autumn of life

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Here the Olympians and the Muses, with a grace that we fancy was Greek, lead a dance that traces the story of the spring, summer, and autumn of life.

From The Art of the Moving Picture by Lindsay, Vachel

Oh, why are we not as lovely in our autumn of life as nature is in hers?

From Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." by Wren, Jenny

There were several elderly persons, then in the autumn of life, and several were very young folks, scarcely able to walk, who now count many "daughters and sons of beauty."

From The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Hall, Basil

He did not yet seem to have passed beyond the autumn of life.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Bird, Robert Montgomery

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