autumn of life
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The Sabbath is the savings-bank of human life, into which we deposit one day in seven to be repaid in the autumn of life with compound interest.—Selected.
From Thoughts for the Quiet Hour by Various
They had parted in the prime of youthful manhood—they met in the autumn of life; and the snows of winter had prematurely descended upon the head of the miser.
From Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers by Moodie, Susanna
But the probability was, that a man, advancing towards the autumn of life, and determined to marry, would rather recede from his engagement and seek another mate, than run the risk of such indefinite delay.
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 by Various
They were the contrast one sees so often in children kin-born of the summer and autumn of life.
From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by Miller, John Maurice
In the trefoil of this happy marriage, she was the first leaf which faded away in the autumn of life.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas
