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Oldster  n.  An old person. (Jocular)






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"Oldster" Quotes from Famous Books



... courted her mother. My sorrow! it looks but yesterday, and yet here's an old done man! Folks have been born and married (some of them) and died since syne, and I've been going through life with my eyes shut to my own antiquity. It came on me like a flash three minutes ago, that this gross oldster, sitting of a Saturday sipping the good aqua of Elrigmore, with a pendulous waistcoat and a wrinkled hand, is not the lad whose youth and courtship you ...
— John Splendid - The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn • Neil Munro

... above them. The whole anatomy and, so to say, nervous system of the organization were dislocated. For better or for worse, perhaps for better and for worse, the change was more like death and resurrection than life and growth. The potent element which the oldster had contributed, and the upper classes absorbed and perpetuated, was eliminated at once and entirely by the detachment of the senior cadets and the segregation of the new-corners. New ideals were evolved by a mass of school-boys, severed ...
— From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life • Captain A. T. Mahan

... scientific pugilist, and now and then took a brush with an oldster; and although overpowered, yet I displayed so much prowess, that my enemies became cautious how they renewed a struggle which they perceived became daily more arduous; till at last, like the lion's ...
— Frank Mildmay • Captain Frederick Marryat



Words linked to "Oldster" :   dotard, back-number, Methuselah, senior citizen, has-been, old man, dodderer, sexagenarian, greybeard, fossil, octogenarian, curmudgeon, old person, old boy, golden ager, septuagenarian, grownup, ancient, fogey, nonagenarian, dodo, antediluvian, old woman



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