People respectfully called him the venerable Zhu.
Even in venerable Jermyn Street, sales are down.
Why, the venerable gent could have passed for 73.
On the walls of this venerable shrine is written the precepts of the seven sages.
Bank bosses peered enviously at the profits and risk-taking prowess of the venerable investment bank.
The writings of the venerable Origen were among his favorite targets.
The level of access that the venerable publication has continued to provide has been laudable.
Of course, some bodies, such as the venerable Bank for International Settlements (see article), still do a fine job.
His pink face, beneath a mass of snow-white hair, which "when his peruke was off was a venerable sight," is increasingly both benevolent and majestic.
More venerable abodes are fronted by thick red doors outside of which perch either a pair of lions or a pair of drum stones.
While a few miles distant, toward the north, the venerable campanile of the Mission San Juan stood silhouetted in purplish black against the flaming east.
The classic VW camper van is a venerable vehicle on which rides-usually rather slowly-a carefree image of life on the open road.
Bestowed it on the white hair and venerable brow of age; on long-tried integrity; on solid wisdom and sad-coloured experience;
IF IT is the shards of ancient Greek POTS or oodles of romantically bulging female flesh that interest you then head around the corner to Zagreb's venerable Klovicevi Dvori gallery.
Juan Manuel Fangio and Nino Farina won titles at even more venerable ages and he has the talent, experience and artfulness, some call it low cunning, to make it a success.
You can see, this is how the unseen rule of finance — the Wall Street Journal is a venerable newspaper and source of information about finance, but it's not making money.
Quite a number of venerable fathers of officers in the revolutionary army, old men who were opium-addicts and inseparable from their pipes, have been disarmed by the "emperors" (as the peasants are called derisively by the evil gentry).
The women of Paikuo in Hengshan County gathered in force and swarmed into their ancestral temple, firmly planted their backsides in the seats and joined in the eating and drinking, while the venerable clan bigwigs had willy-nilly to let them do as they pleased.
