" I saw a middle-aged Frenchman with a big black beard, streaked with gray, a sunburned face, and large, shining eyes.
It must be remembered that I was very young, and I looked upon him as a middle-aged man.
"I suppose," whispered Lotty, "Rose's husband seems to you just an ordinary, good-natured, middle-aged man.
No need now to be ashamed of his figure, and to make jokes about it so as to forestall other people's and show he didn't mind it; no need now to be ashamed of getting hot going up hills, or to torment himself with pictures of how he probably appeared to beautiful young women—how middle-aged, how absurd in his inability to keep away from them.
The spring was abroad in the land and Marilla's sober, middle-aged step was lighter and swifter because of its deep, primal gladness.
Miss Rogerson was a middle-aged lady who had taught a Sunday-school class for twenty years.
He was a middle-aged man, wearing spectacles and a brown beard trimmed to a careful point.
I'm really quite a middle-aged dog.
A good part of the whispering had been occasioned by an event which was more or less rare—the entrance of visitors: lawyer Thatcher, accompanied by a very feeble and aged man; a fine, portly, middle-aged gentleman with iron-gray hair; and a dignified lady who was doubtless the latter's wife.
This shocking news emerged from a study of more than 450,000 middle-aged people started 16 years ago and followed up until now.
How come everyone in our company is middle-aged stuffy?
Happiness follows a U-shaped curve during a person's lifetime, according to research showing that middle-aged people are the unhappiest.
But soon enough, he spotted a target, a seemingly wealthy middle-aged man in an old jacket.
Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to conceal the furrows ploughed by time.
At that moment, just when I couldn't feel any worse, a middle-aged couple walked into the room.
A study published on Wednesday in the journal Neurology showed stressed-out middle-aged people were more likely to show symptoms of memory loss.
He said: 'Our research detected memory loss and brain shrinkage in middle-aged people before symptoms started to show.
The study analyzed self-reported data from more than 15,400 middle-aged Americans who participated in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.
() Gammon A person, typically male, middle-aged, and white, with reactionary views, especially one who supports the withdrawal of Britain from the European Union (noun) ,,"".
The middle-aged and over 65s in the UK may soon be taxed to cover the cost of their later life care if proposals are given the go ahead.