How To Use Threescore In A Sentence
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I knew where he is, replied threescore and five; the wicked rogue, the butcherly dog, the murderer!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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For, beside the compest that is carried out of the husbandmen's yards, ditches, ponds, dung-houses, or cities and great towns, we have with us a kind of white marl which is of so great force that if it be cast over a piece of land but once in threescore years it shall not need of any further compesting.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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There will soon be threescore and ten miles of permanent distance between us; and now that your friendship and friendly correspondence is entwisted with the heart-strings of my enjoyment of life, I must indulge myself in a happy day of "The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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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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An Act for granting a Royal Aid to the King's Majesty, of Twenty-four Hundred Threescore and Seventeen Thousand and Five Hundred Pounds, to be raised, levied, and paid, in the Space of Three Years.
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All and every one of these magistrates, together with the justices of peace, and the jurymen of the hundreds, amounting in the whole number to threescore and six, are the prerogative troop or phylarch of the tribe.
The Commonwealth of Oceana
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Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold.
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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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Then must thou fetch water in barrels and fill the four fountains; after which thou must take three hundred and threescore and six wooden bowls and crumble the cracknels therein and pour of the lentil-pottage over each and carry every monk and patriarch his bowl.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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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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But at threescore and upward, men's courage turns cauldrife; and they that canna win a living, must not endanger the small sustenance of their age.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Next day, he again repaired to the market-street where he showed a friendly bias towards the merchants and borrowed of them more money, which he distributed to the poor: nor did he leave doing thus twenty days, till he had borrowed threescore thousand dinars, and still there came no baggage, no, nor a burning plague. 38 At last folk began to clamour for their money and say, The merchant
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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I was 70 last year and there is something about achieving threescore years and 10, isn't there?
Times, Sunday Times
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It is not many yeares since (worthy assembly) that in Bulloigne there dwelt a learned Physitian, a man famous for skill, and farre renowned, whose name was Master Albert, and being growne aged, to the estimate of threescore and tenne yeares: hee had yet such a sprightly disposition, that though naturall heate and vigour had quite shaken hands with him, yet amorous flames and desires had not wholly forsaken him.
The Decameron
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Embalming required 40 days (although this was an Egyptian custom, the Egyptians recognized the period of 40 for the preparation of going into a new life, what they called the afterlife) (Gen 50: 3 KJV) And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
British Blogs
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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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There has been peace in the land for a threescore years at least; what could possibly happen now?
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Having posed a similar problem in Tristram Shandy, Sterne rudely knocks it down by informing the reader that ‘Obadiah had not got above threescore yards from the stable-yard before he met with Dr Slop’.
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Her hair was as grey as someone of threescore and ten years old and cropped short.
