He, a stalwart, well-oiled quadragenarian, shone with sweat from his exertions, brandishing cooked pigs. From Wordnik.com. [Vailima Letters] Reference
Musil, who describes an incestuous passion between brother and sister, and Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, which describes the passion of a quadragenarian for. From Wordnik.com. [LOVE] Reference
Two hours later, what had been the erect image of a gigantic coal – porter turned miraculously white, was now no more than a medley of disjected members; the quadragenarian torso prone against the pedestal; the lascivious countenance leering down the kitchen stair; the legs, the arms, the hands, and even the fingers, scattered broadcast on the lobby floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
FIRMIANI, a respectable quadragenarian who in 1813 married the lady who afterwards became Mme. Octave de Camps. From Wordnik.com. [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1] Reference
Now when a woman decides to love a man for what she can get out of him it is better to take a sexagenarian Excellency than a quadragenarian secretary; there's more profit and less annoyance. From Wordnik.com. [Bureaucracy] Reference
Two hours later, what had been the erect image of a gigantic coal-porter turned miraculously white, was now no more than a medley of disjected members; the quadragenarian torso prone against the pedestal; the lascivious countenance leering down the kitchen stair; the legs, the arms, the hands, and even the fingers, scattered broadcast on the lobby floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
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