time-stricken

It is a pity; because it would be such an economy of human existence, if time-stricken people (whose value I have the better right to estimate, as reckoning myself one of them) could snatch from their juniors the exclusive privilege of carrying on the war.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

There is a kind of ludicrous unfitness in the idea of a time-stricken and grandfatherly lilac-bush.

Buds and Bird-voices 1914

There grows the wild ash, and a time-stricken willow

The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

The door slammed on the time-stricken form, and he was again alone with the storm-demons who now soon grew drowsy and went to sleep, and he himself went to bed, -- and, wrote he, "slept like a postillion in a cock-loft, or a midshipman in the middle-watch."

James Fenimore Cooper 1901

If, like Plato and Dante, he was "a great lover" in his youth, "a great lover" he remained even into time-stricken age; when past his seventieth year he was moved by a passion from which, as in youth, he found deliverance by giving vent to it in passionate verse.

The Youth of Goethe Peter Hume Brown 1883

Such was the advice given me by that time-stricken, careworn, and embittered man of the world, who was sixteen years old if he was a day.

The Story of a Bad Boy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

It is a pity; because it would be such an economy of human existence, if time-stricken people (whose value I have the better right to estimate, as reckoning myself one of them) could snatch from their juniors the exclusive privilege of carrying on the war.

Sketches and Studies Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 1852

What, then, must it have been to Hepzibah and Clifford, -- so time-stricken as they were, yet so like children in their inexperience, -- as they left the door-step, and passed from beneath the wide shelter of the Pyncheon-elm!

The House of the Seven Gables 1851

She, in fact, felt a reverence for the pictured visage of which only a far-descended and time-stricken virgin could be susceptible; and this forbidding scowl was the innocent result of her near-sightedness, and an effort so to concentrate her powers of vision as to substitute a firm outline of the object instead of a vague one.

The House of the Seven Gables 1851

What, then, must it have been to Hepzibah and Clifford, -- so time-stricken as they were, yet so like children in their inexperience, -- as they left the doorstep, and passed from beneath the wide shelter of the Pyncheon Elm!

The House of the Seven Gables 1851