From that day the intimacy began, and a warm friendship sprang up between the two families, founded on Bertrand's love for the old works of art, wherein the ancestors of Peter Craigmile, senior, looked out from their frames with a dignity and warmth and grace rarely to be met with in this new western land.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
We were near the same age, he being a few years my senior, and we knew each other but slightly, for our families never visited, as you well know.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
He was, by several years, our senior, and had reached man's estate, when we first met him twelve years ago, on our southern journey.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse