or maybe she liked men old enough to be her father ; ;

His reading ranged from Agatha Christie to The Book Of Job and he had an insatiable interest in his fellow-creatures, while his letters were full of gossip about new politicians and old men of letters with whom he had been intimately thrown six decades before.

`` Here are two old men, mad at each other and too proud to pick up the phone '', said a House Democratic leader.

Although his respect for Aristotle was diminished as his travels made it clear that much of Aristotle's geography was clearly wrong, when the old philosopher released his works to the public, Alexander complained " Thou hast not done well to publish thy acroamatic doctrines ; for in what shall I surpass other men if those doctrines wherein I have been trained are to be all men's common property?

Most of the slaves liberated by Abu Bakr were either women or old and frail men.

In the Sefer ha-Yarḥi, Abba Mari refers to the great caution shown by the rabbis of old as regards the teaching of the mysteries of philosophy, and recommended by men like the Hai Gaon, Maimonides, and David Kimhi.

In the pontificate of Pius II, their number, which had been fixed at twenty-four, had overgrown to such an extent as to diminish considerably the individual remuneration, and, as a consequence, able and competent men no longer sought the office, and hence the old style of writing and expediting the Bulls was no longer used, to the great injury of justice, the interested parties, and the dignity of the Holy See.

" One of his ideas is bringing back the characters as old men, instead of teenagers.

" I wouldn't mind doing something with them as these two dirty old men sitting on the couch.

He took his old nurse with him as a servant and they settled down to live in Enfide, near a church to St Peter, in some kind of association with " a company of virtuous men " who were in sympathy with his feelings and his views of life.

The old tactic of the banzai charge was also discontinued as wasteful of men and ineffective.

God orders Moses, in the wilderness of Sinai, to number those able to bear arms — of all the men " from twenty years old and upward ," and to appoint princes over each tribe.

The remainder of the crew, numbering over a thousand men, were killed, including Captain Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca and his twelve year old son Giocante.

It is a satanic counterfeit, an ecclesiastic tyranny over the souls of men .... It is the old harlot of the book of the Revelation —' the Mother of Harlots.

The Maritz Rebellion or the Boer Revolt or the Five Shilling Rebellion or the Third Boer War, occurred in South Africa in 1914 at the start of World War I, in which men who supported the re-creation of the old Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa because they did not want to side with the British against Germany so soon after they had had a long bloody war with the British.

: Listen to the words of the Great Mother ; she who of old was also called among men Artemis, Astarte, Athene, Dione, Melusine, Aphrodite, Cerridwen, Dana, Arianrhod, Isis, Bride, and by many other names.

It employs men and women 18 to 25 years old in a program to protect and enhance Washington's natural resources.

The thorough rejection stung ; Allen wrote to Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull, " How the old men came to reject me I cannot conceive inasmuch as I saved them from the incroachments of New York.

If the late queen would have believed her men of war as she did her scribes, we had in her time beaten that great empire in pieces and made their kings of figs and oranges as in old times.

In another study, data from a sample of white, Christian men and women were used to test the hypothesis that traditional, church-centered religiousness and de-institutionalized spiritual seeking are distinct ways of approaching fear of death in old age.

She wrote to a number of Goya's friends to complain of her exclusion but many of her friends were Goya's also and by then old men and had died, or died before they could reply.

So great was the error that of old befooled the minds of men.

Nevertheless, the old and the new men of the Foreign Legion fought and died in vicious battles on the Western front, including Belloy-en-Santerre during the Battle of the Somme, where Seeger, after being mortally wounded by machine-gun fire, cheered on the rest of his advancing battalion.

Without the presence of the king, the old institution of the Hoftag, the assembly of the realm's leading men, deteriorated.

Applicants were vetted for Nordic qualities — in Himmler's words, " like a nursery gardener trying to reproduce a good old strain which has been adulterated and debased ; we started from the principles of plant selection and then proceeded quite unashamedly to weed out the men whom we did not think we could use for the build-up of the SS.

Cadmus, the king of Thebes, abdicated due to his old age in favor of his grandson Pentheus.

Waller, with old connections to Cadmus, gathered the technology necessary for her movement.

The family moved to Tipton County, Tennessee, when Cadmus was only two years old.

Odysseus then summoned the spirit of the old prophet Tiresias for advice on how to appease the gods upon his return home.

Tiresias, the old, blind Theban prophet, is the only one not to suffer.

Ripe Geometric potters continued to employ the old syntax of ornaments and shapes and made use of the well-defined though limited range of motifs which they had inherited.

`` most orthodontic work is done on children between the ages of 10 and 14, though there have been patients as young as two and as old as 55 '', says Dr. Brodie.

But though Kimpton put Chicago in what he felt was working order, some old grads feel that it still needs the kind of lively teachers who filled it in the heady Hutchins era.

The prophet, though blind with old age, knew the wife of Jeroboam as soon as she approached, and under a divine impulse he announced to her that inasmuch as in Abijah alone of all the house of Jeroboam there was found " some good thing toward the Lord ," he only would come to his grave in peace.

Immediately after the election the two groups reunited, though Lloyd George declined to play much of a formal role in his old party.

By the autumn of 1855, the royal apartments were ready, though the tower was still under construction and the servants had to be lodged in the old house.

The Roman Breviary has undergone several revisions: The most remarkable of these is that by Francis Quignonez, cardinal of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ( 1536 ), which, though not accepted by Rome ( it was approved by Clement VII and Paul III, and permitted as a substitute for the unrevised Breviary, until Pius V in 1568 excluded it as too short and too modern, and issued a reformed edition ( Breviarium Pianum, Pian Breviary ) of the old Breviary ), formed the model for the still more thorough reform made in 1549 by the Church of England, whose daily morning and evening services are but a condensation and simplification of the Breviary offices.

These range in diameter from a few tens of meters up to about 300 km, and they range in age from recent times ( e. g. the Sikhote-Alin craters in Russia whose creation were witnessed in 1947 ) to more than two billion years, though most are less than 500 million years old because geological processes tend to obliterate older craters.

A disc with data packed slightly more densely is tolerated by most players ( though some old ones fail ).

The distinct rules of their order with regard to fasting are numerous, but not more severe than those of similar congregations, though much more so than is required by the old Benedictine rule.

In a letter to P. Schuyler Miller and John D. Clark in 1936 only three months before Howard's death, Conan is described as standing and weighing when he takes part in an attack on Venarium at only 15 years old, though being far from fully grown.

The terms of the work-to-rule were that staff refused to work with the new equipment ( though the old black and white equipment had been disposed of by then ) and therefore programmes were recorded and transmitted in black and white, including Coronation Street The dispute was resolved in early 1971 and the last black and white episode was broadcast on 8 February 1971.

The Japanese destroyer commander finished with, " Yesterday I looked at myself in a mirror for a long time ; I was disagreeably surprised to see my face thin, full of wrinkles, and as old as though I were fifty.

In the contest of wills between Hera and Zeus over whose candidate would be hero, fated to defeat the remaining creatures representing an old order and bring about the reign of the Twelve Olympians, Eurystheus was Hera's candidate and Heracles — though his name implies that at one archaic stage of myth-making he had carried " Hera's fame " — was the candidate of Zeus.

The game has been referred to officially as just Fudge ever since, though fans often still refer to it in the old manner as FUDGE.

An urban legend has it that the phrase refers to an old English law under which a man could legally beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb ( though no such law ever existed ).

Eventually, harpsichords came to be built with just a single case, though an intermediate stage also existed: the " false inner – outer ", which for purely aesthetic reasons was built to look as if the outer case contained an inner one, in the old style.

Usually, there is no trouble in saying that a little girl in 1920, for example, is the same as an old woman in 1998, even though they share a relatively small number of molecules in common.

But so much is written for the sake of proving that Jesus the Christ is the Son of God and His Apostle, being of old the Word, and appearing sometimes in the form of fire, and sometimes in the likeness of angels ; but now, by the will of God, having become man for the human race, He endured all the sufferings which the devils instigated the Jews to inflict upon Him ; who, though they have it expressly affirmed in the writings of Moses, “ And the angel of God spake to Moses in a flame of fire in a bush, and said, I am that I am, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ,” yet maintain that He who said this was the Father and Creator of the universe.

Harris believes that the tradition that John lived to old age in Ephesus developed in the late 2nd century, although the tradition does appear in the last chapter of the gospel, though this debatable tradition assumes that John the Evangelist, John the Apostle, the Beloved Disciple mentioned in John 21 and sometimes also John the Presbyter are the same person.

Col. Monk, though a hero to the restoration of King Charles II, was also treacherously disloyal to the Long Parliament, to his oath to the present Parliament, and the old republican cause.

Soon after he was born, Ferrigno says he believes he suffered a series of ear infections and lost 75 to 80 % of his hearing, though his condition was not diagnosed until he was three years old.

Even though it is a very old industry, meat production continues to be shaped strongly by the rapidly evolving demands of customers.

" The Great Montezuma was about forty years old, of good height, well proportioned, spare and slight, and not very dark, though of the usual Indian complexion.

These " separated " ( Syriac: da-Mepharreshe ) gospels, though old, have been shown to be later than the Diatessaron.