What is "oldster"

Usage examples of "oldster".

He was an oldster, he had white hair and wrinkles even, but he was a hard-ass, that was clear, wearing a loricated armor, armor made of curved plates that overlapped like the carapace of a centipede.

The skinny oldster moping in the rear was Area Supervisor of the Pan-Sirian Association of Lizard Watchers.

Now she leads her herd of oldsters, shuffling and bobbing solemnly in their splashy playclothes, toward a link fence and a new phase of their five-dollar pilgrimage.

Dan recalled, was a small park, and sure enough several of the white-uniformed girls were soon propelling oldsters in that direction.

The worm entailed risks: implantation and direct-to-brain wiring was always tricky, could leave you a mental cripple if the operation went wrong, and the oldsters had never quite been able to face that possibility.

The young woman flinched at its initial approach, but when she saw how indifferent the oldsters were to its presence, she relaxed.

He saw three oldsters already swapping lies in front of the ramshackle post office, and he was honest enough to envy them their life.

Oldsters died that way -- freefall diving without a backpack on, deliberately wandering near when they released the cloned elephants on a new world, banjaxing the safeties and stepping into the hopper of a strata machine -- but then ambulance crews took over.

The oldster clacked his plates at Blondel and indicated a multicolored World War One Victory ribbon dangling from a curled lapel.

The Knight had not spoken with anyone beyond the counterman and the oldster.

They're wild to throw off the restraint we have exercised, and are, of course, convinced that by shooting the oldsters they will only hasten by a few years what nature would, in any e v ent, manage to d o in the cours e of time.

The temperature climbed into the high twenties, and even those oldsters who hadn't managed to learn to convert to the centigrade thermometer knew it was hot.

The temperature climbed into the high twenties, and even those oldsters who hadnt managed to learn to convert to the centigrade thermometer knew it was hot.

Most oldsters she had known had been as governed by conditioned reflexes as when they had been nineteen.

The one on the far right was a skinny oldster who seemed slightly deaf, since as they came up he was cupping one ear with a shaky hand and shouting at the Dilbian next to him to speak up.