veiled face from one group to another, he paid due reverence to the hoary heads, saluted the middle aged with kind dignity as their friend and spiritual guide, greeted the young with mingled authority and love, and laid his hands on the little children's heads to bless them.†   (source)
  • She was a second wife, many years the junior of her husband; and the hoary-headed miscreant was enough to try the patience of a wiser and better woman.†   (source)
  • Hurry laughed at the suggestion, and, as it soon appeared, with reason; for the fringe of bushes immediately on the shore of the lake was no sooner passed, than the adventurers found themselves in a narrow stream, of a sufficient depth of limpid water, with a strong current, and a canopy of leaves upheld by arches composed of the limbs of hoary trees.†   (source)
  • They continued to hurry him along, travelling at a very rapid rate, until, at the end of an avenue of huge trees, arose Torquilstone, now the hoary and ancient castle of Reginald Front-de-Boeuf.†   (source)
  • Imaginative inhabitants, who would have felt an unpleasantness at the discovery of a comparatively modern skeleton in their gardens, were quite unmoved by these hoary shapes.†   (source)
  • Down in the cellars, as up in the bed-chambers, old objects that he well remembered were changed by age and decay, but were still in their old places; even to empty beer-casks hoary with cobwebs, and empty wine-bottles with fur and fungus choking up their throats.†   (source)
  • I will give the hoary bigot no advantage over me; and for Rebecca, she hath not merited at my hand that I should expose rank and honour for her sake.†   (source)
  • And there lay the hoary head of good Father Hooper upon the death pillow, with the black veil still swathed about his brow, and reaching down over his face, so that each more difficult gasp of his faint breath caused it to stir.†   (source)
  • At first it looked like a vast blue fort or Valhalla; but when they began to tuck the coarse meadow hay into the crevices, and this became covered with rime and icicles, it looked like a venerable moss-grown and hoary ruin, built of azure-tinted marble, the abode of Winter, that old man we see in the almanac—his shanty, as if he had a design to estivate with us.†   (source)
  • By daylight, the bower of Oak's new-found mistress, Bathsheba Everdene, presented itself as a hoary building, of the early stage of Classic Renaissance as regards its architecture, and of a proportion which told at a glance that, as is so frequently the case, it had once been the memorial hall upon a small estate around it, now altogether effaced as a distinct property, and merged in the vast tract of a non-resident landlord, which comprised several such modest demesnes.†   (source)
  • This night it shall be granted you to know their secret deeds: how hoary-bearded elders of the church have whispered wanton words to the young maids of their households; how many a woman, eager for widows' weeds, has given her husband a drink at bedtime and let him sleep his last sleep in her bosom; how beardless youths have made haste to inherit their fathers' wealth; and how fair damsels—blush not, sweet ones—have dug little graves in the garden, and bidden me, the sole guest to an infant's funeral.†   (source)
  • Baker Farm Sometimes I rambled to pine groves, standing like temples, or like fleets at sea, full-rigged, with wavy boughs, and rippling with light, so soft and green and shady that the Druids would have forsaken their oaks to worship in them; or to the cedar wood beyond Flint's Pond, where the trees, covered with hoary blue berries, spiring higher and higher, are fit to stand before Valhalla, and the creeping juniper covers the ground with wreaths full of fruit; or to swamps where the usnea lichen hangs in festoons from the white spruce trees, and toadstools, round tables of the swamp gods, cover the ground, and more beautiful fungi adorn the stumps, lik†   (source)
  • Rich possessions are there I left behind when I was mad enough to come here; now I take home gold and ruddy bronze, and women belted luxuriously, and hoary iron, all that came to me here.†   (source)
  • Prizes out of the ships, caldrons and tripods, horses and mules and oxen he supplied, and softly belted girls, and hoary iron.†   (source)
  • He lulls the winds and sifts white flakes in stillness hour by hour until hilltop and foreland are all hid as are the farmers' meadowlands and fields, while snow comes down over the hoary sea, on harbors and on shores.†   (source)
  • Honored criers throughout our town shall publish this command: old men with hoary brows, and striplings, all camp out tonight upon the ancient towers; women in every megaron kindle fires, and every sentry keep a steady watch against a night raid on the city, while my troops are in the field.†   (source)
  • The voice of dark age, of unlove, earth's fatigue made grave approach and painful, come from afar, from hoary mountains, called on good men and true.†   (source)
  • The learned prelate who administered the last comforts of holy religion to the hero martyr when about to pay the death penalty knelt in a most christian spirit in a pool of rainwater, his cassock above his hoary head, and offered up to the throne of grace fervent prayers of supplication.†   (source)
  • She is a hoary pandemonium of ills, enlarged glands, mumps, quinsy, bunions, hayfever, bedsores, ringworm, floating kidney, Derbyshire neck, warts, bilious attacks, gallstones, cold feet, varicose veins.†   (source)
  • 16:31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.†   (source)
  • and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?†   (source)
  • 41:32 He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.†   (source)
  • For thee, who mindful of th' unhonour'd Dead
    Dost in these lines their artless tale relate;
    If chance, by lonely contemplation led,
    Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate,
    Haply some hoary-headed swain may say,
    "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn
    Brushing with hasty steps the dews away
    To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.†   (source)
  • the quaint mazes in the wanton green, For lack of tread, are undistinguishable: The human mortals want their winter here; No night is now with hymn or carol blest:— Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound: And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose; And on old Hyem's thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set: the spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the maz'd world, By their increase, now knows not which is which: And this same progeny of evil†   (source)
  • His right hand held his bloody falchion bare, His left he twisted in his hoary hair; Then, with a speeding thrust, his heart he found: The lukewarm blood came rushing thro' the wound, And sanguine streams distain'd the sacred ground.†   (source)
  • *on the ground or in straw*
    We olde men, I dread, so fare we;
    Till we be rotten, can we not be ripe;
    We hop* away, while that the world will pipe; *dance
    For in our will there sticketh aye a nail,
    To have an hoary head and a green tail,
    As hath a leek; for though our might be gone,
    Our will desireth folly ever-in-one*: *continually
    For when we may not do, then will we speak,
    Yet in our ashes cold does fire reek.†   (source)
  • Before their eyes in sudden view appear
    The secrets of the hoary Deep—a dark
    Illimitable ocean, without bound,
    Without dimension; where length, breadth, and height,
    And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night
    And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold
    Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise
    Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.†   (source)
  • Heav'n heard his song, and hasten'd his relief, And chang'd to snowy plumes his hoary hair, And wing'd his flight, to chant aloft in air.†   (source)
  • a covenant never to destroy
    The earth again by flood; nor let the sea
    Surpass his bounds; nor rain to drown the world,
    With man therein or beast; but, when he brings
    Over the earth a cloud, will therein set
    His triple-coloured bow, whereon to look,
    And call to mind his covenant: Day and night,
    Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost,
    Shall hold their course; till fire purge all things new,
    Both Heaven and Earth, wherein the just shall dwell.†   (source)
  • His head with olive crown'd, his hand a censer bears, His hoary beard and holy vestments bring His lost idea back: I know the Roman king.†   (source)
  • Umbro the priest the proud Marrubians led, By King Archippus sent to Turnus' aid, And peaceful olives crown'd his hoary head.†   (source)
  • Wrapp'd in amaze, the matrons wildly stare: Then Pyrgo, reverenc'd for her hoary hair, Pyrgo, the nurse of Priam's num'rous race: "No Beroe this, tho' she belies her face!†   (source)
  • With dust he sprinkled first his hoary head; Then both his lifted hands to heav'n he spread; Last, the dear corpse embracing, thus he said: "What joys, alas!†   (source)
  • A sordid god: down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncomb'd, unclean; His eyes, like hollow furnaces on fire; A girdle, foul with grease, binds his obscene attire.†   (source)
  • Pausing at ev'ry pace, in sorrow drown'd, Betwixt their arms he sinks upon the ground; Where grov'ling while he lies in deep despair, He beats his breast, and rends his hoary hair.†   (source)
  • Let her care The solemn rites of sacrifice prepare; The sheep, and all th' atoning off'rings bring, Sprinkling her body from the crystal spring With living drops; then let her come, and thou With sacred fillets bind thy hoary brow.†   (source)
  • Propp'd on a staff, she takes a trembling mien: Her face is furrow'd, and her front obscene; Deep-dinted wrinkles on her cheek she draws; Sunk are her eyes, and toothless are her jaws; Her hoary hair with holy fillets bound, Her temples with an olive wreath are crown'd.†   (source)
  • Anius, the priest and king, with laurel crown'd, His hoary locks with purple fillets bound, Who saw my sire the Delian shore ascend, Came forth with eager haste to meet his friend; Invites him to his palace; and, in sign Of ancient love, their plighted hands they join.†   (source)
  • Night, Erebus, and Chaos she proclaims, And threefold Hecate, with her hundred names, And three Dianas: next, she sprinkles round With feign'd Avernian drops the hallow'd ground; Culls hoary simples, found by Phoebe's light, With brazen sickles reap'd at noon of night; Then mixes baleful juices in the bowl, And cuts the forehead of a newborn foal, Robbing the mother's love.†   (source)
  • "And I, whose welfare in my father lies," Ascanius adds, "by the great deities, By my dear country, by my household gods, By hoary Vesta's rites and dark abodes, Adjure you both, (on you my fortune stands; That and my faith I plight into your hands,) Make me but happy in his safe return, Whose wanted presence I can only mourn; Your common gift shall two large goblets be Of silver, wrought with curious imagery, And high emboss'd, which, when old Priam reign'd, My conqu'ring sire at sack'd Arisba gain'd; And more, two tripods cast in antic mold, With two great talents of the finest gold; Beside a costly bowl, ingrav'd with art, Which Dido gave, when first she gave her heart.†   (source)
  • Old Butes' form he took, Anchises' squire, Now left, to rule Ascanius, by his sire: His wrinkled visage, and his hoary hairs, His mien, his habit, and his arms, he wears, And thus salutes the boy, too forward for his years: "Suffice it thee, thy father's worthy son, The warlike prize thou hast already won.†   (source)
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