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So it was with him when he first became aware of the old man, sitting there with that age-long regard directed towards him. But, by degrees, a sense of wonder had its will, and grew, slowly at first, in Redclyffe's mind; and almost twin-born with it, and growing piece by piece, there was a sense of awful fear, as his waking senses came slowly back to him.
An age-long process of degeneration had been going on in her race, and she was the result: she was well born and well bred for feeling nothing.
The assassination of the President and the persistence of age-long quarrels with Haiti over boundaries made matters worse. Thereupon, in 1913, the United States served formal notice on the rebellious parties that it would not only refuse to recognize any Government set up by force but would withhold any share in the receipts from the customs.
"He says," translated that official calmly, "that the chicken oath is all right in China, but that it is no good in United States, and that anyway the proper form of words was not used." "Good Lord!" ejaculated O'Brien. "Where am I?" "Me tell truth, all light," suddenly announced Ah Fong in English. "Go ahead! Shoot!" And he smiled an inscrutable age-long Oriental smile.
I do believe it was only one of those creaks in the timbers which announce the torpid, age-long, sinking flow of every house back to the dust a motion to which the flow of the glacier is as a torrent, but which is no less inevitable and sure. Day and night it ceases not; but only in the night, when house and heart are still, do we hear it.
As in our more limited communities and cities, where self-sustaining and self-reliant sections of the population are forced to shoulder the burden of the reckless and irresponsible, so in the great world community the more prosperous and incidentally less populous nations are asked to relieve and succor those countries which are either the victims of the wide-spread havoc of war, of militaristic statesmanship, or of the age-long tradition of reckless propagation and its consequent over-population.
I should think ill of the American who, for any causes of ambition, any hope of wealth or rank, or even for the sake of any of those old, delightful ideas of the past, the associations of ancestry, the loveliness of an age-long home, the old poetry and romance that haunt these ancient villages and estates of England, would give up the chance of acting upon the unmoulded future of America."
Despite the age-long trance from which they both had but so recently emerged, a strange lassitude weighed on them. Yet long after Beatrice had lost herself in dreams, Stern lay and thought strange thoughts, yearning and eager thoughts, there in the impenetrable gloom. Before daybreak the engineer was up again, and active.
Then, in a summary passage at the end, Lucretius enumerates all the chief discoveries which men have made in the age-long process ships, agriculture, walled cities, laws, roads, clothes, songs, pictures, statues, and all the pleasures of life and adds, 'these things practice and the experience of the unresting mind have taught mankind gradually as they have progressed from point to point'.
Each island of the great Archipelago offers distinctive interests, for many alien races grafted themselves on the original stock, after those age-long wanderings across the Southern seas which probably coincided with the westward march from Central Asia, whereby primeval man fulfilled the decrees of destiny.
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