The proverbial "threescore years and ten" was an old story with him, and even the "fourscore" awarded to the strong was receding into the distance. From Wordnik.com. [Boycotted And Other Stories] Reference
And he said to him: Take thy bill, and write fourscore. From Wordnik.com. [The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union.] Reference
And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
The foot are fourscore thousand, the horse are thousands ten. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
Until past fourscore he rode to the death of a stag as well as any. From Wordnik.com. [Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles] Reference
Picture to yourself a man "fourscore and upwards," like Lear, and like. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
One early June day some fourscore years ago, it was 1837 to be precise. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Michigan] Reference
St. Maws is garrisoned by an able-bodied person of fourscore, a widower. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
He died in his hermitage on the 30th day of March, in 605, being fourscore years old. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 24: Canticle of Canticles The Challoner Revision] Reference
During this procession there died in one hour's time fourscore of those who assisted at it. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Whether or not he achieves this order of success will be all the same fourscore years hence. From Wordnik.com. [Men in the Making] Reference
German families, consisting of about fourscore persons, came and set down near their countrymen. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Wordsworth, living the life of a recluse near the beautiful lakes of Westmoreland, lasted to fourscore. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
At a much later period, at the triumph of Probus, A.D. 281, about fourscore gladiators exhibited a similar courage. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
He afterwards served in a regiment of dragoons, where by prudent management he saved no less than fourscore pounds. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
By seven of the clock he had got together good and valiant knights to the number of fourscore, all horsed and armed. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
And went to the king, promising him three hundred and sixty talents of silver, and out of other revenues fourscore talents. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 46: 2 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference
Their brethren also throughout all the house of Issachar, were numbered fourscore and seven thousand most valiant men for war. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 13: 1 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision] Reference
Its moral progress must go on in an unending existence, of which its life of fourscore years on earth is scarce the childhood. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
And there were slain in the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, forty thousand were made prisoners, and as many sold. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 46: 2 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference
John, when he was upwards of fourscore years, continually taught this by his constant text, ` Little children, love one another? '. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
She must at least have reached the age of fourscore when on one occasion she had lingered at my mother's house until darkness fell. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
And she was a widow until fourscore and four years: who departed not from the temple, by fastings and prayers serving night and day. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision] Reference
The enjoyment of contemplating, at the advanced age of near fourscore years, the happy condition of his country cheered the last hours of. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Blumenbach at eighty-eight, and Humboldt at fourscore and ten, are some of the cases which make such a supposition altogether reasonable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
Juda and of Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men and warriors, to fight against Israel, and to bring back his kingdom to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 14: 2 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision] Reference
There was a clear stream of running water within shot of our cannon, and about it were fourscore or an hundred of the enemy's rabble, drawing water. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
It was barely sufficient for fourteen days, and even with the fourscore small fish they had caught it was "a poor relief for so many hungry bellies.". From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Gathered together fourscore thousand men, and all the horsemen, and came against the Jews, thinking to take the city, and make it a habitation of the Gentiles. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 46: 2 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference
That he might shew the riches of the glory of his kingdom, and the greatness, and boasting of his power, for a long time, to wit, for a hundred and fourscore days. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 19: Esther The Challoner Revision] Reference
It would be no extravagant estimate to believe that during the fourscore years and more which have since elapsed, the demon of play, enthroned along the whole of the. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Jehu had prepared him fourscore men without, and said to them: If any of the men escape, whom I have brought into your hands, he that letteth him go, shall answer life for life. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 12: 4 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
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