middle-aged-looking

Updated: May 11, 2025

Then she said she wanted a half-dozen of them, and was there a discount when bought in such quantity? I started wrapping them up when I looked at her and she was crying. And she dropped her sixty cents on the counter and said: 'Never mind, never mind. I don't want them. I can't wear them. They'll only make it worse." A middle-aged-looking man interrupts. "What is it, sir?" asks Madge.

Ben Hecht - A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago

Don't you feel sure she must have meant her remark for some other passer-by, Mrs. Bradford?" said Mrs. Graham, much agitated by his annoyance. Mrs. Bradford eyed Mr. Graham with stolid thoroughness. "I think she must. He doesn't look at all like that. But my husband used to say that the sedate middle-aged-looking ones were often the worst, so perhaps she may have thought the same."

J. E. Buckrose - The Privet Hedge

"I dare say he looked much about the same as he does now," said the doctor. "Well," John said, "perhaps a little slimmer, you know. Not much. An iron-grey, middle-aged-looking man. No; he has changed very little." "He was born elderly, and he will die elderly," said the doctor, shortly. "Neither the follies of youth nor the softening of age will ever be known to Sir Timothy."

Mrs. Henry De La Pasture - Peter's Mother