the wrong side of forty
Example Sentences
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He stared at the moonlit night, his eyes full of a wistfulness that was extraordinarily boyish in a man on the wrong side of forty.
From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Cynthia Stockley
Simpson, though on the wrong side of forty, well off and eminently lovable, was unmarried.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 by Various
He is still a young man, being only just on the wrong side of forty.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman
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 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
