the wrong side of forty
Example Sentences
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As a man of experience, just on the wrong side of forty, it was not difficult to see the cards each held.
From The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories by Algernon Blackwood
I should take you, p. 60sir, begging your pardon, to be but a very little way on the wrong side of forty.’
From Dickory Dock by L. T. Meade
He was also a fine seaman, but the wrong side of forty.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Frank T. Bullen
I never thought it would come to this with me, considering that I am now on the wrong side of forty.
From To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story by Mark Wicks
"You do not think the term strong enough? but when a man gets on the wrong side of forty it is, I think, as much as he can expect."
From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Mrs Trollope
