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  • Why not have called her Methusaleh and have done with it?

    Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

  • When Secret Service agent Ronan "Methusaleh" Dooley is brutally murdered, he's brought back from the dead yet again to hunt his killer, and in doing so uncover a terrible conspiracy."

    Mihir’s Anticipated 2010 Books Liviu 2010

  • Sorre to sai that the “Requiem for Methusaleh” was wun ov the eppisodes I faound moss irritatting.

    I has a sad. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Methusaleh, the pear-tree, stood at the further end of this walk, near my seat: he rose up, dim and gray, above the lower shrubs round him.

    Villette 2003

  • Pausing before Methusaleh — the giant and patriarch of the garden — and leaning my brow against his knotty trunk, my foot rested on the stone sealing the small sepulchre at his root; and I recalled the passage of feeling therein buried; I recalled Dr. John; my warm affection for him; my faith in his excellence; my delight in his grace.

    Villette 2003

  • Now Methusaleh, though so very old, was of sound timber still; only there was a hole, or rather a deep hollow, near his root.

    Villette 2003

  • She thinks I'm older than Methusaleh, and that she can live here with me.

    A Little Rebel A Novel

  • What is easier than for Congress to evade its restriction, and make the _limited time_ exactly the years of Methusaleh!

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

  • His children gathered round him, for we are told that after Methusaleh, he had "sons and daughters."

    Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters George Milligan

  • In this group David was the central figure, with Adam, Seth, and Methusaleh on his right hand, and Abraham, Jacob, and Moses on his left.

    Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

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