evening of life
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As time goes by, Teresa can even see herself entering the evening of life a "surgeon in a great clinic," and the inventor of "an important medicine."
From Time Magazine Archive
Last stop, the Riviera: clear sunlight, indolent and pagan bathers, the evening of life.
From Time Magazine Archive
The vigour of their youth has been expended in the service of the despot, and now, in the evening of life, their original scanty pittance is yet further reduced.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
Faust, an aged scholar, the epitome of human faculties and virtues, grand, venerable, beneficent, blameless, is passing miserably into the evening of life.
From Shadows of the Stage by Winter, William
The evening brings the family together around the hearth, and in the evening of life man turns his thoughts homewards, forgets the faults of his neighbours, and lays aside disputes and strivings.
From Friend Mac Donald by O'Rell, Max
