...At their head were a venerable old man and an ancient dame, more brisk and active, however, than might have been expected from their years... 
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
...Wilberforce, the amiable, eloquent, and venerable leader of the party, Mr...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...He was thesame venerable old man of whom so favourable an account wastransmitted by Major Houghton...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 1 [of 2]」
...The chief, a venerable man with a long, white beard, examined them from head to foot and, remarking that they were strange-looking people well worth seeing, awarded them a commodious hut...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...Grant says that he never saw a finer face than that of this venerable Copt, Gabriel by name, who is at the head of the Coptic Church at Khartoum...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...He was mounted on a beautiful snow-white hygeen, his appearance being remarkably dignified and venerable...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...“Well, then, I’ll take that venerable old chap that appears to be the leader, and the great-grandfather of them all,” said the Major...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...In captivity it is remarkable for thegravity of its demeanour and for an air of melancholy in itsexpression and movements, which are completely in character with itssnowy beard and venerable aspect...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...If one of Noah'schildren had dared to address him with themodern salutation of 'governor,' the venerable patriarchwould have flung his child overboard from theark...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...The same fate has been meted out to that other venerable test of sex,the position of the air-bag at the blunt end of the shell...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...An exhilarating andedifying spectacle it was,—this venerable worthy sitting behindhis bunch of wooden decoys, a wounded tern fluttering in agony at hisfeet...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
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