autumn of life

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A tall bony woman, in the autumn of life, with sunken eyes and iron-grey hair, rose stiffly from her chair, and saluted the ladies with stern submission as they opened the door.

From The Haunted Hotel by Collins, Wilkie

God bless the dear head! and crown it with years Untroubled and calmly serene; That the autumn of life more golden may be For the heats and the storms that have been.

From Three Unpublished Poems by Alcott, Louisa May

It was then nearly the autumn of life with the Colonel, but really and truly he seemed to be growing old gracefully.

From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Stables, Gordon

Miss Pratt was an old maid; but that is a no more definite description than if I had said she was in the autumn of life.

From Scenes of Clerical Life by Eliot, George

I passed the spring, summer, and autumn of life among the trees.

From The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore