What is "septuagenarian"

Usage examples of "septuagenarian".

Athos: aconite, resorted to by increasing doses of grains and scruples as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia: the face in death of a septuagenarian, suicide by poison.

In order that the nature of the question asked by the Duchess may be explained, it must be stated that just at this time the political affairs of the nation had got themselves tied up into one of those truly desperate knots from which even the wisdom and experience of septuagenarian statesmen can see no unravelment.

Clan Chief Kar, a cousin of Torv (as was half the village) was a lean hawk-beaked septuagenarian, given to stroking his snowy beard pontifically and rendering his opinions in long bardish utterances.

And she was up, moving across the room, her body leaning back as she walked, moving toward the most unattractive septuagenarian present.

He goes inside, holding the door for a fearsomely brisk young woman in a quasimilitary outfit--who makes it clear that Waterhouse had better not expect to Get Anywhere just because he's holding the door for her--and then for a tired-looking septuagenarian gent with a white mustache.

I receive as a septuagenarian a retirement pension, of which I feel it proper to give away at least what the Tax collectors leave in my hands (a National one, I mean: I refused the University pension, and took the lump sum and invested it in a trust managed by my bank).

Among the condemned we find septuagenarians, known priests and even married priests.

Malinski demanded her right to some “boys-in-waiting,” and called up three septuagenarians, who snuggled up to her.