"...he becomes one of the hundreds of skinny whining codgers in and around this city, men who have sucked the same brick tit for sixty years and have dried up with it..."

"Mr Bankes made it entirely unnecessary for her to speak by his rapture. For such it was considering his age, turned sixty..."

"He hated such objects, hated the stink of hospitals. He was sixty years old. He knew the route he, too, must go, and soon...."

"This sudden big heartache in a man of sixty, a practical, physical, healthy-minded, and experienced man, was deeply unpleasant..."

"M. Pierre was a plump grey man of sixty, with a pathetic, mean little mouth, a monocle in his eye...."

"The judge himself, even at sixty, was a wonderfully handsome man..."

"Reverend Horace Pedrick was a skeletal ignorant man of sixty. His delusions centred about money. He had never himself had enough..."

"...malleable youth felt crushed beneath the weight of this broad-shouldered, red-faced sixty-year-old, with white flames that encircled his head, painfully ragged lips, and a long, narrow beard that reached down to his high-buttoned, clerical-style vest."