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While perhaps receding in the popular imagination, the image of the "dirty old man" that chases after young women has not disappeared
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They knew because he had been over to Raltain's at least once in each of those weeks since Venna disappeared and told many who asked for her
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All she could hear was the old man smacking his lips
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Before she could open her mouth with a good excuse, the old man began rambling again
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This kooky old man reminded her a little of her Pap Pap, even though he was a little uncouth
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“Why would you want to play that game, old man? It’s old!”
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“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions
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An old man sitting on one of the benches nearby, GABRIEL, looks up at John
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Peter woke up in a room with an old man sitting in a rocking chair
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The old man had a rabbit as a butler, except the rabbit stood on two legs, twitching his whiskers in his little butler outfit
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He passes a small pond, where an old man, ENOCH, fishes
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On the arm of his Moor, the old man straightened his cuffs, walked to the
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The same would be done in any one of the tavernas that the old man
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olives, the old man sipped, nodded his approval, and then beckoned to the proprietor
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They exchanged a few words after which the old man pointed to a young couple
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The old man returned Jen’s smile, revealing tobacco stained teeth
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The old man uncrossed his legs and leaned forward across the coffee table
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slightly, their teeth inexplicably on edge, the old man spoke once more in a soft voice
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suggestion, the old man beckoned the Moor out from the shadows
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feeling the heat of Cretan summer, thinking about the old man and what he had said
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the sight of and the smells of that old man
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The old man
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“I knew you would come”, the old man said
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He then turned back to the old man and said, “Okay, we’re here
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” The old man
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The old man seated himself, crossing his
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For his part the old man sat impassive, chain smoking throughout the couple’s
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reached that point of exhausted satiation, the old man bent down, placed his head on
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They whimpered and sobbed as the old man rose up to
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An OLD MAN, bent back, barefoot, wearing ragged clothes and a beat-up straw hat, sits astride a donkey in the middle of the road
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suddenly, slides to a halt in front of the old man and his donkey
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The old man says nothing, doesn’t move
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Finally, the old man turns his head slowly toward them, slides down off the donkey
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Dave is still scratching his head over the encounter with the old man, but John doesn’t seem concerned
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between Africa and Italy, the old man had been away for four years nearly and I think
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Where a bit of extra cash was concerned the old man always
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old man he was a VC
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Leaving the old man and heading off down
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living with continual resentment, rather than looking at the old man most of the time
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no old man at home, anyway, only the dog, and Cat never thought of her as a moron
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embraced his father, told him he loved him, and then sunk his mouth to the old man’s
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John sits down heavily like an old man in a chair
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and yet was open to the breeze that continually blew in from the sea, the old man lay
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But then the moon…The old man knew now that he was but moments away
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with the ferryman, the old man very much wanted to live
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thanking it for it’s tolerance of a foolish old man
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Drivers flashed their lights and drove through without a look in the old man’s direction
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He was a fascinating old man and who had worked on the grounds for nearly forty years
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When I explained to the telephone operator what I wanted, she just hang up to me! Nevertheless, whenever old-Zarifis calls them for the same reason, the police arrive here in no time so as to restore peace and quiet! When my sister threw a party some months ago, the old man called the police as soon as the clock struck midnight and they arrived five minutes later
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write this chapter; he provided the computer to accomplish the writing; his Christian love for an old man
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The boy child had, when the time came, embraced his father, told him he loved him, and then sunk his mouth to the old man’s neck to taste the acrid, metallic taste of heaven for the first time
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Under the broad limbs of an oak, in a deep hollow that provided both shade and yet was open to the breeze that continually blew in from the sea, the old man lay down at midday, mopped his brow with a red, paisley handkerchief, and reached into his bag for the hard, round goats cheese and the hunk of heavy bread that he had picked up this morning when leaving his hut at first light
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But then the moon…The old man knew now that he was but moments away from death
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He could feel it in his bones and in his waters, and now that it came down to dealing with the ferryman, the old man very much wanted to live
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He woke with a start, hauled himself up on his stout wooden stick, slung his bag back over his shoulder and patted the oak tree, thanking it for it’s tolerance of a foolish old man
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an old man, dizzy in the throws of Parkinson’s,
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An old man, dizzy in the throws of Parkinson’s,
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late enough to waste the day, the wheezy old man
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My other neighbour, the old man, shifted and looked past us through the window
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Out front an old manual-pedal chippongga and wheezing old squeeze-box were the music
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Now if Desa had her old manual yandrille in her bag they could have had quite the ethnic heritage act
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She is like the Old Man of the Sea,
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I’ve been trying to bury the old man
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The old man nodded and said something that would have been hard to understand even if he had teeth in his gums
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I tried not to stare, but the old man looked scared, and fiddled with the leaves of his dinner
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Between taking off his cap, wiping the brim and replacing the sprig of basil behind his ear, the old man fingered his worry beads and prayed
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The old man passed me the cabbage whilst he squeezed past and scrambled onto the gravel
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Behind the desperate couple, the house lights went up, but they were so engrossed in their respective miseries that neither of them noticed a shabby little old man shuffling down one of the aisles and taking a front row seat
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The air around them thickened as the old man in the stalls uncoiled himself and started to slither down the aisle towards the foot of the stage
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The old man chuckled
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The old man disappeared into the hole in the stage amid a shower of sparks and curses
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‘You’ve scored, old man!’ the man said with a grin
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“Shit”, she muttered, “if only I’d listened to the old man”
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A cup of tea was one thing, but when it came to domestic chores, cooking and the generality of tasks that comprise sound household management, Cyberia was a complete novice
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The old man returned with something I didn't expect - a side plate with pieces of fish in batter, one of those dolmades vine-leaf parcels, some local bread, a few olives and a glass of something that didn't look like water to me
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One sunny summer day, when Terry was playing on his own at World Cup in his local park, an old man with a stoop, and who was accompanied by a sour looking fox terrier, called Terry over
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"I prefer it on my own", said Terry, jinking around the old man's legs
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The old man looked wistfully down at the boy
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"Well, I can help you", said the old man
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Nudger before him", said the old man
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"I'll give these shin pads to you on one condition", said the old man
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And so, with a flourish and a bow the old man gave Terry the shin pads, showed him how to tuck them into his socks and then told the dog to give the boy his ball back
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By the time that he looked up to say thank you to the old man, both he and his dog were ambling away into the distance
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Stood there was a little old man, all stooped and grey, with a sour looking fox terrier attached to his wrist by means of a length of packaging string
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"Tezza, babe, we've got a visitor", she called out, although she didn't invite the old man and his dog into their suite
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The old man looked at him
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"Do you remember me?" asked the old man
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"In the park, when you were what, eleven? The dog and me? Blue shin pads?" asked the old man, hopefully
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"What?" the old man blurted out, before regaining some composure
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The old man sucked in his cheeks and shook his head
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The old man sighed, turned back to Terry and said, "Better get this over with, then
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A few seconds later, the old man exchanged the bright, sparkling, monogrammed shin pads for Terry's battered old blue ones
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The old man and the dog turned back towards the lifts
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The little dog cocked his leg and urinated against a large potted aspidistra before turning to the old man and saying, "That's five thousand Bonios you owe me
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To everyone's delight, in the doorway appeared the frail and gallant old man who had played for the crowd in the square
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Hidden away, in the roughest patch of the old manor’s gardens where the ancient oak tree grew, was old Ted’s private nursery bed
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This used to be an old man's haveli
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Is this justice? Should we keep bearing it? I am just an old man, I
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He was wise and powerful, and it was said that he always knew how to give the best advice, even in the middle of the greatest of hardships and miseries, and so, over a mint julep or two by the side of the old man’s pool, the young man and his princess told him about their problem
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The documentary idea was tempting, but the young couple resisted the old man’s inducements
