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He's as old as Methuselah.Methuselah = Old Testament: grandfather of Noah who is said to have lived 969 years
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He'd done some of the key studies on mapping the proteonome when he was still a post-grad, and then he'd helped engineer the Methuselah Mouse as part of Operation Immortality.† (source)
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While other mice dropped in the terrarium disappeared within two days, this little brown Methuselah built itself a nest, stored the grains we gave it in various hideaways and scampered about in plain sight of the snakes.† (source)
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Standing before the Methuselah Tree, a gnarled and twisted bristlecone pine, it was easy to accept its great age.† (source)
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Something like Methuselah syndrome or early Alzheimer's disease?† (source)
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He'd left us two boarders, in fact: Mama Tataba and a parrot named Methuselah.† (source)
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The various milkmen, grocers and butchers of the two former housewives have been praised to the skies or run into the ground so many times that in our imaginations they've grown as old as Methuselah; there's absolutely no chance of anything new or fresh being brought up for discussion in the Annex.† (source)
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So where's the place in this world for a man who looks twenty but who is older than Methuselah, what man could stand the shock of a change like that?† (source)
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It was a tradition common throughout cultures of the world to revere the elders of a society, and since the days of Methuselah, it had simply been assumed that the older a person was, the more life experience they'd had: Therefore, they were probably wiser than anyone else.† (source)
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And I guess I'll be here forever, me and Methuselah.† (source)
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We're starting work next week on Shaw's 'Back to Methuselah'.† (source)
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The Utopian play by Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, produced in 1921, converted the theme into a modern socio-biological parable.† (source)
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Why was it that Methuselah lived nine hundred years, and 'Old Parr' one hundred and sixty-nine, and yet that poor Lucy, with four men's blood in her poor veins, could not live even one day?† (source)
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Methuselah bestowed information on Epimenides.† (source)
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Yes, believe me or not, as you like; but truths are by no means as long-lived at Methuselah—as some folk imagine.† (source)
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Methuselah seems a school-boy.† (source)
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