"Me old fella boy too much," the one-legged
Methuselah quavered.
Oxen tread the wheat from the ear, after the fashion prevalent in the time of
Methuselah. There is not a wheelbarrow in the land--they carry everything on their heads, or on donkeys, or in a wicker-bodied cart, whose wheels are solid blocks of wood and whose axles turn with the wheel.
If the old woman lives to the age of
Methuselah, he won't die.
"By God, master," said Sancho, "the island that I cannot govern with the years I have, I'll not be able to govern with the years of
Methuselah; the difficulty is that the said island keeps its distance somewhere, I know not where; and not that there is any want of head in me to govern it."
George's, Hanover Square, and Lord
Methuselah hobbled in after.
History is abundantly supplied with examples, from
Methuselah to Old Parr, but some notable instances of longevity are less well known.
Why was it that
Methuselah lived nine hundred years, and `Old Parr'one hundred and sixty-nine, and yet that poor Lucy, with four men's blood in her poor veins, could not live even one day?
Strictly speaking, this was incorrect, unless one counted
Methuselah; but perhaps Mr Galloway spoke figuratively.
"Now, you are my witness, Miss Summerson, I say I don't care-but if he was to come to our house with his great, shining, lumpy forehead night after night till he was as old as
Methuselah, I wouldn't have anything to say to him.
You will be as old as
Methuselah, if you wait till I am your wife.
One old man, who has been a close observer of Nature, and seems as thoroughly wise in regard to all her operations as if she had been put upon the stocks when he was a boy, and he had helped to lay her keel -- who has come to his growth, and can hardly acquire more of natural lore if he should live to the age of
Methuselah -- told me -- and I was surprised to hear him express wonder at any of Nature's operations, for I thought that there were no secrets between them -- that one spring day he took his gun and boat, and thought that he would have a little sport with the ducks.
'A man may live to be as old as
Methuselah,' said Mr.