| 单词 | the vale of years |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe vale of years d. the vale of years, the declining years of a person's life; old age. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [noun] eld971 old agec1330 agec1380 last agea1382 oldc1385 aldereldea1400 winterc1425 vilessec1430 annosityc1450 senectute1481 the black ox1546 golden years1559 years1561 great1587 afterlife1589 setting sun1597 antiquity1600 chair-daysa1616 the vale of yearsa1616 grandevity1623 green old age1634 eldship1647 senioritya1688 the other side of the hill1691 the decline of life1711 senectude1756 senility1791 senectitude1796 post-climacteric1826 Anno Domini1885 senium1911 golden age1946 a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) iii. iii. 270 Haply,..for I am declin'd Into the vale of yeares. 1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle iv. 39 A man that has the misfortune to decline into the vail of Years. 1769 Ld. Holland in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) II. 372 Yet I..am weak enough sometimes to think, that if Rigby..had pleased, I should have walked down the vale of years more easily. 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France in Wks. (1808) VIII. 310 That venerable potentate and pontiff, issunk deep into the vale of years. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 204 Mrs. Butler [was] a woman, and declined into the vale of years. < as lemmas |
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