The universe makes no provision for a two-hundred-year-old man. From Wordnik.com. [Ringworld]
He was awfully damned spry for a two-hundred-year-old stroke victim. From Wordnik.com. [Water Sleeps]
Mr. Thomas acknowledges that discerning a two-hundred-year-old document's meaning is not always easy. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Constitution] Reference
It was a magnificent office, as befitted the number two partner of the nearly two-hundred-year-old firm. From Wordnik.com. [Malice] Reference
Many a lady sighed and compared him to Genji, the Shining Prince of Murasaki's two-hundred-year-old story. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
Our journey to a two-hundred-year-old farm in northern New England began a continent and several climate zones away. From Wordnik.com. [THE ARROWS COOKBOOK] Reference
Even he dared not look Eastward, of course; to the East was the Empire, and the two-hundred-year-old Emperor Charliss. From Wordnik.com. [Widows and Orphans] Reference
Gail, her husband, David, and their Airedale, Baxter, live in a two-hundred-year-old farmhouse in the Hudson River Valley. From Wordnik.com. [Gail Carson Levine biography] Reference
Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under a heavy mortgage. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]
Then the MGM lion roared, and a video copy of the two-hundred-year-old 'Wizard of Oz' began to play, to the cheers of the colonists. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Heorot]
Through the gaping hole of the shattered window, he could see the towering spires of the two-hundred-year-old Cathedral of St. John the Divine. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
Rainbow Roof house, so called from the delicious curve in its roof, is one of Hingham's prettiest two-hundred-year-old cottages, and Miss Susan. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference
Daniel and Charles rarely left their two-hundred-year-old mansion, and when they did, it was only to go shopping, or to a fancy restaurant downtown. From Wordnik.com. [Violets Are Blue]
In this much-deferred birth, as in so much else, Midnight's Children is reminiscent of that two-hundred-year-old masterpiece of digression, Tristram Shandy. From Wordnik.com. [On the Indian World-Mountain] Reference
It was a huge home stacked with a second-story veranda and dormers and chimneys that poked through the canopy of the two-hundred-year-old live oaks that shaded the roof. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Rainbow] Reference
When I put my finger to the hole they've cut for a dimmer switch in a wall of plaster stiffened with horsehair it seems I've scratched a two-hundred-year-old itch with a pink and a pink and a pinkie-pick. From Wordnik.com. [Slime Me] Reference
Although pursers were more accustomed to handling accounting machines (often, in Frank Lee's case, a two-hundred-year-old ivory abacus) than navigational instruments, they still had to pass exams in basic seamanship. From Wordnik.com. [2061 Odyssey Three]
He is a two-hundred-year-old Wookiee and a sight to behold. From Wordnik.com. [Circvs Maximvs] Reference
So a two-hundred-year-old Vulcan is what Leonard Nimoy is playing. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Book Resources] Reference
Sad Forebodings, the two-hundred-year-old print belongs to Goya's "Disasters of War" series. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes] Reference
Emma’s gallery was located in the historic district of Eastwick, in a two-hundred-year-old house. From Wordnik.com. [The One Week Wife]
"I've monitored the whole spectrum and the ether's dead except for our own stations and some two-hundred-year-old programs from Kulath. From Wordnik.com. [Reach For Tomorrow]
Poochie, Mrs. Crandle’s two-hundred-year-old toy poodle, was sitting on the porch across the street, conjuring up one last tinkle before he called it a night. From Wordnik.com. [Three to Get Deadly] Reference
The trick you described to me with the two-hundred-year-old vase and the college salt cellar is -- " he paused for emphasis -- -completely and utterly inexplicable. From Wordnik.com. [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]
We get two-hundred-year-old Persians made there. From Wordnik.com. [Persuader]
I've been busy chasing a two-hundred-year-old phantom charity. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Copper Tears]
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