quadragenarian

He, a stalwart, well-oiled quadragenarian, shone with sweat from his exertions, brandishing cooked pigs.

Vailima Letters 2005

Two hours later, what had been the erect image of a gigantic coal – porter turned miraculously white, was now no more than a medley of disjected members; the quadragenarian torso prone against the pedestal; the lascivious countenance leering down the kitchen stair; the legs, the arms, the hands, and even the fingers, scattered broadcast on the lobby floor.

The Wrong Box 2004

Musil, who describes an incestuous passion between brother and sister, and Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, which describes the passion of a quadragenarian for

LOVE DENIS DE ROUGEMONT 1968

Two hours later, what had been the erect image of a gigantic coal-porter turned miraculously white, was now no more than a medley of disjected members; the quadragenarian torso prone against the pedestal; the lascivious countenance leering down the kitchen stair; the legs, the arms, the hands, and even the fingers, scattered broadcast on the lobby floor.

The Wrong Box Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

FIRMIANI, a respectable quadragenarian who in 1813 married the lady who afterwards became Mme. Octave de Camps.

Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

Now when a woman decides to love a man for what she can get out of him it is better to take a sexagenarian Excellency than a quadragenarian secretary; there's more profit and less annoyance.

Bureaucracy Honor�� de Balzac 1824

But delectable Diane isn't the only quadragenarian actress who fills our Twinkie.

Attuworld.com 2008