OLDER in Classic Quotes

1  My grandparents looked very little older.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I

2  In some ways you're older than boys of your age.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIII

3  She's the only person I know who never gets any older.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I

4  I can't see how my Anton looks any older than the day I married him.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I

5  But he was older than she was, and he was too kind to treat her like that.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV

6  The older one, who wore shoes and stockings, came to the door to admit me.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I

7  She taught the little children herself, and her husband, the harpist, taught the older ones.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII

8  She's not much older than you, twelve or thirteen, maybe, and she's as bright as a new dollar.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I

9  When I stopped my horses opposite them, the older boy took his brother by the hand and came toward me.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I

10  To escape from his predicament he ran away with a widow six years older than himself, who owned a half-section.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX

11  As I grew older, I came to believe that it was only because she was so often thinking of things that were far away.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II

12  At sight of grandmother, he snatched off his fur cap, greeting her in a deep, rolling voice which seemed older than he.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV

13  With me they had been like older brothers; had restrained their speech and manners out of care for me, and given me so much good comradeship.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I

14  She was four years older than I, to be sure, and had seen more of the world; but I was a boy and she was a girl, and I resented her protecting manner.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII

15  Nevertheless, I stole furtive glances behind me now and then to see that no avenging mate, older and bigger than my quarry, was racing up from the rear.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII

16  Their talk seemed to open to one the brilliant world in which they lived; every sentence made one older and wiser, every pleasantry enlarged one's horizon.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III

17  The older girls, who helped to break up the wild sod, learned so much from life, from poverty, from their mothers and grandmothers; they had all, like Antonia, been early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX