"Joseph Scribbin (55) is a lone man, an example of the species..."

"He was a man of fifty-five who had lived for twenty-three years in Sevenoaks and came to London every day by train..."

"Harry remorsefully feels the bulk, two hundred thirty pounds the kindest scales say, that has enwrapped him at the age of fifty-five.."

"“Hell,  I’m fifty-one,” he said, subtracting four  years. “Can’t say I feel it.” "

"... he was what Shelley would have been if Shelley had lived to fifty-five and grown a beard..."

"I've pretty well done with my wild oats — turned fifty-five. I want to settle down in my chimney-corner..."

"Major Parry was fifty-five, and, like Gorse’s friend Ronnie, he drank and talked and thought about women in a silly way too much..."

"... an immense man, as many stomachs as he had chins, and already, at fifty-five, with as many heart attacks as chins and stomachs combined..."

"When I think of my condition at the age of fifty-five when I bought the ticket, all is grief..."