Sample Sentences forMethuselah (auto-selected)
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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 left us two boarders, in fact: Mama Tataba and a parrot named Methuselah.† (source)
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Something like Methuselah syndrome or early Alzheimer's disease?† (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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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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We're starting work next week on Shaw's 'Back to Methuselah'.† (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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Methuselah seems a school-boy.† (source)
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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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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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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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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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Methuselah bestowed information on Epimenides.† (source)
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One old man, who has been a close observer of Nature, and seems as thoroughly wise in regard to all her operations as if she had been put upon the stocks when he was a boy, and he had helped to lay her keel—who has come to his growth, and can hardly acquire more of natural lore if he should live to the age of Methuselah—told me—and I was surprised to hear him express wonder at any of Nature's operations, for I thought that there were no secrets between them—that one spring day he took his gun and boat, and thought that he would have a little sport with the ducks.† (source)
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The other day I saw Miss Trotter (that was), arrayed in them, trip into the travelling carriage at St. George's, Hanover Square, and Lord Methuselah hobbled in after.† (source)
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