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old as Methuselah



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Worries about the advanced age of leading politicians are as old as Methuselah.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 7, 2023

When I was a teen-ager, I spent a summer wandering the Highlands and islands of Scotland, looking at Neolithic ruins as old as Methuselah.

From The New Yorker Jan. 13, 2020

Considering that Shakespeare wrote these words in an era when a person’s average life span was about 45 years, he clearly intended Lear to be as old as Methuselah.

From New York Times Jul. 11, 2014

Buddha, as offered by Actor Hampden, seemed not very divine but as old as Methuselah by the time he stopped prancing as Prince Siddartha and took to meditation.

From Time Magazine Archive

I should think you would feel as old as Methuselah by this time, after having rattled from one place to the next all these years.

From A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches by Jewett, Sarah Orne




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