How To Use Fourscore In A Sentence
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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
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And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
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Sculptured fourscore no contract phones, unpredictive threat omeprazole, haemophile as of lobelia now be unmoving sericterium hatchet.
Rational Review
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‘Well then, sir,’ said Dr Johnson, ‘you see there can be no more than fourscore men of fashion who can do this.’
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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The Bible tells us that ‘the days of our years are threescore and ten’ or, ‘by reason of strength,’ sometimes fourscore.
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156 Within fourscore years after the death of Christ, 157 the humane Pliny laments the magnitude of the evil which he vainly attempted to eradicate.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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When fourscore years have bronz'd their mummied face,
The Age Reviewed
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The Bible tells us that ‘the days of our years are threescore and ten’ or, ‘by reason of strength,’ sometimes fourscore.
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At last one Mr. Wood a mean ordinary man, a hard-ware dealer, procured a patent under his Majesty's Broad Seal to coin fourscore and ten thousand pounds in copper for this kingdom, which patent however did not oblige any one here to take them, unless they pleased.
Political Pamphlets
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And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
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These were the casual sallies of his pride; but the avarice of the chagan was a more steady and tractable passion: a rich and regular supply of silk apparel, furniture, and plate, introduced the rudiments of art and luxury among the tents of the Scythians; their appetite was stimulated by the pepper and cinnamon of India; the annual subsidy or tribute was raised from fourscore to one hundred and twenty thousand pieces of gold; and after each hostile interruption, the payment of the arrears, with exorbitant interest, was always made the first condition of the new treaty.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
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The old cottage sold to Robert had been in the family near fourscore years.
Letter 413
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To talk over Hills and dales at fourscore miles distance!
Letter 78
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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.
Boycotted And Other Stories
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Now this King was become a very old man, weakened and wasted with age and sickness and decrepitude; for he had lived an hundred and fourscore years and had no child, male or female, by reason whereof he was ever in cark and care from morning to night and from night to morn.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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“I could be sorry for these men,” he said, “ay, and for that poor Queen, but what avail earthly sorrows to a man of fourscore? — and it is a rare dropping morning for the early colewort.”
The Abbot
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No doubt, some of these Californians applauded the fact that a woman who is skirting that mythic age of fourscore still has the wherewithal to perform, and to do it so well.
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But we confess that it is a little mortifying to our pride of time and place, to meet an old beggar-woman, who from the dust on her tattered brogues has evidently marched miles from her last night's wayside howf, and who holds out her withered palm for charity, at an hour when a cripple of fourscore might have been supposed sleeping on her pallet of straw.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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When fourscore years have bronz'd their mummied face,
The Age Reviewed
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There are fourscore of them; and but that each carries a yager rifle in his hand, a knife in his belt, and a
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
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Then she took reckoning of the dead and found that he had slain fourscore of the Knights, and other twenty had taken to flight. 202 When she saw what work he had made with them she said to him, Allah bless thee, O Sharrkan!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The guards in the towers stared in disbelief at the sight of fourscore Gauntlet Knights pounding toward them.
The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Seven
