The fifty-two-year-old Marshal Andre Massena had just taken over its command. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond the Sunrise]
How odd he must look: a fifty-two-year-old man, no longer svelte, adopting this dark-skinned girl from the tropics. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Matador’s Hotel] Reference
In Canada a scientist put a fifty-two-year-old woman identified only as Mary C. in a sensory-deprivation chamber for thirty-five days. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Art of Interrogation] Reference
A tanned and muscular fifty-two-year-old construction worker, Frank finally got around to broaching the subject after thirty minutes of small talk. From Wordnik.com. [THRIVING WITH HEART DISEASE] Reference
He had spent the day in New York with fifty-two-year-old Vera Shelby Todd, trailing after her as she took him on her endless hunt for Persian carpets. From Wordnik.com. [LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART] Reference
At the beginning of the novel in question, it is a fine June day in a great city, and a fifty-two-year-old woman named Clarissa goes shopping for flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf] Reference
To Lish, who was taken aback by the extravagance, Ray replied that his fifty-two-year-old sister-in-law Jerry Davis had had two heart attacks, so Why save it?. From Wordnik.com. [Raymond Carver] Reference
I don't think I'd ever be quite so cynical as to say "This is a book for fifty-two-year-old white, suburban-dwelling owners of four cars," or anything like that. From Wordnik.com. [When the Earth Flexes Its Muscles] Reference
This was fifty-two-year-old Édouard Charton, a philanthropist who fervently believed in the goals of the Age of Enlightenment: equality, education, and respect for human dignity. From Wordnik.com. [Train-plane-beach books] Reference
It was late afternoon of the day after his meeting with Sammy Barber before fifty-two-year-old Douglas Langdon realized that the photograph he had snapped of Monica Farrell was missing. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of Your Smile] Reference
What I did not know was that at that very moment, in Sacramento, California—eight hundred miles away from my Arizona home—a beautiful fifty-two-year-old woman was doing exactly that. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision Board Book] Reference
Faris Jamil, a fifty-two-year-old merchant who had shown me around the first time I visited Aita Shaab, was still living in the unfinished basement of his almost fully rebuilt family home. From Wordnik.com. [A Privilege to Die] Reference
We sat silent for some minutes - the widow of a Tulsa oilman with ample funds and a fifty-two-year-old journalist with a comfortable income - and we were both struck by the precariousness of Ricardo's financial condition. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico]
Like the majority of Americans, fifty-two-year-old nightclub owner Ruby was distraught over the assassination of President Kennedy, but the fact that it had occurred in his city seemed to make it all the more personal to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Kennedy Detail] Reference
This included fifty-two-year-old socialist Francois Mitterrand, who was still in line behind sixty-one-year-old Pierre Mendes-France, the leftist former head of government who had earned the contempt of the Right when he withdrew the French military from France's Vietnam war. From Wordnik.com. [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]
The first thing he did was to announce the names of his legates: Lucius Quinctius, that fifty-two-year-old nuisance to consuls and law courts; Marcus Mummius, almost of praetor's age; Quintus Marcius Rufus, somewhat younger but in the Senate; Gaius Pomptinus, a young Military Man; and Quintus Arrius, the only veteran of the war against Spartacus whom Crassus cared to keep. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
It also follows the story of a fifty-two-year-old tailor from the West African nation of Guinea. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy Now!] Reference
The fifty-two-year-old died 11 days later, and tests showed he had the diabetes drug Glyburide in his system. From Wordnik.com. [Eyewitness News] Reference
The fifty-two-year-old Roeder won't have parole eligibility for at least fifty years, the maximum allowed by law. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy Now!] Reference
Up in her bedroom window Sally Carrol Happer rested her nineteen-year-old chin on a fifty-two-year-old sill and watched. From Wordnik.com. [Flappers and Philosophers] Reference
Another service asked for help with a fifty-two-year-old man with diabetes, coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, chronic kidney failure, severe obesity, a stroke, and now a strangulating groin hernia. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
According to Kramer, it was the death of Mickey Ruskin, owner of Max's Kansas City and Lee's longtime meal ticket, that ultimately led to her departure from Gotham and arrival in Dallas as a fifty-two-year-old indigent. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It's a mild June day in New York, and Mark Milano, a fit fifty-two-year-old health educator with the aids Community Research Initiative of America, is dressed for comfort in running shoes, grey chinos, and a striped short-sleeved shirt. From Wordnik.com. [The Walrus Magazine] Reference
The son of a fifty-two-year-old Austrian customs official, Alois Schickelgruber Hitler, and his third wife, a young peasant girl, Klara Poelzl, both from the backwoods of lower Austria, the young Hitler was a resentful, discontented child. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
Ernest C.T. T.oubridge was a genial, rugged, fifty-two-year-old seaman whose thick mane of white hair had earned him the sailors’ nickname the Silver King. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
A heartwarming story it was, too, at least as depicted in the Times-Picayune, which told of how Keith Plessy, a fifty-two-year-old New Orleans bellhop and great-grandson of Homer Plessy’s first cousin, collaborated with Phoebe Ferguson, great-great-granddaughter of John Howard Ferguson, the judge who ruled to uphold the city’s “separate car” laws, to make sure the city finally commemorated the historic spot. From Wordnik.com. [The Lampshade] Reference
"Dr. Rax was a healthy fifty-two-year-old. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lines]
The fifty-two-year-old Italian American from Philadelphia laughed loudly. From Wordnik.com. [Consent to Kill]
There is a world of difference between a twenty-year-old £µ©λing a fifty-year-old and a sixteen-year-old £µ©λing a fifty-two-year-old. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Mark (Pederast) Foley’s IM transcripts « raincoaster] Reference
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