It must be recollected that, during our narrative, "Time has rolled his ceaseless course," and season has succeeded season, until the infant, in its utter helplessness to lift its little hands for succour, has sprung up into a fair blue-eyed little maiden of nearly eight years old, light as a fairy in her proportions, bounding as a fawn in her gait; her eyes beaming with joy, and her cheeks suffused with the blush of health, when tripping over the sea-girt hills; meek and attentive when listening to the precepts of her fond and adopted parent.
— from Newton Forster by Frederick Marryat

Old Mr. Peregrine, a man of nearly eighty years of age, is splendid fun when he is watching his boys play cricket.
— from A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire by J. Arthur (Joseph Arthur) Gibbs

Lyon Berners turned towards the speaker, a grave and stern old man of nearly eighty years, a retired judge, who had come to the mask ball escorting his grand-daughters.
— from Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

The elder of the two male gipsies was a man of nearly eighty years of age.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

Why then the revoking my consent does annul, or make of none effect your oath; so you may unswear it again.
— from The Comedies of William Congreve: Volume 1 [of 2] by William Congreve

"He'll be as good a Squire as his father before him," said an old man of nearly eighty years, hobbling up close to Hetty as he spoke.
— from Dr. Rumsey's Patient: A Very Strange Story by L. T. Meade