(1) From a dark courtyard came a sound of oaths and blows, followed by shrill screams, and, huddled upon a damp doorstep, he saw the crook-backed forms of poverty and eld .(2) Shakespeare's Claudio is told u2018Thou hast nor youth nor ageu2019; conversely, this actor seems to have only youth and eld , with fribble in between.(3) For Billy Rose, at present busily revamping the theatre, it was like eld times.(4) It was no more the withered limb of eld than my own; it was a rounded supple member, with smooth fingersu2026(5) Like Youth, the play appears to contain autobiographical elements, but here the subject is eld .