What is "oldish"

Usage examples of "oldish".

The -house must be halfway between Bury and Tivetshall Saint Michael, within easy reach of both, in rather a remote place, standing alone, oldish but not ancient, not too big and at the right price.

The picture on it was of an oldish smiling woman with waved silver hair, holding a bunch of flowers.

He was an oldish man, turned sixty, one would say, and belonging, to judge from his dress and general appearance, to what one might call the upper labouring class.

In front of the gate were a table and chair made of mahogany, and seated at the table was a balding oldish man with a long white beard, dressed in a white satin sheet.

In front of me walked Ikonin--a tall young man of about twenty-five, who was one of those whom I had classed as oldish men.

Latimer Springfield was a rather cheerless, oldish young man, who went into politics somewhat in the spirit in which other people might go into half-mourning.

XVIII Is it I, Henry Ryecroft, who, after a night of untroubled rest, rise unhurriedly, dress with the deliberation of an oldish man, and go downstairs happy in the thought that I can sit reading, quietly reading, all day long?

One had the look of a sporting attorney, an oldish man with horn spectacles on his nose, and before him a sheaf of papers.

He was a frail, oldish man with gray-white hair and a mild, kind face.

He pootled along to a car park a few hundred yards from the gate, went over to an oldish blue Renault, and climbed into the driving seat, cool as a cucumber.

Doubtfully they leased an apartment in an oldish building on the South Side, decent enough but depressingly inferior to their green and silver cottage in Kinnikinick, their canary-yellow flat in Des Moines.

Avena sativa, movements of oldish cotyledons, 499, 500 Averrhoa bilimbi, leaf asleep, 330 --, angular movements when going to sleep, 331335 --, leaflets exposed to bright sunshine, 447 Azalea Indica, circumnutation of stem, 208 B.

The deep low collar and the Eton jacket made him feel queer and oldish: and that morning when his mother had brought him down to the parlour, dressed for mass, his father had cried.

Both cotyledons of an oldish seedling, with the first true leaf partially unfolded, were rubbed for 1 m.