fourscore

How To Use fourscore In A Sentence

• So I'll see your "fourscore and seven years ago", and raise you a "girlfriend in a coma, I know I know it's serious"? Archive 2008-02-01
• And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
• Sculptured fourscore no contract phones, unpredictive threat omeprazole, haemophile as of lobelia now be unmoving sericterium hatchet. Rational Review
• ‘Well then, sir,’ said Dr Johnson, ‘you see there can be no more than fourscore men of fashion who can do this.’
• And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people awork. 2 Chronicles 2.
• In contrast, during the period from 1990 to 2003, NASA flew about fourscore shuttle missions, allowing it to launch and repair the Hubble Space Telescope and partially build what is now known as the International Space Station.
• But the idea of fourscore years past in hostility against God, but the idea of a thousand crimes starting into light, and calling for vengeance; by their number and their atrocity exciting a fearful looking for of judgment — this, this presents a just ground of terror and aston - ishment. Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague
• Men had dreamed that there is a witch there, walking alone through the cold courts and corridors of marmorean palaces, fearfully beautiful and still for all her fourscore centuries, singing the second oldest song, which was taught her by the sea, shedding tears for loneliness from eyes that would madden armies, yet will she not call her dragons home -- Carcassonne is terribly guarded. A Dreamer's Tales
• Saladin condescended to complain; rejoiced in the denial of justice, and at the head of fourscore thousand horse and foot invaded the Holy Land. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• The Bible tells us that ‘the days of our years are threescore and ten’ or, ‘by reason of strength,’ sometimes fourscore.