Sentence example with the word 'fourscore'

fourscore

boxcar, eighty, five and twenty, fourscore and ten, ninety, quindecim, septuagenarian, sexagesimo-quarto, sixty-four, thirty-two, twelve, twenty-four, twoscore

Definition adj. being ten more than seventy

Last update: November 3, 2015


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It seems very probable that the fourscore thousand hewers employed by Solomon for cutting timber did not confine their operations simply to what would now be termed cedars and fir-trees.   [Please select]

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I have also put fourscore arrows among the valises on the pack-horses.   [Please select]

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He would have lacked but three years of fourscore come Whitsuntide.   [Please select]

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Was she carrying enough milk to buy a hundred, or even fourscore, good eggs.   [Please select]

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From seventeen years till now, almost fourscore, Here lived I, but now live here no more.   [Please select]

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At seventeen years many their fortunes seek, But at fourscore it is too late a week.   [Please select]

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As he came up, Zoroaster and his fourscore men threw up their hands.   [Please select]

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The first to manifest itself in childhood, it was still active at the age of fourscore.   [Please select]

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By seven of the clock he had got together good and valiant knights to the number of fourscore, all horsed and armed.   [Please select]

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After nigh fourscore and ten years of life that Youth is nearer to me now than many things which befell me later.   [Please select]

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