1 He was more than six feet high, was in the prime of life, had small feet for his height, wore coarse, square-toed boots and smoked a Trichinopoly cigar.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 2 The hermit, as if wishing to answer to the confidence of his guest, threw back his cowl, and showed a round bullet head belonging to a man in the prime of life.
3 His charitable kindness had been rearing a prime comfort for himself.
4 'A prime plant,' observed Master Charley Bates.
5 It was the prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad and flourishing.
6 "He was the last you'd have expected to drop off in the prime of life," said Humphrey.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 7 He has always, however, been a prime favourite with the racing public, and has never yet disappointed them, so that even at those odds enormous sums of money have been laid upon him.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze 8 I came out of this age of ours, this ripe prime of the human race, when Fear does not paralyse and mystery has lost its terrors.
9 He seldom spoke to Laurie, but he looked at him often, and a shadow would pass across his face, as if regretting his own lost youth, as he watched the young man in his prime.
10 By children now in their prime.
11 To love and labor in their prime.
12 There is no man living, however strong and in his prime, who could move it from its place, for it is a marvellous curiosity which I made with my very own hands.
13 Summer was already past its prime, when Edgar reluctantly yielded his assent to their entreaties, and Catherine and I set out on our first ride to join her cousin.
14 He was then past his prime, being twenty-eight years and three quarters old, of which he had reigned about seven in great felicity, and generally victorious.
15 At last we entered the palace, and proceeded into the chamber of presence, where I saw the king seated on his throne, attended on each side by persons of prime quality.