Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair.
Covered with fine whitish hairs or down.
1 As if we hadn't heard that hoary old line a thousand times.
2 If it bears the hall-mark of hoary antiquity, so much the better.
3 Dunmore had evidently never thought of that hoary device; he chuckled appreciatively.
4 You shall rise before the hoary head and honor an old man.
5 He was short, and very thin; his cheeks were pale-his hair hoary .
6 They that fear the hoary frost, the snow shall fall upon them.
7 Then he went on to the upper chamber with the hoary -headed man.
8 And immediately she rose up from the hoary deep, like a mist.
9 And the hoary -headed man, and his wife, and his daughter were sorrowful.
10 Stale chocolate cake from the bakery with a hoary pack of frost.
11 All their hoary political iniquities had not deprived them of that dignity.
12 And while they were thus, behold there entered a venerable hoary - headed man.
13 So much for that hoary old cliche about remembering only the winners!
14 Gothos himself, hoary old teller of tales and self-appointed judge of all.
15 Who will hear our Scotch stories, never suspecting their hoary old age?
16 How it takes one back-backinto hoary antiquity, into another landscape altogether!
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