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Canadian Senators are appointed for life and receive, if they attend three-quarters of the sessions, $4,000 a year. To all intents and purposes they are irremovable, which accounts for the fact that many of them are so decrepit that they have to be trundled to the Senate building in armchairs...
...unwarranted optimism. How you are deluded! This is not even common sense, coming from you. I would say nothing if such talk came from a man in the moon, but from you ... this is too much. Do you not know the ends to which the defenders of this decrepit old society will go? ... Are you waiting to see them kill us first so that you can build us a monument? . . . Aside from the fate that stares Bart and me in the face, I would not care to know that labor has not the courage to face the battle with...
...showing me the remains of the mastodon which you are recovering from the old swamp near Johnstown. The specimen is an unusually perfect and complete skeleton of this interesting, extinct form of life. The individual was an adult in the prime of life, full grown, but not aged and decrepit. Presumably it was bogged down in the swamp and died there...
...including in their number Adam Marty. This year 34 places were set as usual, shining with bright silver and glassware. In the center of the table, amid the decorations, rested the consecrated bottle. Thirty chairs were draped with black, among them Adam Marty's. One survivor was too decrepit to make the journey from his Florida home. But three men dined where once 34 had supped. Too soon will the bottle's cork be pulled...
...morning. They were sorry that the Herald had not said more about such an interesting man. Some readers, indeed, claiming to have perused other accounts, described to their friends the scene at Mr. Osborne's deathbed, dealing in dramatic fashion with the pathetic figure of the aged warden, decrepit but courageous still, dying unattended. These glib ones might have been grateful if someone had warned them that even the Herald's two-inch notice (an Associated Press despatch) contained certain inaccuracies...