Citations:grandevous

English citations of grandevous

• 1647, T. S. [Thomas Scott? or Thomas Swadlin?], Children of Beliall, or, The rebells wherein these three questions are discussed, page 5:

  […] in the infancie of the world, the Fathers were so grandevous & lived so long, that each Father begot such a numerous Posterity as might people a whole Country […]

• 1683, "The Annotatour" [Henry More], “Annotations upon the Discourse of Truth”, in Two Choice and Useful Treatises:

  I do a little marvel that so grave and grandævous a person as he [sc. Richard Baxter, then 68 years old] […]

• 2015, Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, translated by Humphrey Davies, Leg Over Leg: Volumes Three and Four, page 190:

  This old, aged, elderly, decrepit, withered, shrunken, wizened, wrinkly, crabbed, shriveled, long-in–the-tooth, infirm, weak, debilitated, moth-eaten, doddery, tottery, grandevous, gerontic, badgerly, veterascent, senescent, doting, hoary, feeble, ravaged, wasting, superannuated mistress of mine […]