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 1    1|               only. I lived there two years and two months. At present
 2    1|              I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have
 3    1|            you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a
 4    1|               trade for ten or twenty years, in order that they may
 5    1|           desired to spend my life in years past, it would probably
 6    1|                              For many years I was self-appointed inspector
 7    1|               which will last as many years, thick pantaloons for two
 8    1|              take from ten to fifteen years of the laborer's life, even
 9    1|              twenty, thirty, or forty years, that they may become the
10    1|              for two, three, and four years, it being understood that
11    1|               course of three or four years, when the country became
12    1|           from the experience of both years, not being in the least
13    1|             lived there more than two years - not counting potatoes,
14    1|                It was, for nearly two years after this, rye and Indian
15    1|                 I learned from my two years' experience that it would
16    1|            the end of every fifty-two years, in the belief that it was
17    1|                    For more than five years I maintained myself thus
18    1|          found that it would take ten years to get under way in that,
19    1|          villages; and thus, by a few years of philanthropic activity,
20    3|               saw how I could let the years run off, buffet the winter
21    3|             does not know it for many years when a poet has put his
22    3|         putting the experience of two years into one. As I have said,
23    3|             assure you. And every few years a new lot is laid down and
24    3|              life - I wrote this some years ago - that were worth the
25    3|               twelve-month, or twelve years, beforehand with sufficient
26    4|               Zoroaster, thousands of years ago, travelled the same
27    4|              that shell, in a hundred years. The one hundred and twenty-five
28    5|         ligatures, and after a twelve years' labor bestowed upon it,
29    6|             of the harmless sky eight years ago. Men frequently say
30    7|             He was about twenty-eight years old, and had left Canada
31    7|            his father's house a dozen years before to work in the States,
32    7|               live out his threescore years and ten a child. He was
33    8|                       When I was four years old, as I well remember,
34    8|             it was only about fifteen years since the land was cleared,
35    8|               nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens,
36   10|               grown deaf in his later years, but he occasionally hummed
37   10|             Once, in the winter, many years ago, when I had been cutting
38   10|        possible to do for twenty-five years; and, on the other hand,
39   10|               I told them, that a few years later I was accustomed to
40   10|            has risen steadily for two years, and now, in the summer
41   10|              as high as it was thirty years ago, and fishing goes on
42   10|          appears thus to require many years for its accomplishment.
43   10|               that a dozen or fifteen years hence the water will again
44   10|               size indicates how many years have elapsed since the last
45   10|            shore as it did a thousand years ago.~ ~
46   10|       frequent this pond nearly sixty years ago, when it was dark with
47   10|               but lasted a great many years before it became water-logged
48   10|            daily for more than twenty years - Why, here is Walden, the
49   10|             that I discovered so many years ago; where a forest was
50   10|               or glaucous color. Many years since I used to go there
51   10|           circumstance. About fifteen years ago you could see the top
52   10|              this tree ten or fifteen years before. As near as he could
53   10|            end up. His father, eighty years old, could not remember
54   11|                      In the completed years,~ ~
55   12|              fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my
56   12|             found repeatedly, of late years, that I cannot fish without
57   12| contemporaries, I had rarely for many years used animal food, or tea,
58   12|              is to be regretted, with years I have grown more coarse
59   13|              Presidency of Polk, five years before the passage of Webster'
60   13|        fiercely spitting at me. A few years before I lived in the woods
61   14|              mortar on them was fifty years old, and was said to be
62   14|              shore. After soaking two years and then lying high six
63   14|             Michaux, more than thirty years ago, says that the price
64   14|           woodchopper. It is now many years that men have resorted to
65   14|             of the earth. In previous years I had often gone prospecting
66   14|                Stumps thirty or forty years old, at least, will still
67   15|             was standing only a dozen years ago, though it had long
68   16|            upon me, told me that many years ago he took his gun one
69   17|         ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years old which was as good as
70   17|               since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed,
71   18|             heard for many a thousand years, methought, whose note I
72   19|               though it is Eve or six years since I trod it, it is still
73   19|            farmer's kitchen for sixty years, first in Connecticut, and
74   19|               in the living tree many years earlier still, as appeared
75   19|         perchance gnawing out now for years by the astonished family