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  • And in this countrey there was a certeine man called Senex de monte, who round about two mountaines had built a wall to inclose the sayd mountaines.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • If the Cochituate or Mystic water is too much like an obsolete chowder, up go all noses, and out come all manner of newspaper paragraphs from "Senex," "Tax-payer," and the rest.

    Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876 Various

  • "Senex," there came to the academy a stalwart son of

    Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

  • Judge Bingham served our cause also by articles on all phases of the question over the signature of "Senex," published in many journals throughout the State.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

  • "Senex" has seen three generations grow up, the son repeating the virtues and the failings of the father, the grandson showing the same characteristics as the father and grandfather.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • "Senex" has seen three generations grow up, the son repeating the virtues and the failings of the father, the grandson showing the same characteristics as the father and grandfather.

    Over the Teacups Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • Sir Alan Lascelles, King George VI's former private secretary, writing a letter to the Times (under the pseudonym 'Senex'), suggested that a dissolution might be refused if the existing Parliament was still vital and capable of doing its job; a general election would be detrimental to the national economy; or the monarch could rely on finding another prime minister who could carry on his government for a reasonable period with a working majority in the House of Commons.

    Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories 2010

  • Sir Alan Lascelles, King George VI's former private secretary, writing a letter to the Times (under the pseudonym 'Senex'), suggested that a dissolution might be refused if the existing Parliament was still vital and capable of doing its job; a general election would be detrimental to the national economy; or the monarch could rely on finding another prime minister who could carry on his government for a reasonable period with a working majority in the House of Commons.

    Epolitix News 2010

  • December 1st and December 5th, 1859: two letters signed "Senex," dealing with "Works of Art in the Drift.")

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845

  • Connie is like the Senex figure that the Jungian analyst James Hillman writes so much about, and Don the Puer.

    By the Blight of the Silvery Moon: Mad Men Postmortem: James Wolcott Wolcott, James 2009

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