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Bonnyman was exempt from the draft because he was already years old,
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Such good news in fact ... that if I wasn't so old,
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Locke's great epistemological contribution to philosophy is a conception of human knowledge suitable for the experimental science of his day, one that in natural philosophy at least will replace the old,
Locke's Philosophy of Science Kochiras, Hylarie 2009
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It's a feeling in my heart that makes me young, tho I'm not so old,
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Just after her last breath, my oldest son, a sweet, smart 16-year old,
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The chiefest of all his ministers was a man called Shimás56 who was then 57 two and twenty years old,
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Thoughts hid, but not less cherished than of old,
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There are yet, besides those, other words of time, that ordinarily are thought to stand for positive ideas, which yet will, when considered, be found to be relative; such as are, young, old,
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God and nature, and themselves; 'twas Pliny's dilemma of old,
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He is the mere hound of a day, but you know me of old,
Oliver Twist 2007
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