hoary

• This whole process is hoary, antiquated, stupid and degrading. —  From the Bottom Up
• Indeed, "American political development ... has reopened the hoary issue of the compatibility of democracy and Christianity." —  Claremont.org
• Rose-trees--the botanists have falsely called the proudest of them; yet not trees in any wise, they, nor doomed to know the edge of axe at their {212} roots, nor the hoary waste of time, or searing thunderstroke, on sapless branches. —  Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
• There the newest and highest civilization comes face to face with the oldest on the earth--hoary with ages; greets it in China across the wide Pacific, and the circle of the globe is joined Now the civilization inaugurated upon our continent, in these United States, may be said to be, indeed is, the result of all that have preceded it. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• People are bowing in the presence of what they suppose to be the antiquity, that is, the hoary-headed wisdom, of the world. —  Our Unitarian Gospel

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