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The first son, who was but a year older, and was as dark as he was fair, had inherited-had seized-all his father's wealth.
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She dismissed the Legate Quintillus, who was so anxious to please me-I may thank that fool of a woman that he became my enemy-but he was older even than I, and she likes young men best.
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I'm just two-and-twenty-do I look older?
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It must have been a life of gross self-indulgence that had made the woman look at least ten years older.
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The fourth arrival, Mr. Dunnill, was older and less affable.
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Dostoevski, seven years older than Tolstoi, and three years younger than Turgenev, was not so much a Realist as a Naturalist; his chief interest was in the psychological processes of the unclassed.
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With the older man's influence, Gorki succeeded in obtaining the entree to the St. Petersburg magazines; and while the Russian critics were at a loss how to regard the new genius, the public went wild.
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As I grew older it did not pass off, but settled into a disease of the muscles.
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Because, mamma, God keeps hold of the other hand_." This is the beautiful lesson older ones, too, must learn, the simple, childlike confidence in God, which gives no fear, no alarm.
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The skeptic can never accuse little children of the same theories, philosophies, imaginations and beliefs which are characteristic of older heads.
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The replaced older file is renamed.
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And she gets worse as she gets older.
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He looked much older than his years, which were fifty-seven.
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Dawlish and Teignmouth have in themselves no charm; hotel and lodging-house, shamed by the soft pure light that falls about them, look blankly seaward, hiding what remains of farm or cottage in the older parts.
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Probably much older than she looked.
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It had made him, in aspect, more than a twelve-month older.
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The older officers, upon whom the responsibility was resting, sat upon the quarter-deck, smoking their pipes and discussing the situation.
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Eliza was only eighteen months older than he; they were the red-haired ones, and though they were as different in mind as it was possible to be, he seemed nearer Eliza than anyone else.
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Be that as it may, she will pass on to middle age; we shall grow older and seas and continents will divide our graves.
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Patsy seemed to have grown older since the autumn; he seemed like a doll out of which the sawdust was running, a poor shaking thing-a large head afloat on a weak neck.
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Example #1
He had lived abroad for some years in France and England.
Example #2
He was the second son of his father.
Example #3
She is like all the rest of them, and I of all men might have known it.
Example #4
Did she dishonor me there, I wonder?
Example #5
But I can't get on at home, and it's better for all that we should part.
Example #6
Miss Derrick again reflected for a moment before abruptly declaring herself.

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