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If Methuselahs were not exceptional in these days in America, who can estimate to how great a degree the unavoidable friction of family society would be increased! We must never, in this question of education, forget for one moment the peculiar conditions which surround our girls, from the peculiarities of national government and society.
The quaintness of his phrase appears at every turn. "Charles the Fifth can never hope to live within two Methuselahs of Hector." "Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families survive not three oaks." "Mummy is become merchandise; Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams."
This verdant valley was sheltered by some of the oldest hawthorns George Fairfax had ever seen very Methuselahs of trees, whose grim old trunks and crooked branches time had twisted into the queerest shapes, and whose massive boles and strange excrescences of limb were covered with the moss of past generations.
Some people spin up to Methuselahs in a few years. From what I can learn of Methuselah, he never grew past copper-toed boots. He just hibernated and "chawed on." The more birthdays we have, the nearer we approach eternal youth! Bernhardt, Davis and Edison The spectacle of Sarah Bernhardt, past seventy, thrilling and gripping audiences with the fire and brilliancy of youth, is inspiring.
Bashford and I made no question that Searles's companion was indubitably my uncle's widow gave me her hand and smiled in a way that showed that she was not so greatly displeased with Alice as her words implied. "Pay that driver for me and don't fail to tip him. Those Methuselahs at the gate all but killed him.
Yes, there was only one club deserving of the name. "Still," said Sir Paul. "They might give us a rest from prunes and rice." "This club," said Mr. Prohack, "like all other clubs, is managed by a committee of Methuselahs who can only digest prunes and rice." And after a lot more talk about the idiosyncrasies of clubs he said, with a casual air: "For myself, I belong to too many clubs."
'What's the good of saying that, about a man like William, who knows what he wants? Of course he's set his heart, and will go on setting it. But he'll wait as long as she likes. 'It'll be a long time. 'All right! They're neither of them Methuselahs yet. Heavens! What are they at now? Ambrine! she's talking to him'
Perhaps nature intended all creatures to sleep through the hours of darkness. If we had followed that custom we might be a race of Methuselahs; who knows? Why some one has not established a cult of sleepers from sunset to dawn is really inexplicable.
Ancient among trees are the two specimens of microcycas from the swamps of Cuba. These Methuselahs of the forest are at least 1,000 years old, according to the botanists. They are among the slowest growing of living things, and neither of them is much taller than a man.
"I've been too stunned till now to grasp what's happened," he said in a moment. "Our best friend gone, Miss Farmond!" He had said exactly the right thing now. "He certainly was mine!" she said. "And mine too. We may live to be a brace of Methuselahs, but I guess we'll never see his like again!" His odd phrase made her smile for a moment despite herself.
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