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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * When I came to the foot of the hill called Difficulty, I met with a very aged man, who asked me what I was, and whither bound. I told him that I am a pilgrim, going to the Celestial City.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager won my reverence, while the gentle manners of the girl enticed my love.
 * His blind and aged father and his gentle sister lay in a noisome dungeon while he enjoyed the free air and the society of her whom he loved.
 * The colleges are ancient and picturesque; the streets are almost magnificent; and the lovely Isis, which flows beside it through meadows of exquisite verdure, is spread forth into a placid expanse of waters, which reflects its majestic assemblage of towers, and spires, and domes, embosomed among aged trees.


 * 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
 * In fact, the artist's design seemed this: a final theory of my own, partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged persons with whom I conversed upon the subject.
 * He looked like a man cut away from the stake, when the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them, or taking away one particle from their compacted aged robustness.
 * In general, the same remark, only within a less wide limit, applies to the solitaries and hermits among the matured, aged sperm whales.