How To Use Fortieth In A Sentence
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I'm in my fortieth year, but I am sound in wind and limb.
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I continued my experiments in heliochromy for a period of about two years, during which time I made many photographs in colours, and discovered a method of developing the coloured image, which enabled me to shorten the exposure to one-fortieth of the previously-required time.
Men of Invention and Industry
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Since Natura had been in what they call a settled state in the world, it had always been his custom to distinguish the anniversary of that day which gave him birth, by providing a polite entertainment for his friends and kindred: he had now attained to his fortieth year, and though it had been that in which he had known more poignant disquiets, than in any one of his whole life before; yet thinking that to neglect the observation of it now, would give occasion for remarks on his reasons for so doing, he resolved to treat it with the usual ceremony.
Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
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Well, today is Dr. D's fortieth birthday, so you all should drop by his site and wish him a happy birthday.
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She knew the answer: people desperate for fortieth anniversary presents.
JUST BETWEEN US
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This same year, that is to say the fortieth year after the passion of our
The Golden Legend, vol. 3
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Parties in Hugh's were always fun and a fortieth wedding anniversary was sure to be a splendid affair.
JUST BETWEEN US
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On my fortieth birthday I had reached a fork in the road, and I decided to give up working for somebody else and start my own business.
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This is the measure of the Truma" (or, of the oblation yielded to the priests), A good eye yieldeth one out of forty; that is, the fortieth part.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Speaking of sound engineers (and, indeed, of sound men), a gentleman of the Australian nation is celebrating his fortieth birthday today.
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In traditional families, a new bride's parents visit her in her new home on the fortieth day after the marriage and give her a trousseau.
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They were very near to a village called Arbela; and on the fortieth day after, he came himself with his whole army: and as the enemy sallied out boldly upon him, the left wing of his army gave way; but he appearing with a body of men, put those to flight who were already conquerors, and recalled his men that ran away.
Antiquities of the Jews
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They arranged a very interesting event to celebrate their parents'fortieth wedding anniversary.
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His approximate year of birth is calculated from his comment in Sefer ha-Mevaqqesh (9; trans. 2), written in October-November 1263 (Heshvan 5024), that he had passed the midpoint of seventy years and was approaching his fortieth year.
Shem Tov Ibn Falaquera
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John and I celebrate our fortieth anniversary next month.
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The Feast of the Ascension marks the fortieth day after Easter, as Jesus is taken up to heaven in the cloud.
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In 1953, the National Association celebrated its Jubilee and the District its fortieth anniversary.
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It seemed to me her fortieth birthday must be approaching.
The Bird House
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As we have seen, he both lectured on Mozart's Fortieth Symphony and used it as a model for a prentice symphony of his own.
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On my fortieth birthday I had reached a fork in the road, and I decided to give up working for somebody else and start my own business.
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Greek “Asper,” some silver; and representing, when at par, the fortieth of a piastre, the latter = 2d. 2/5ths.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Already some of those fearless frontierswomen, the amazons of the Fortieth, had come ahead with bag, baggage and babies and moved into the log huts of their lords as contentedly as they would have taken quarters at the Grand Central in Omaha, but Mesdames Flight and
Under Fire
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`You've got to have a party for your fortieth wedding anniversary,' Hugh went on, munching his sandwich appreciatively.
JUST BETWEEN US
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The name mammoth, which is probably of Tartar origin, Witsen appears to wish to derive from Behemoth, spoken of in the fortieth chapter of the Book of Job.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
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(A minim is the fortieth part of a crescent.) "Does your good Majesty mean to beggar me?" whined Pug.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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fortieth," that landing on the fourth storey where man discovers and picks up the magic key which opens life to its recesses, and reveals its monotonous and deceptive labyrinth; conscious, moreover, of his value, of the importance of his mission, and of the great name he bore, he cared nothing for the opinion of such persons as these.
Tartarin On The Alps
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She had said the same thing the year before when he'd gone to Europe without her for the fortieth anniversary of D-day.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
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In 1967 average real (inflation-adjusted) income for the middle class (families with incomes between the fortieth and sixtieth percentiles of the income distribution) was about $43,000; in 2007 it was more than $61,000.8 This increase does not include the increased generosity of nonwage and nonsalary benefits such as health care, pensions, flexible workweeks, more family leave, more vacation, and holidays.
RETURN TO PROSPERITY
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Sweden is ranked fortieth, which is still in the upper quartile of countries.
Voice For Liberty in Wichita
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She had said the same thing the year before when he'd gone to Europe without her for the fortieth anniversary of D-day.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
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It was the fortieth anniversary of the death of the composer.
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The pipe-bowls and stems always remain of the size appropriated by etiquette to the use of the harem; but the strongest and most pungent sorts of tobacco are not unseldom smoked, until the mouth, which, according to the assurance of the poet, in the bloom of its youth breathed forth ambergiris and musk, in its fortieth year acquires so strong a smell that the lady can be scented from a distance.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
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What is called effluxion is a destruction of the embryo within the first week, while abortion occurs up to the fortieth day; and the greater number of such embryos as perish do so within the space of these forty days.
The History of Animals
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But the feast then had no proper name; it was simply called the fortieth day after Epiphany.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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In 1953, the National Association celebrated its Jubilee and the District its fortieth anniversary.
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She had said the same thing the year before when he'd gone to Europe without her for the fortieth anniversary of D-day.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
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; Italian as quaresima; and Spanishas cuaresma, these all deriving from the Latin quadragesima, meaning 'fortieth'.
CathNews
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It is said in the same revelations that it was showed to her that the fortieth day after the soul departed from her body she was so assumpt into heaven, and also that when our blessed Lady spake to her, she said: After the Ascension of our Lord a whole year, and as many days more as be from the Ascension unto her assumption, she overlived.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4
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On my fortieth birthday I had reached a fork in the road, and I decided to give up working for somebody else and start my own business.
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The seventh day after death, the fortieth day, and annual remembrance are the accepted way of respecting the dead.
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He dredged it up again as an issue in 2004 when he voted against a symbolic resolution honoring the law on its fortieth anniversary.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Paul's Fetish on Civil Rights
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THOSE who read to the fortieth page of this tale, then close the work for ever and call the author a wild enthusiast who deals in extravagant legends and supernatural fictions, will do him the greatest injustice.
A Review of 'Alroy'
