His godship had literally attained a green old age.

When I was ten I thought twenty was a green old age.

Industry, regularity, respectability, and a preference for the four per cents are understood to be the very foundations of a green old age.

I am wrong; he thought he recognized them, both living, cheerful, happy, and flourishing,- the one in a green old age, the other in the flower of his youth.

The person whom the traveller had so abruptly encountered was of this kind: bluff, hale, hearty, and in a green old age: at peace with himself, and evidently disposed to be so with all the world.

He said: "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: - May we all live to a green old age and be prosperous and happy.

Besides his arguments on physiognomy and anthropology in relation to a pro-vegetarian lifestyle, he also saw vegetarianism as a means of preventing medical ailments, advocating vegetarianism as a means of living to a "green old age".

He only wrung my hand warmly, said that it was a pleasure to have known such a "real gentleman" as myself, and expressed a hope that I might get out of this hell and live to a green old age amongst Christians.

Although his last recorded first class match was in 1821 (aged 55), there is strong anecdotal evidence that he continued to play to a very advanced age, for in his Oxford Memories, Pycroft stated "Beldham's was a green old age.

But, fortunately, Heaven rewards us with many agreeable prospects and adventures by the way; and sometimes, when we go out to see a petrified forest, prepares a far more delightful curiosity, in the form of Mr. Evans, whom may all prosperity attend throughout a long and green old age.

Sitting in the chapel at Wem, with the winter sun raking across the subject's face, the painter described his father as "then in a green old age, with strong-marked features, and scarred with the smallpox", who read an old copy of Shaftesbury's Characteristics as he sat.