of age

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*of age

old enough to marry, buy alcohol, or to sign legal agreements. (*Typically: be ~; Come ~.) Now that Mary is of age, she can buy her own car. When I'm of age, I'm going to get married and move to the city.

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The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men's characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. The Republic by Plato View in context The son, a steady respectable young man, was amply provided for by the fortune of his mother, which had been large, and half of which devolved on him on his coming of age. Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane View in context I knew true love and true union before I was twenty years of age. The Two Destinies by Collins, Wilkie View in context			oblige by oblige to do oblige with obliterate from obsessed with obtain for occasion occupy occupy oneself occupy with occur to ocean oceans of odd odd man out odds odds and ends odds are against one odds-on favorite odor odor of sanctity of a certain age of a mind to of a piece of a sort of age of all people of all places of all things Of all things! of benefit of course of interest of late of mature years of note of old of one mind of own accord of own making of service of sorts of the essence of the first water of the moment of the old school of the persuasion of the sort of two minds off off and running			Of a certainty of a different kind of a kind of a kind of a like mind of a like mind of a mind to of a morning of a morning of a muchness of a muchness of a piece of a piece of a piece of a piece of a piece of a piece Of A Revolution Of A Revolution Setlist Archive of a single mind of a sort of a sudden of a sudden of a surety of a surety of a surety of a surety Of a truth of a twitter of a twitter of age of all people of all places of all sorts of all the cheek of all the cheek of all the nerve of all the nerve Of all the nerve! of all things Of all things! of all time of all time of an equal size of an evening of an evening of any description of any kind or sort Of Arrowe Hill Of Athens Plutarch Of Athens Plutarch of bad character of benefit Of Blessed Memory of bone ground substance of bone ground substance of bone ground substance Of Brandenburg Albert I of character of choice of choice

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