autumn of life
Example Sentences
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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
In their unclouded springtime there is no place for the specters of doubt and fear which too often overshadow the autumn of life.
From Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life by Marden, Orison Swett
The past, with its dark shadows, sank into oblivion, and to the man who was already approaching the autumn of life sounded joyously the message that every blossom was repeating: Spring is here!
From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
This has been a foretaste of the autumn of life, and it has been very peaceful.
From We Two, a novel by Lyall, Edna
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
