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Updated: June 28, 2025
The lines of the face were deep and care-worn age had come on with rapid strides and the light of the eye was vague and unsettled, as if the lofty reason shook, terrified in its pride, at last. "Alone, alone!" she murmured, half aloud: "yea, evermore alone!
Once more I stood on my native shore, a care-worn, weather-beaten man, well advanced in years.
In November of that year the ceremony of consecration took place. Edward Everett, the orator and the scholar, delivered the oration; it was a polished specimen of his consummate skill. After him rose President Lincoln, "simple, rude, his care-worn face now lighted and glowing with intense feeling." He simply read the touching speech which is already placed among the classics of our language:
Next to him sat a female-authoress, I think, of two somewhat feeble novels, and much pleasanter to look at than her books. She was, I thought, a good deal excited at the prospect of spiritual revelations. Her neighbor was a pallid, care-worn young woman, with very red lips, and large brown eyes of great beauty.
And then the little while grows into a big while and the big while grows into a year and the year grows into a lifetime and he is still stammering. Several months ago, an old man, stooped in stature, care-worn of countenance and halting of step, presented himself to me for diagnosis. His face was drawn into long, hard lines. His eyes shifted from side to side, glancing furtively here and there.
Horace Danforth was silent, and after a moment's pause, Mr. Grahame resumed. "In this union of the working and the thinking classes, the refinements of life, those things which adorn, and beautify it, take their true place as consolers and soothers of the care-worn and toil-wearied mind.
She felt very keenly that no one of them was vitally interested in this wonder-year of hers. They asked her perfunctory questions, but Grace's watchful eyes were on the service, Anthony was engrossed with his food, and her father Her father was changed. He looked older and care-worn. For the first time she began to wonder about her father.
As they entered the passage, a care-worn woman in a widow's cap made her appearance with a candle. "My niece," said the captain, presenting Magdalen; "my niece on a visit to York. She has kindly consented to occupy your empty bedroom. Consider it let, if you please, to my niece and be very particular in airing the sheets? Is Mrs. Wragge upstairs? Very good. You may lend me your candle.
But his face looks haggard and care-worn, and his grizzled mustache has a cynical curl even in sleep. At a sound he starts, opening wide those watchful gray eyes an instant, then closing them quickly. It is a footstep approaching. Stealthily it comes, and passes by his side. Then silence broken only by the crackle and roar of the flames.
He is an eager bright-eyed boy, with pinching, dandy shoes and tight-fitting smalls, snowy shirt frill and stock, and oh! such curly hair. A wild, light-hearted boy! Can he be the great, grave gentleman upon whose stick I used to ride crosslegged, the care-worn man into whose thoughtful face I used to gaze with childish reverence and whom I used to call "father?"
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