Could he by a look have blasted those valiant arms-have palsied that youthful head, whose judgment shamed the hoariest temples-gladly would he have made Scotland the sacrifice so that he might never again find himself in the triumphant train of one whom he deemed a boy and an upstart!
"The Scottish Chiefs"
Jane Porter
She still stopped just twenty minutes at old Mrs Leatherly's on the way in for a yarn and a cup of tea-as she had always done, on the same days and at the same time within the memory of the hoariest local liar.
"Joe Wilson and His Mates"
Henry Lawson
They invited and welcomed, not repulsed, the slimy embraces of Nilus, and his favors have been, from the hoariest antiquity, the greatest material blessing that nature ever bestowed upon a people.
"The Earth as Modified by Human Action"
George P. Marsh