grand climacteric
Example Sentences
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Alas! he has not even reached his grand climacteric.
From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Sir Walter Besant
The year has reached its grand climacteric, and is fast falling “into the sere, the yellow leaf.”
From Mirror of the Months by Peter George Patmore
That exhilaration, that luxury of leisurely circumspection may never return, or only, as happily in my own case, with the grand climacteric.
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by John St. Loe Strachey
But perhaps it is a grand climacteric and will pass away.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James
Emerson wrote occasionally in verse from his school-days until he had reached the age which used to be known as the grand climacteric, sixty-three....
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edna Henry Lee Turpin
