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  • Tangent comment.... does R.Orci the guy on the left in the photo look like a scruffy, greyheaded Lt. Data?

    Kurtzman and Orci Talk About The Future of Star Trek | /Film 2009

  • Other waterbirds found on Lake Eyasi include yellowbilled stork Mycteria ibis, African spoonbill Platalea alba, avocet Recurvirostra avosetta and greyheaded gull Larus cirrocephalus.

    Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania 2009

  • Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Can you imagine a greyheaded old goat knocking out 50 pushups for some 19 year old Drill Sergeant?

    Think Progress » “The Defense Department quietly asked Congress 2006

  • Once more the cycle of life and generation was reversed; the infants grew into young men, and the young men became greyheaded; no longer did the animals spring out of the earth; as the whole world was now lord of its own progress, so the parts were to be self-created and self-nourished.

    The Statesman 2006

  • This was apparently the first time she saw the greyheaded man on the other side in prison clothes, and with his head shaved.

    Resurrection 2003

  • With reason, therefore, everybody admired Cato, when they saw others sink under labors, and grow effeminate by pleasures; and yet beheld him unconquered by either, and that not only when he was young and desirous of honor, but also when old and greyheaded, after a consulship and triumph; like some famous victor in the games, persevering in his exercise and maintaining his character to the very last.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • The greyheaded wood-pecker tapping the hollow tree!

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • But by none were the Uzcoques more feared and detested than by the greyheaded doge and senators of the Ocean Queen, the sea-born city, before whose cathedral the colours of three kingdoms fluttered from their crimson flagstaffs; and the few young Venetians in whose breasts the remembrance of their heroic ancestors yet lived, blushed for their country's degradation when they beheld her rulers braved and insulted by a band of sea-robbers.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

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