The third system was that of the sexagenary cycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

The sexagenary cycle came into use in China in 623 B.C.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

I have another dear friend, who is a sexagenary bachelor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hyperion] Reference

Two cycles in the sexagenary system of reckoning constitute.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

The child, now a sexagenary, disclosed it to the municipiality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 The advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements] Reference

'And by my honour, sir,' replied the Baron, 'the lad can sometimes be as dowff as a sexagenary like myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference

` ` And by my honour, sir, '' replied the Baron, ` ` the lad can sometimes be as dowff as a sexagenary like myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waverley] Reference

Japan have exposed a mistake of at least 120 years connected with the earliest employment of the sexagenary cycle in Japan.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

Chinese astrology follows a system of elements and animals associated with the birth year and its alignment with the sexagenary cycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Releases | Press Release Distribution | Submit Press Release] Reference

Did he (who in his sexagenary ...) reflect or consider what my feelings must have been when wife and child and sister, and name and fame and country, were to be my sacrifice on his legal altar?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time] Reference

Comparison with Korean history goes to indicate that the reign is antedated by just 120 years, or two of the sexagenary cycles, but of course such a correction cannot be applied to every incident of the era.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

The basis of this belief are that, in A.D. 284, according to the Japanese chronology -- a date to which must be added two sexagenary cycles, bringing it to A.D. 404 -- the King of Kudara sent two fine horses to the Yamato sovereign, and the man who accompanied them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

Years are reckoned either from the beginning of the reign of the emperor, or from their place in the cycle of 60 years. the sexagenary cycle was devised by Ta-nao, minister of Hwang-ti, the sixty-first year of whose reign (2637 B.C.) was taken for the first cyclical sign.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

What a delectable tit-bit, consequently, for this appetite of the Parisians, must be a darling little philosopher in petticoats, (not quite sexagenary,) who dabbles in all sciences and arts, and is at the same time a pretender to the pretty affectations and hoydenish manners of a youthful belle!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference

This was one of those undying friendships founded on sexagenary ties which nothing can weaken, because at the bottom of such intimacies there are certain secrets of the human heart, delightful to guess at when we have the time, insipid to explain in twenty words, and which might make the text of a work in four volumes as amusing as the Doyen de Killerine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thirteen] Reference

The adoption of the Chinese sexagenary cycle is not unnatural, but again and again speeches made by Chinese sovereigns and sages are put into the mouths of Japanese monarchs as original utterances, so that without the Records for purposes of reference and comparison, even the small measure of solid ground that can be constructed would be cut from under the student's feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

‘And by my honour, sir,’ replied the Baron, ‘the lad can sometimes be as dowff as a sexagenary like myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley] Reference

“I would not,” said Lord Burghley, with emphasis, “if the suffrage of a sexagenary may have any weight; and it is plain that Willoughby would not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isabella. A Novel] Reference

The first day of the sexagenary cycle changed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Former Han Dynasty] Reference

Did he (who in his sexagenary ...) reflect or consider what my feelings must have been when wife and child and sister, and name and fame and country, were to be my sacrifice on his legal altar? ” and this at a moment when my health was declining, my fortune embarrassed, and my mind had been shaken by many kinds of disappointment? while I was yet young, and might have reformed what might be wrong in my conduct, and retrieved what was perplexing in my affairs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Byron Vindicated]