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  • Superannuated vaudevillians, they turn up when the action moves from bicycle racing in 1960s France to bicyclist-chasing in Belleville, an American city that's an amalgam of New York, Montreal, Mont Saint-Michel, France, and the metropolis from "Metropolis."

    Crash of 'The Titans' Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • Superannuated vaudevillians, they turn up when the action moves from bicycle racing in 1960s France to bicyclist-chasing in Belleville, an American city that's an amalgam of New York, Montreal, Mont Saint-Michel, France, and the metropolis from "Metropolis."

    Crash of 'The Titans' Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • Superannuated vaudevillians, they turn up when the action moves from bicycle racing in 1960s France to bicyclist-chasing in Belleville, an American city that's an amalgam of New York, Montreal, Mont Saint-Michel, France, and the metropolis from "Metropolis."

    Crash of 'The Titans' Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • "Superannuated," Jim had said, and there was truth in it; Delacroix looked as if he had been around since the Ice Age—the earlier one.

    Doctor’s Orders Diane Duane 2000

  • Superannuated stayat-homes muttered into their beer that the reduction of Finiah couldn't possibly compare to certain ancient affrays in which they had participated during the good old days.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • He belonged to that colony of the Superannuated who had settled down in this pleasant place to wearily drag out the end of their days.

    Good Blood Ernst Von Wildenbruch

  • Superannuated, and rapidly failing, she had been installed by my father in a comfortable room in the house of a sort of cousin of hers, a worthy and "well-to-do" woman of color, where she might be cheered by the visits of the more respectable people of her own class, -- darkies of substantial character and of the first families, among whom she was esteemed as a mother in Israel.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

  • He describes his feelings on this happy release from business, in his essay on _The Superannuated Man_.

    English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

  • Superannuated Undertakers 'Orphan Society, they had been able to stay out and defy the Company, receiving all the while, every man of them,

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 31, 1891 Various

  • It's a moral certainty that if he hadn't met you he would have left all his money to a Home for Superannuated Caddies or a Fund for Supplying the Deserving Poor with Niblicks.

    Uneasy Money 1928

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