He stopped counting when he reached fifty dollars and gave the rest to Pop, who thumbed the bank notes in a frenzy of greed until he saw that he had two hundred dollars in his possession. The glee which he tried to hide, the crafty suspicion that this was not all of it the returning conviction that Bud was actually almost penniless, and the cunning assumption of senility, was pictured on his face. Pop's poor, miserly soul was for a minute shamelessly revealed. Distraught though he was, Bud stared and shuddered a little at the spectacle.英文原著 · 《Cow-Country》
Senility, 372; in witnesses, 374; types of, 374; memory in, 375. Sensation, subjective, 191; and nerv- ous system, 192. Sense-perception, importance of, 187; relation to optical and acoustical knowledge, 189; and social status, 190. Senses, of children, 367; vicariousness of the, 193. SERGI, 319, 350. SFR'.',OFF, 410. Servants, as sources of information, 63. Sexl as submerged cause of crime, 322; as piety, 323; as ennui, 324; as conceit, 325.英文原著 · 《Criminal Psychology》
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way and imminent as indicated above.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 5》
[1] Man in the course of his life falls away more and more from the specifically HUMAN type of his early years, but the Ape in the course of his short life goes very much farther along the road of degradation and premature senility." (Man and Woman, by Havelock Ellis, p.英文原著 · 《Pagan and Christian Creeds》
Nay, since Books, like invisible scouts, permeate the whole habitable globe, and Timbuctoo itself is not safe from British Literature, may not some Copy find out even the mysterious basket-bearing Stranger, who in a state of extreme senility perhaps still exists; and gently force even him to disclose himself; to claim openly a son, in whom any father may feel pride?英文原著 · 《Sartor Resartus》