They posed as types of elderliness that had no personal concern in love-affairs, and could afford to smile at juvenile flirtations.
"When Ghost Meets Ghost"
William Frend De Morgan
One of the causes of the failure of nerve-force in age, which lies behind so much of these miseries, is that people who have lived at all active lives cannot bring themselves to realise their loss of vigour, and try to prolong the natural energies of middle age into the twilight of elderliness.
"Where No Fear Was A Book About Fear"
Arthur Christopher Benson