"Nonagenarian" Quotes from Famous Books
... Abookir, 1801. If you take care to pronounce the victory A-book-er, you may possibly get a jest out of it in connection with a welshing transaction on the turf, when you can call it "the defeat of A-book-er." Good at a hunting-breakfast where the host is a nonagenarian, who can observe "1801?—the year of ... — Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., January 3, 1891. • Various |