Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur detective.

It is not exactly known when Wimsey recruited Miss Climpson to run an undercover employment agency for women, a means to garner information from the otherwise inaccessible world of spinsters and widows, but it is prior to Unnatural Death ( 1927 ), in which Miss Climpson assists Wimsey's investigation of the suspicious death of an elderly cancer patient.

The Rainbow Affair is notable for its thinly disguised cameo appearances by The Saint, Miss Marple, John Steed, Emma Peel, Tommy Hambledon ( at whose flat Solo and Ilya encounter Steed and Peel ), Neddie Seagoon, Father Brown, a retired, elderly Sherlock Holmes, and Dr. Fu Manchu.

Rawdon Crawley's elder brother inherits the Crawley estate from his elderly father, and he also inherits from his wealthy aunt, Miss Crawley.

The other tenants include Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, two elderly women retired from the stage, and Mr. Bobo, who is training a mouse circus.

Benaderet was a guest star in one episode as elderly Miss Lewis, a neighbor of the Ricardos.

* Miss Agatha Dawson ( deceased ) – a rich elderly cancer patient who died suddenly 3 years prior to the novel's action

The show followed the adventures of Doctor Snuggles, a kind old gentleman who lives in a comfortable home with his elderly housekeeper, Miss Nettles.

The sketch presents the 90th birthday of elderly upper-class Englishwoman Miss Sophie, who hosts a celebration dinner every year for her friends Mr Pommeroy, Mr Winterbottom, Sir Toby, and Admiral von Schneider.

Other works include The Trials and Tribulations of Staggerlee Booker T. Brown, One Monkey Don't Stop No Show a tragi-comic look at a middle-class black family, and A Lovesong for Miss Lydia, described by the New York Times as " a Pinteresque encounter of two elderly people.

Dicey asks her to stay temporarily to care for her ailing and elderly white friend and neighbor, Miss Em ( Ethel Barrymore ).

However, fortunately an elderly woman named Miss Miller adopts the three, and albeit at first the Chipettes do not get along with her, this changes after learning about Miss Miller's fondness for music.

Assuming the name " Bill Door ", he works as a farm hand for the elderly Miss Flitworth.

Early in the novel, Tiffany Aching leaves her home in the chalk country ( based on England ’ s chalk country ) to act as an apprentice and maid for the elderly witch Miss Level.

* Mr Weavall-An elderly towns person who relies upon Miss Level to help him.

In fact, Pip discovers that Miss Havisham's lessons have worked all too well on Estella ; when both are visiting the elderly woman, Miss Havisham makes gestures of affection towards her adopted daughter and is shocked that Estella is neither able nor willing to return them.

It features the elderly detective Miss Marple in a relatively minor, deus ex machina-like role, appearing more than halfway through and in only a handful of scenes.

* Miss Tweed – " The tweedy, elderly amateur detective " ( strangled by ornamental spear ) – Soprano

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times praised Holliday highly, stating, " the invincible Miss Holliday has dared to project her youthful figure and personality into the character shaped by Miss Hull " ( Josephene Hull, the elderly actress who played the role in the Broadway play ) and is " knocking the role completely dead.

His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.

The electric gadget is most helpful when there are many crowned teeth and in individuals who are elderly, bedfast with a chronic disease, or are handicapped by disorders such as cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy.

But Judge Marvin Jones, senior member of the Court, is an elderly gentleman who lives at the nearby Metropolitan Club and desires to walk to work.

Christie is purposefully vague, as Poirot is thought to be elderly even in the early Poirot novels, and in An Autobiography she admitted that she already imagined him to be an old man in 1920.

King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir.

The elderly woman then asks Fredrika a surprising question: " What is it all for?

His character is similar in look and voice to the Hank Hill character from Judge's subsequent series, King of the Hill since both were based on the same collection of elderly men from Judge's youth.

It has been argued that long-term use of hypnotics and overprescribing of these drugs represents an unjustifiable risk, especially to the elderly, and is harmful for the public health in general.

The success of gradual-tapering benzodiazepines is as great in the elderly as in younger people.

# When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.

To this day Gaelic is still the first language of a number of elderly Cape Bretoners.

As more than half of cancer patients are elderly, this adverse effect is only relevant for a minority of patients.

The process of transformation in the film is David Bowman transitioning through various human ages, first from young man to a dying elderly man, the latter finally transforming into a floating fetus.

Jacob M. Appel's widely anthologized short story, A Comparative Seismology, features a con artist who convinces an elderly woman that an apocalyptic earthquake is imminent.

Emperor Senka was elderly at the time of his enthronement ; and his reign is said to have endured for only three years.

In education, child nurseries, and elderly nurseries private competition is bottom-ranking compared to Sweden and most other Western countries.

The piece was an extravaganza in which the classical Greek gods, grown elderly, are temporarily replaced by a troupe of 19th-century actors and actresses, one of whom is the eponymous Thespis, the Greek father of the drama.

Ko-Ko loves his ward, Yum-Yum, but she loves a musician, who is really the son of the emperor of Japan ( the Mikado ), and who is in disguise to escape the attentions of the elderly and amorous Katisha.

Less common are bara — larger, often heavily muscled and sometimes hairy males, the yaoi counterpart of the " bear " in gay pornography — as well as oyaji ( meaning " daddy " or " uncle "), featuring middle-aged and elderly men ; these types are mainly found in material aimed at gay men, which may be called bara or ' men's love ' ( ML ), and is considered to be distinct from yaoi.

Although there is little surviving evidence of Irish culture, some elderly islanders can remember when the term " cilig " ( or killick ) was used to describe a common method of fishing for sea turtles by tricking them into swimming into prearranged nets ( this was dome by splashing a stone on a line-the cilig-into the water on the turtle's opposite side ).

Italian remains spoken as a second language by the elderly and educated and is also used in the new Federal Government of Somalia.

In general, extra B vitamins are just flushed out of the system, although everyone's limit of absorption is different in regards to B complex vitamins, and no one knows how much is needed on an individual basis of these vitamins …" The elderly and athletes may need to supplement their intake of B < sub > 12 </ sub > and other B vitamins due to problems in absorption and increased needs for energy production.