invecchiare
= verbo in transitivo , riempire di astio , di rancore <
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" Invecchiare ! morire ! e poi ? " E , cosa notabile ! l'immagine della morte , che , in un pericolo vicino , a fronte d'un nemico , soleva raddoppiar gli spiriti di quell'uomo , e infondergli un'ira piena di coraggio , quella stessa immagine , apparendogli nel silenzio della notte , nella sicurezza del suo castello , gli metteva addosso una costernazione repentina .(Manzoni-I Promessi sposi)<>
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attemparsi
= verbo rifl. invecchiare<>
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brandy
= acquavite che si ottiene distillando il vino e facendolo invecchiare in botti di rovere
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stagionare
= verbo transitivo conservare un prodotto in particolari condizioni ambientali perché acquisti col tempo certe qualità far invecchiare , <>
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Certainit is, that the living became vacant two years ago, exactly as I wasof an age to hold it, and that it was given to another man; and noless certain is it, that I cannot accuse myself of having really doneanything to deserve to lose it.<>
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The two ladies were delighted to see theirdear friend again, called it an age since they had met, and repeatedlyasked what she had been doing with herself since their separation.<>
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This preservative she had now obtained; and atthe age of twenty-seven, without having ever been handsome, she felt allthe good luck of it.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "Are you indeed? And pray what sort of guardians do you make? Does yourcharge give you much trouble? Young ladies of her age are sometimes alittle difficult to manage, and if she has the true Darcy spirit, shemay like to have her own way.<>
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The vicious propensities--the want of principle, which he wascareful to guard from the knowledge of his best friend, could not escapethe observation of a young man of nearly the same age with himself,and who had opportunities of seeing him in unguarded moments, which Mr.Darcy could not have.<>
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Having never even fancied herselfin love before, her regard had all the warmth of first attachment,and, from her age and disposition, greater steadiness than most firstattachments often boast; and so fervently did she value his remembrance,and prefer him to every other man, that all her good sense, and all herattention to the feelings of her friends, were requisite to check theindulgence of those regrets which must have been injurious to her ownhealth and their tranquillity.<>
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She would havecried for assistance, but age and infirmity had long ago deprived herof the power of screaming; she, therefore, watched his motions withfeelings of intense horror which were in no degree diminished by hiscoming close up to her, and shouting in her ear in an agitated, and asit seemed to her, a threatening tone--'Missus!'Now it so happened that Mr. Jingle was walking in the garden close tothe arbour at that moment.<>
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His wardrobe was extensive--very extensive--not strictly classicalperhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment madeprecisely after the fashion of any age or time, but everything was moreor less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles! It may beobjected that they are not adapted to the daylight, but everybody knowsthat they would glitter if there were lamps; and nothing can be clearerthan that if people give fancy-balls in the day-time, and the dressesdo not show quite as well as they would by night, the fault lies solelywith the people who give the fancy-balls, and is in no wise chargeableon the spangles.<>
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But age has its little infirmities of temper, and she was not quitebrought round yet.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'For many hundred years before that time, there had been handed down,from age to age, an old legend, that the illustrious prince beingafflicted with leprosy, on his return from reaping a rich harvestof knowledge in Athens, shunned the court of his royal father, andconsorted moodily with husbandman and pigs.<>
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As soon as she came nearlybelow the tree, Sam began, by way of gently indicating his presence, tomake sundry diabolical noises similar to those which would probablybe natural to a person of middle age who had been afflicted with acombination of inflammatory sore throat, croup, and whooping-cough, fromhis earliest infancy.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'I assure you, my good friend, I have more money than I can everneed; far more than a man at my age can ever live to spend,' said Mr.Pickwick.<>
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But our own humane and enlightened age is only interestedin a science about bad ones.<>
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It's supposed to be what stage-struck young women want, isn't it--to act the beautiful young heroineand marry the beautiful young hero in a shower of bouquets and cheersfrom the gallery? Women of my age naturally have to fall back on actingrespectable matrons, and I was careful to confine myself to that.<>
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