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Definition of Hoariest
1. hoary [adj] - See also: hoary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoariest
Literary usage of Hoariest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1892)
"... contain a mass of Egyptian traditions which are constantly corroborated by
the most authentic records and monuments of Egypt of the hoariest antiquity. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"All the civilization of the modern world may be traced to its ultimate source in
that people of hoariest antiquity, who some eight thousand years ago loomed ..."
3. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"None," he says, in a sonnet,— " None, not the hoariest sage, may tell of all The
strong heart struggles with before it fall." If Respectability wanted to ..."
4. The Century (1902)
"Though it should attain to the hoariest antiquity, its very name must prevent
its becoming, like those of the Greek and Roman capitals, a synonym for age. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"... and which is so especially rich in stupendous and highly-decorated monuments,
many of them bearing indisputable marks of the hoariest antiquity, ..."
6. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"The hoariest- headed man will tread one other measure, under this nether Moon;
speechless nurslings, infants as we call them, ..."
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