With the exception of a number of Octogenarians and cripples, the men in Regent Street wore uniform.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
But let our whitest vow be, after that for a whiter life, that age shall no longer be measured by this arbitrary standard of years, and that those deceitful and practical Octogenarians of thirty shall not escape as young merely because they have not yet shown the strength to carry threescore and ten with jocund elasticity.
"From the Easy Chair, series 2"
George William Curtis
That they two had been cut off in the prime of life by a virulent epidemic of typhoid fever that swept the village like a plague, did not alter the fact that they came of races famous for Octogenarians; and Christina, the last of two long lines of ancestors, shivered anew at the thought of the weary, weary years of struggle that might still lie before her.
"Christina"
L. G. Moberly