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  • With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • One day I happened by that way, though, and on this day I saw a young redheaded guy and a really old grayheaded woman out in front of the Green Door hosing down its outside.

    From Out of the Past Come the Thundering Hoofbeats The Daily Growler 2006

  • With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

    Job 15. 1999

  • And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.

    1 Samuel 12. 1999

  • The grayheaded porter at the gate, a very communicative and happy old man, aged eighty-eight years, soon gave us a history of the institution.

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

  • The musician was an old grayheaded negro, who had been the itinerant orchestra of the neighborhood for more than half a century.

    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1917

  • But here was the point -- and it was the point which was worrying Sleeman grayheaded.

    Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters 1916

  • [18] Yea, even when3 I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not,

    LXXI. Book II 1909

  • The peasant's gossip had been of the hunt, of the brocken, of the grayheaded kites that had nested in Wood Fidley, and of the great catch of herring brought back by the boats of Pitt's Deep.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

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