evening of life
Example Sentences
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Last stop, the Riviera: clear sunlight, indolent and pagan bathers, the evening of life.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
This secured a modest competence in the evening of life to one who had never been wealthy, and who had never coveted wealth.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd
What a romantic thing it would be for them to meet in the evening of life and renew the promises of their youth!
From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton
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 William Cornwallis Harris
