venerableness

Example Sentences

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Long tenure of estates and little change in the people had given Richmond the venerableness we associate with age.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis)

There was nothing artificial or upstart about their beauty, but the venerableness of dignity.

From Stubble by Looms, George

This here venerableness, he declares a whole lot, is solely and absolutely due to the ondisputable fact that he ain’t never bathed in forty-two years.

From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by Winter, William West

The tenderness of youth and the venerableness of age were no protection.

From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park

History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern.

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David