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"Oldster" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cattle and houses. He fared thus a long while, till one day, as he was sitting in his shop, there came up an old man and long o' the beard, who laid down some silver and said, "Give me meat for this." He gave him his money s worth of flesh and the oldster went his ways. My brother examined the Shaykh's silver, and, seeing that the dirhams were white and bright, he set them in a place apart. The greybeard continued to return to the shop regularly for five months, and my brother ceased not to lay up all the coin he received ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... as will be seen in this second oldster; for though it prescribes Gloucester and Cheshire "'arf-and-'arf," both are essentially Cheddars. Gloucester has been called "a glorified Cheshire" and the latter has long been known as a peculiarly ...
— The Complete Book of Cheese • Robert Carlton Brown |
Words linked to "Oldster" : septuagenarian, antediluvian, back-number, dotard, senior citizen, old man, dodderer, fogy, greybeard, dodo, graybeard, old person, old boy, has-been, curmudgeon, sexagenarian, ancient, golden ager, old woman, octogenarian, nonagenarian |
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