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Example sentences for "much older"

  • She was not so much older than he, was possessed of very much the same temperament, the same hopes and aspirations, and she discerned almost as clearly as he did the current of events.

  • Mrs. Witla, being so much older, was, of course, calmer and in the family seat of dignity and peace.

  • Always so much older, so much rougher, and so much less worthy, even what I was must be dismissed by both of us, and you must see me only as I am.

  • I should be ashamed if I submitted to be so soon driven out of the field, where a much older and a much more sensitively interested man contended with fortitude so long.

  • So far removed, so different, and so much older, I am the better fitted for your friend and adviser.

  • The upper part of the building dates from 1450, but the crypt is much older, and it is conjectured to be a Saxon foundation.

  • This was absurd, of course, with a man so much older!

  • Then I suppose I was flattered in thinking a so much older, wiser man could care for a stupid girl like me.

  • Although they had only known one another for a week, and Captain Madden was so much older, intimacies develop more rapidly aboard ship than anywhere else in the world, except perhaps on a desert island.

  • You are quite as young as I am in some things, though you are so much older in others.

  • He is so much older than I am, and I looked up to him.

  • Of course you're ever so much older than I am.

  • This much at any rate is certain, that the method of covering with tin foil was known at Murano so early as the sixteenth century[200], and therefore it is much older than J.

  • But you are older than I am, so much older, had you never any suspicion of anything at all?

  • How then," she enquired, "you choose for yourself a man so much older?

  • It sounds as if you were so much older than I am.

  • Only the new part; there is one wing which is much older.

  • Almost all other good persons we have known have been so much older: and I never believed it was possible to be so good when one was so young.

  • She is much older," said Mrs Herbert; "naturally that would make a difference.

  • She is ever so much older than he, and he married her out of a wish to make her happy after saving her life at the risk of his own.

  • It was the face of a much older person, with a lined, yellow skin.

  • He must know they were only trying to do their best for him, and they were so much older than he that they must be better judges of what was good for him.

  • As for myself, I was nine days younger than Stella, and so I was at this time very old--much older than it is ever permitted anyone to be afterward.

  • It is not at all probable that a woman so much older than I should have taken possession of me in this fashion, almost against my will.

  • By that instinctive wisdom, which is so much older, so much truer than civilization, she had triumphed over the ordination of life.

  • Though Lydia Peyton is so much older than I am, she was always my best friend--we often stayed in the room together when we were girls.

  • Arthur is just as I remembered him, except that he has grown so much older.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    alternative but; beautiful lake; giving power; longtemps que; much against; much amiss; much concerned; much confidence; much damage; much detail; much easier; much employed; much inferior; much love; much pains; much pleased; much pleasure; much power; much smaller; much sorrow; much stronger; much sugar; much water; passes through; summer evening; white face