Word: graybeards
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...nothing in this world above to equal woman." A young Greek asks Captain Michales' centenarian father: "How has life seemed to you during those hundred years. Grandfather?" "Like a glass of cool water, my child." replies the old man. "And are you still thirsty, Grandfather?" "The graybeard raised his hand . . . 'Woe to him,' he cried in a loud voice, as though he were pronouncing a curse, 'woe to him who has slaked his thirst!' " For Captain Michales himself there is only one thirst more unslakable than life -freedom-and at novel...
...beauty of flesh and the living colors of earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid of love, I who love love? . . . Why was I born without a skin, O God, that I must wear armor in order to touch or to be touched? Or, rather, Old Graybeard, why the devil was I ever born at all?" Brown himself shares the mood of despair: "This is Daddy's bedtime secret for today: Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue...
...other two regents: Patriarch Miron Cristea of the Rumanian Orthodox Church, a venerable graybeard who barely survived a desperate illness last month; and sprightly Prince Nicholas of Rumania, a younger son of Dowager Queen Marie who minds his mother in matters of state but sometimes ignores her injunctions not to frequent night clubs...