time of life

• “For a man to lose his all at his time of life would have been hard enough anywhere; but it was trebly hard to meet with such a trial in Riggan.”

  That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story

• “At the time of life when people recognize the fact that their forces are waning, and that a well-earned period of rest has arrived, Mrs. Croly set for herself the last task of her busy life.”

  Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly

• “Long after the time of life at which other species of rats are nibbling an independent way through the world, U. BANFIELDI clings resolutely to its parent, obtaining from her its sole sustenance.”

  The Confessions of a Beachcomber

• “As Smith said one evening at Lord Shelburne's to Dr. Price, who asked him about Hume's health, it seemed as if Hume was one of those persons who after a certain time of life go down not gradually but by jumps. [”

  Life of Adam Smith

• “O, Gentlemen, the time of life is short, to spend that shortness basely were too long: though life did ride upon a dial's point, still ending at the arrival of an hour.”

  The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. I

• “The first you'ld not like; indeed, for a person at your time of life it would be too fatiguing.”

  The True George Washington

• “May-bough has ever been adorned my heart magnifies thee to-day with a spiritual song; and I pray thee, blessed May-bough, to help me so to praise thee in this short time of life that I may feed upon thy living fruit throughout eternity.”

  The Life of Blessed Henry Suso by Himself.

• “They were written at a time of life when I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.”

  Letters

• “This Bacle was a very sprightly, amusing young fellow, full of lively sallies, which at his time of life appeared extremely agreeable.”

  The Confessions of J J Rousseau

• “Now physiological discomfort is an experience universal at one time of life or another; but the reaction to it is infinite in variety; and while part of it depends upon the congenital dispositions which are the common property of humanity, a larger part is contingent upon the psychogenetic factors which have stamped the individual.”

  The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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