A minute later, eighty-three-year-old William Borden had opened the door. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder] Reference
He is a guest on the Eyes of North Texas show, hosted by an eighty-three-year-old volunteer named Adell Campbell. From Wordnik.com. [FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER] Reference
We were filming in the grandstand at the track, and I had to leave the set for three hours to transform into the eighty-three-year-old Beryl. From Wordnik.com. [One From The Hart] Reference
Caitlin and eighty-three-year-old Anton Birnbaum, both red-eyed and exhausted, sat together on stiff leather Harvard chairs in Birnbaum's lower Wall Street office. From Wordnik.com. [Black Friday]
When Shirer answered the door his large, bright forehead and serene countenance made him appear intellectually and spiritually advanced, and I had an uncanny feeling that something of the Mahatma himself peered out at me through those eighty-three-year-old eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult] Reference
But Ray, whose literary reputation was much on his mind as he faced his mortality, found a greater thrill in being lionized alongside Harold Pinter and Stanley Elkin as well as previous Lions Sir Stephen Spender, whose literary memory reached back to the late 1920s, and eighty-three-year-old storytelling master and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer. From Wordnik.com. [Raymond Carver] Reference
Harriet Lyons, a white-haired interpreter with a ruby-slippers pin on her lapel, admitted to having flirted with an eighty-three-year-old visitor. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
As Agence France-Presse reports, the eighty-three-year-old master of geometric abstraction created a stained-glass window for a staircase in the museum's Richelieu wing. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
The Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry has chosen a new Colonel-in-Chief after more than thirty years with the eighty-three-year-old Lady Patricia Brabourne, Countess Mountbatten of Burma. From Wordnik.com. [PPCLI without Lady Patricia] Reference
Yan Ping, a barrel-chested, eighty-three-year-old, commands the center of the park’s roller rink, where Chinese disco music blares from a tinny PA system. From Wordnik.com. [Shock of Gray] Reference
“Why shouldn’t I believe the Germans made lampshades out of Jews?” said the then eighty-three-year-old Bauer when I reached him in his Jerusalem office. From Wordnik.com. [The Lampshade] Reference
Two years have passed since my now eighty-three-year-old mother saw penguins in Patagonia and danced giddily at her grandsons’ Led Zeppelin tribute concert. From Wordnik.com. [Shock of Gray] Reference
Still, the prosecutor had to fight for it, blood tests back then were pre-DNA, there was plenty of room for the defense to maneuver, and our eighty-three-year-old witness wore Coke-bottle glasses and failed to identify her own daughter in the courtroom.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Grave Denied]
None of Kaufman’s friends have read the book, not even the members of his lunch dub, which meets weekly at Hamburger Hamlet and includes Christopher Knopf, the seventy-nine-year-old former president of the Writers Guild, and Arthur Hiller, the eighty-three-year-old former president of the Academy. From Wordnik.com. [rebecca mead | the literary life – first at ninety « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
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