| 单词 | threescore |
| 例句 | The kings and common folk, courtiers and soldiers in these productions add up to threescore or fourscore. Review: ‘DruidShakespeare: The History Plays’ Is Complete With a Crown Fit for Many Kings 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z “She wanted to impress upon the superintendent the serious ramifications of Brown. I had never in my lifetime seen a judge read Brown in court, and I am more than threescore and 10.” The Resegregation of Jefferson County 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z In the words of the Psalms, “The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow.” ‘Words are the best weapons with which to come to terms with ageing’ 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z A month later, you are well enough to ride with your brother and sister on the roof of the overloaded bus that bears your family and threescore cramped others to the city. Mohsin Hamid: “The Third-Born.” 2012-09-17T04:00:00Z The theatres, however, rapidly multiplied, and a writer who lived about 1629 said, “that no less than seventeen playhouses had been built in or about London within threescore years.” History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z It is the general opinion, however, that an error has slipped into the text that makes the deaths amount to fifty thousand threescore and ten. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z The Jehovah of Israel destroyed the honest-hearted reapers, to the number of fifty thousand threescore and ten, for their impudence. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z Five hundred out-pensioners from Chelsea Hospital were sent on board, many of whom were sixty years of age, and some threescore and ten. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z "Oh! what a wonder seems the fear of death, Seeing how gladly we all sink to sleep, Babes, children, youths, and men, Night following night, for threescore years and ten!" Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-04-03T02:00:26.740Z Down sank our threescore spears together, As thick we saw the pagans ride; His eager face in the clear fresh weather Shone out that last time by my side. In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding 2012-03-26T02:00:41.847Z Probably the threescore and ten, without the fifty thousand, is all that was originally in the text. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z The great Cardinal-Archbishop was over threescore and ten when he undertook the expedition to Northern Africa. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z From a record of 34 years as the average duration of human life, the thermometer of universal progress will point to the threescore and ten, or 70 years. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z By the fire sat a gentleman whose countenance and gray hair showed that he was approaching the verge of threescore years and ten, and his black dress indicated his profession. Delusion, or The Witch of New England 2012-03-19T02:00:28.267Z In sheer daylight he looked younger, though his years must have bordered upon the biblical threescore and ten. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Brave old heart of oak, of threescore years and ten! Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z However educated, Dekker was then a young man just out of his teens, if he spoke with any accuracy when he said that he was threescore in 1637. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z After threescore years have come and gone we find less trouble in counting the army with which we started in the fall of 1889. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z Such moments are worth living for, ay threescore years and ten. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z The molten tide of passion and extravagance that swept over intellectual Europe threescore years ago bore on its foaming crest Robert Schumann. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Cobbett was threescore years and ten when he took his seat in the House of Commons. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z For the good ship Snowdrop struck,—she struck On the rock,—the Eddystone, And down she went with threescore men, We two being left alone. The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z The threescore years offer as the pictures of what the historian will recognize as a great legislative and administrative period—perhaps, on the whole, the greatest in our annals. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z These dismounted, and, having tied up their horses, all went into the house, accompanied by their friends, to the number of threescore. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z I feel to-day the isolation consequent upon my long survival of the threescore and ten apportioned as the term of human life. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The women crowded so abominably, at the funerals in Athens, that Solon excluded all women, under threescore years, from gadding after such ceremonies. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z What a pity that threescore was not the utmost limit of human life! Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z St. Luke tells us how many people there were on board the ship: for he says, "And we were all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls," or 276 persons. "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) 2012-01-13T03:00:12.913Z Pondered have I for years threescore and ten, But still am baffled by these mysteries. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The same Ceremony was repeated next Day, and in these two Days they made threescore thousand Agnus Dei’s, which they say cost the Chamber twelve thousand Crowns. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-07T03:00:17.127Z He commonly dines at four o'clock, and is attended by Waiting-Women, of whom there are no less than threescore, tho' no more than eight wait upon one Day. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-06T03:00:25.023Z II The King of Rhine apparel gave to his liegemen bold, To threescore and a thousand, as I have heard it told, Beside nine thousand yeomen, on mirth and revel bent. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Tennyson was then an old man who had passed his threescore years and ten. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin: and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z The worms' impressive performance adds weight to the evidence that the biological clock that rules reproduction is separate from the one that grants us the traditional threescore and 10. Egg Timer: Separate Biological Clocks Govern Female Fertility and Life Span 2011-12-06T00:15:09.730Z Clement—Formerly shot was allowed for that purpose; there used to be threescore weight of iron, but now it is a bag of ballast that is made fast to them. State Trials Vol. 2 (of 2) Political and Social 2011-11-24T03:00:50.470Z For the purpose of self-culture, in its highest sense, an ordinary lifetime seems quite too short, though prolonged to threescore years and ten. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z But afterward there was found a necessity to dispense with that Order, and so it was with my Predecessors; which I can prove for above threescore years bygone. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z He had reached his threescore years and ten, but still seemed so vigorous in mind and body that neither his family nor the parish were prepared for the sad event. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z On Wednesday, that fatal day,25 The people were convening; Besides all this, threescore and ten, To gang to the bridesteel wi' him. English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) 2011-10-14T02:00:24.023Z But he reached his threescore years and ten in comfort; and the placard of Satan flying off with him represented a last hope. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z Nor should we complain that the blight of death so quickly withers what the course of threescore years has scarce sufficed to produce. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z It was dusk when the youth ushered him into a little parlour where two ladies sat; the one appeared about forty, the other threescore and ten. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z The dark blue rippling water is to-day—as Harry gazes on it—studded with threescore gallant ships, many of them steamers, but each and all having tall and tapering masts. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z Ah! dear old Ben! he is getting old, wearing up towards the threescore years and ten— ”—That form That short allotted span. O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas 2011-09-08T02:00:19.987Z He had not been struck blind or dumb; Satan had not carried him off; he had lived beyond his threescore years and ten and died peacefully in his bed. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z Mrs. Wackles was an excellent, but rather venomous old lady of threescore. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z The two disciples were going to a village called Emmaus threescore furlongs distant from Jerusalem, and while they are conversing Jesus joins them, "but their eyes were holden that they should not know him." Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:34.690Z Reckoning this at one third the time occupied in each full action of the heart, and we have more than twenty years of perfect quiet out of the threescore and ten. Insanity Its Causes and Prevention 2011-08-29T02:01:05.400Z The latter appeared to be about forty; but his hospitable entertainer was at least threescore. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z I would not marry, in France, Rohan, not counting half threescore other princesses whom they were giving me. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z What an incredible marvel it is that there are human creatures that slumber threescore and ten years, and look down at the clods and then say, “We are old, we have lived seventy years.” Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z And then he struck his neck in two; And when he had done so, From prison, threescore knights and four Lancelot delivered tho. English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) 2011-08-12T02:00:17.607Z The field where it was growing had been familiar to me for threescore years and ten, yet the flower was entirely new to me. Every Man His Own University 2011-08-04T02:00:22.623Z He and his wife had reached their threescore and ten, the Countess Wanda was thirty, and her boy eleven years old. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z At threescore years: does he stay his hand In token of lessening powers? Charles Edward Putney An Appreciation 2011-07-18T02:00:24.397Z Apollo demands a truce to their doleful amusement, and requests them to extend the years of Admetus to threescore and ten. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Their trampling sounded upon the turf, at the same time that a wild yell, issuing simultaneously from threescore throats, struck terror into the hearts of the emigrants. The Yellow Chief 2011-07-05T02:00:27.013Z Mindful of these difficulties, I will do my best to characterize the threescore years which have carried me into and out of the heart of the nineteenth century. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z Many people who live to a very old age develop tremor before they are threescore. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Ten and threescore cycles Are complete today; Loving benedictions Speed you on your way. Charles Edward Putney An Appreciation 2011-07-18T02:00:24.397Z Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z He had already reached the lustrum that would fill his threescore years, and life seemed slipping from beneath him, while its great object remained unachieved. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z "Why, because if all the 'lives' live out their threescore years and ten, the lease is still a short one; for you don't start with the first year of anyone's life." The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z Luke 24:13-32 13 And behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was threescore furlongs from Jerusalem. A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version 2011-05-31T02:00:30.837Z In a few seconds they had prepared a rope or chain nearly threescore feet in length, of bows strung together, each link being five feet long. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z Now the three hundred remaining three-halfpences make an hundred and fifty threepences, and threescore and fifteen sixpences; put that together, and it comes just to eight hundred and twenty-five reals, or sixpences, to a farthing. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z The days of our years are threescore and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Let me see—ay—he must be well upon threescore years and ten. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z It is generally considered that a man should clip threescore and ten sheep in a day, a good clipper fourscore.' Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Through the whole of a life which approached the term of threescore years and ten, Faguet was absorbed, more perhaps than any other man of his time, in the contemplation of the printed page. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The pilgrims, being questioned in the same manner, said, their intention was to embark for Rome, and that they had about them some threescore reals. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z For threescore years since first I saw the light, I lived without reproach—A Roman Knight. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z We’ve taken prisoners threescore Roundheads, and sent as many more to kingdom come. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z They had each long ago lived out the allotted threescore years and ten, but they had evidently not worn out their welcome. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z She was a handsome brunette, though not above six hundred and threescore fathoms high; but her agreeable attractions made amends for the smallness of her stature. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Impossible to leave her here in this God-forsaken hamlet, with a sick man for her charge and a veteran of threescore years for her bodyguard. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z Certainly there is a surprisingly large number of people there whose income is under ten shillings and whose years exceed threescore and ten. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z In less than threescore seconds after the affair began, Reginald Trevor and his attendant were unhorsed, disarmed, and held as in the hug of a couple of bears. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z At threescore years and ten he insisted on mounting a dangerous animal that he would not have permitted any friend to ride. Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z This is sore, A burden without fruit in childbearing; Between the nightfall and the dawn threescore, Threescore between the dawn and evening. Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z Neither from us shall wisdom go To fill the hungering hearts of men, Lest to them threescore years and ten Come but to seem a little day, Once given, and taken soon away. A Selection from the Poems of William Morris 2011-02-11T03:00:29.580Z There were threescore young men in the brilliant cavalcade. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z As yet only on one occasion had I seen her; then only at a distance, and for a time scarce counting threescore seconds. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z Then the blind man turned to the other beggars, and his hearing told him that by this time there were at least threescore in the street. Khaled, A Tale of Arabia 2011-01-16T03:00:23.317Z Andries Coejemans, old as he was, and it will be remembered he too had seen his threescore years and ten, was not a man to be taken by the throat with impunity. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z Though past man’s alloted threescore and ten years, Though I’ve passed through afflictions, in sorrow and tears, In feeling still young, and in sympathy true, I would have the world better for my passing through. Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith 2010-12-26T03:00:20.460Z For they were elephants—a troop on the march—nigh threescore in number, their line extending for hundreds and hundreds of yards across the karoo. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z At the eleventh hour I and threescore followers will cross the nullah. The Great Mogul In English the use of the word score to represent twenty—e.g. in “threescore and ten” for seventy—is superimposed on the denary system, and has never formed an essential part of the language. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" It has been built threescore years, if you call that the other day. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z He filled full threescore temples with His statues vast and grim, And some of Mrs. Rameses Who wa'n't knee-high to him. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise Yet though he was nearly threescore and ten, this man had, while under the influence of his accustomed stimulus, as much elasticity and nearly as much strength as most men of thirty. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician Though he was gray with age, being threescore years and ten, still his practiced arm was stout and able to wield the terrible battle-axe with dire effect. The Story of Malta He is verging on the limit of that threescore and ten which the Psalmist allotted as the measure of human life. Tom Brown at Rugby He himself though married died childless, after threescore years of life; and he was given the position of Deputy to the General Court, before his father passed away. William Bradford of Plymouth Then they turned their attention to work, and, after huts had been provided for all, a fort was built commanding the harbour, and threescore guns, taken from the ships, mounted upon its battlements. Donalblane of Darien With him there rode three very noble haughty lords of the court as the Queen had ordained, and with these went esquires and attendants to the number of threescore ten and four. The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions It was the case now—as it had often been!—the king had seen some threescore letters marked with the senders' names or initials; and there was one he had not seen. In the Day of Adversity Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze; And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burthen of threescore. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 When life lies fair in the distance, with the rosy hues of anticipation transfiguring its rugged steeps and yawning chasms, we are young, though our years may number threescore and ten. The Master's Violin "It's a lesson we're all slow to learn, and many haven't learnt it by the end of their threescore years and ten—'to be slow to anger,' and to keep our tongues from evil." Carrots: Just a Little Boy Most of the men, worn with threescore night-guards, were buried under their tarps in the deep sleep of the weary; sound as that of the just, and much more common. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus Divorce law-suits, "whole family save one in prison, and threescore lettres-de-cachet" for thy own sole use, do but astonish the world. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII We might likewise celebrate the baths, which still retained the name of Zeuxippus, after they had been enriched by the munificence of Constantine with lofty columns, various marbles, and above threescore statues of bronze. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 It lasts but a second--though men term it threescore years and ten--and then, glowing with the light it receives and imparts, sinks again. On the Heights A Novel And is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust? Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes By Chase our long-liv’d Fathers earn’d their Food, Toil strung the Nerves, and purified the Blood; But we their Sons, a pamper’d Race of Men, Are dwindled down to threescore Years and ten. Medicina Flagellata Or, The Doctor Scarify'd Readers beloved! prefer you not such sweet, strong strains as these sounded by Dryden, when he had nearly counted threescore and ten? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 You have heard me tell of the trip I took with your father through the Choctaw nation; but I'm now past my threescore years and ten, lad. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois Knights of to-day who reach their threescore and ten in due time will see steam supplanted by it on our railways. Harper's Round Table, July 30, 1895 On a bier, with body swathed in burial robes, lay the inanimate clay from which the soul fled after its imprisonment of the allotted threescore and ten years. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter In India, China, and the intermediate countries, the aggregate population of which includes one-half of mankind, kites are the favorite toy of both old and young boys, from three years to threescore and ten. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. On they come—dark forms in straggling lines—threescore here, two there; a dozen further back, even as many as a hundred together. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising There might have been about threescore of the great ungainly brutes, squatting around on the rocks which overhung the pool. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt "To-morrow!" he said—"if I see to-morrow, I shall have completed my twenty-fourth year—a small part, surely, of the threescore and ten; but what matters it when 'tis past?" Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative I shall not long be able for work now, seeing that I am upwards of threescore and ten, and my days are already full of labour and sorrow.” Holiday House A Series of Tales And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary. The Bible Story About threescore dead oxen lay where they had fallen, the nostrils of a few still frothy with the fatal running which denoted the fell pestilence. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising Those of us who have numbered threescore years can remember the perpetual lamentation of the cultivated American of forty years ago. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) Sir George Grey also declined, on the ground of years: he was within one of the threescore and ten allotted to mortal man. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) By chase our long-lived fathers earned their food; Toil strung the nerves and purified the blood: But we their sons, a pampered race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days. The Bible Story But at the end of the chapel was a church-yard in which were threescore tombs, over which it seemed no tempest had passed. Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality She was threescore year and upwards, she said, and had lived forty years in S. Osees in honour and good repute. Witch Stories To those ministerial misdeeds he proceeded to draw the attention of the electors, though he declared with threescore years and ten upon his head, how irksome he felt the task. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) He lived to almost exactly the threescore and ten years of the Psalmist. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 "Worn to a thread by threescore years and ten." The Bible Story Of threescore thousand men this day thou hast left alive but fifteen thousand, and it is time to cry, Halt! Historic Tales, Vol. XIII (of 15), Part I The Romance of Reality. King Arthur He had never applied for relief during the threescore years and ten, and upwards, to which his life has spun out. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 If there is an old toper present, or a young toper, let 'em take the warning of an old man who has been awatching the gradual down fall of moderate drinkers for threescore years. Little Wolf A Tale of the Western Frontier He was a fine-looking old man, about five feet nine inches high; his age might be about threescore and fifteen, and he was a bachelor. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 "We poor ill-tempered mortals--must forgive, Though seven times sinning threescore times and ten." The Bible Story He had stolen away from his host with threescore of his best knights to visit a lady. Historic Tales, Vol. XIII (of 15), Part I The Romance of Reality. King Arthur His head had long been grey—he had reached the term allotted to man's mortal life here below—threescore and ten. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) "Both alike are mine and thine, Hastening quick to their decline; Thine's a summer, mine no more, Though repeated to threescore; Threescore summers, when they're gone, Will appear as short as one." Old and New London Volume I Translated also into English, they would have read as follows:— "The Sultan would give threescore of his best blacks for those three tripe-colored brats." The Boy Slaves And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years. The Bible Story Through hate of him I have slain a hundred knights, and maimed as many more, while of those I have thrown in prison, many are dead, and threescore and four yet live. Historic Tales, Vol. XIII (of 15), Part I The Romance of Reality. King Arthur Look at that greyheaded man, of threescore and upwards, sitting by the wayside! Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) The old squire is turned of threescore, and every thing is old about him. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 It did not seem possible that the sprightly, energetic little woman who answered the reporter's ring could have reached the allotted threescore and ten. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. The Bible Story Of these, the eldest was not less than threescore years of age. Historic Tales, Vol. XIII (of 15), Part I The Romance of Reality. King Arthur Then the life of man is not always limited to the term of threescore and ten years. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) He was the farthest west adventurer at that date who took upon him to supply apothecary's wares among the threescore and ten other vendibles of a backwoods store. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement Long before Miss Anthony sees her "threescore and ten," the political equality of all American citizens will be fully established. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years And Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. The Bible Story In the case just mentioned, we find an old man who had passed his threescore and ten, and a youth who had not yet reached his score, falling victims to this thirsty cry for blood. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital In 1597 he declared that it would “peradventure fall out to be threescore and ten years, or if strength do awe, into fourscore.” Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 "He will send two or threescore men upon us, and it is my purpose to take as many of these prisoner as may be." Nuala O'Malley In June died Maria Mitchell, the great astronomer, in the fullness of years, having completed threescore and ten. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years And in the next year he gathered together threescore thousand chosen footmen, and five thousand horse, that he might subdue them. The Bible Story His years were now threescore and ten, but he was hale as a pine forest and sweet as maple sap. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 Thine’s a summer, mine no more, Though repeated to threescore! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 One bright summer morning, more than threescore years ago, David Matson, with his young wife and his two healthy, barefooted boys, stood on the bank of the river near their dwelling. Our Young Folks—Vol. I, No. II, February 1865 An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls The year 1888 brought to Miss Anthony many honors, but it brought also the usual quota of the bereavements which come with every passing year when one nears threescore and ten. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Why is it that so many of the greater writers of fiction have brought forth their first novel only after they had attained to half the allotted threescore years and ten? Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews I was an old man, verging on threescore. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters And when death found him, at an age which did not fall far short of the allotted threescore and ten, the great unknown work was still an undefined idea, and had still to be begun. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Each new experience gives the former credit; And rev'rend grey threescore is but a voucher, That thirty told us true. The Revenge A Tragedy From the many letters received only a few extracts can be given: Allow me to congratulate you on your safe arrival at the age of threescore and ten. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Yea Asshur shall, some time afterwards, put an end altogether to the kingdom of Israel; "Within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken that it shall not be a people any more," chap. vii. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 My brother, then verging on threescore, being among the prisoners, was, after sore sufferings in the Greyfriars church-yard of Edinburgh, sent on board a vessel as a bondsman to the plantations in America. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, Threescore men, and threescore more, Cannot place Humpty Dumpty as he was before. Traditional Nursery Songs of England With Pictures by Eminent Modern Artists Another threescore lives paid in toll to the insatiable sea! The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) Mary Anthony said, "When my sister returned from South Dakota I realized for the first time that she was indeed threescore and ten." The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years "For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, and in threescore and five years more, Ephraim shall be broken, and be no more a people." Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 But while Iden slumbered with his head against the panel—think, think, think—this shallow world of ours, this petty threescore years and ten, was slipping away. Amaryllis at the Fair We had but once before handled this performance—some threescore and ten years ago, when a man of middle age. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Such accidents are of daily occurrence, and the deaths from this cause probably are not less than threescore every year in the state. Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining I believe I am able to endure the strain of daily travelling and lecturing at over threescore years and ten, mainly because I have always worked and loved work. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years I am getting old now," she added sweetly; "I am threescore and ten; I cast my first vote to-day. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV And in that sky what looked like threescore moons were circling with extraordinary swiftness. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 Behold, two of his disciples went that same clay to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy But, to drop all metaphor—where will you find a flower more interesting than a spinster of threescore and ten, of sixty, of fifty, or of forty? Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI But it made far happier those who have believed in her all these years, that she should have triumphed over ignorance and prejudice, and at threescore and ten have come into her kingdom at last. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years The days of man under the old dispensation, or, rather, according to that supposedly biblical formula, which persists, are threescore years and ten. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel The commissary men were loading 390 the canoes, threescore of them, that were to carry the garrison on its westward journey. The Road to Frontenac The age allotted to mortals by the Psalmist is threescore and ten. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden The great dyal is your last monument: there bestow some half of the threescore minutes.... Memorials of Old London Volume I He comes in the promise and bloom of threescore, To perform in the pageant the sovereign's part— But long live the shamrock which shadows him o'er! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 If I live to threescore years and ten I shall not understand Mrs. Faulkner. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate The prediction of Isaiah was then fulfilled;1028 within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be no more a people. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) We read in the Apocalypse, that "the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days." Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge More than threescore clubs hold meetings in the building on Saturday and Sunday. The Battle with the Slum But the king, an old man who had already numbered his threescore years and ten, was thoroughly disheartened. Louis Philippe Makers of History Series The Jew was content, and lent Faustus threescore dollars for a month, which time being expired, the Jew came for his money and interest; but Dr. Faustus was never minded to pay the Jew again. Mediaeval Tales “Thou hast learned a lesson which many a scholar of threescore and ten can yet hardly spell.” Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution Women of all ages were assembled there, from the matron of threescore years and ten to the fair girl whose interest in the war had brought to her a premature sadness and high resolve. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The dimensions of the temple of Jerusalem, threescore cubits long, twenty broad, and thirty high, were much smaller than those of the great edifices explored in Assyria. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life They met as agreed, eighteen men and eleven women, of all ages, from young Conrad whose moustache was little more than down, to old Berthold who carried the weight of threescore and fifteen years. One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford Never has he given aught of grace to me who have served him faithfully for these threescore years. The Doomsman His massive frame, lion-like head, and dignified bearing show few of the marks of the more than threescore years written upon his life. The Vanishing Race In this place he met with a great ship bound for the Havana, well provided, with twenty great guns and threescore and ten men, passengers and mariners. The True Story Book And shows, dissolved in thine own tears. still whimpering through threescore years. The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature We live our threescore years and ten and then pass on into eternity; He was eternal to begin with. The New Theology Chief Running Fisher had measured threescore years of life, and for forty years of that time he had averaged a battle for every other year. The Vanishing Race "How's this, villain?" echoed threescore female voices, some of them not musical. Folk-lore and Legends: German Percival had reached His threescore years and five, but stood erect As if no touch of age had chilled him yet. The Woman Who Dared In 1637 he was by his own words a man of threescore, which, as it has been justly remarked, may mean anything between fifty-five and seventy. A History of Elizabethan Literature When he signed his name to the Declaration of Independence in this very room, his years had rounded the full period of threescore and ten. The Critical Period of American History Although he has reached the age of nearly threescore years and ten, his frame is massive and his posture, when standing, typifies the forest oak. The Vanishing Race Colorful ceremonies of old Siam Once each year the King visits the various temples in and near Bangkok, travelling in the royal barge, a gorgeously decorated affair rowed by threescore oarsmen The rice-planting ceremony. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China The king was now a world-weary, heart-stricken old man, who had numbered more than his threescore years and ten. Louis XIV. Makers of History Series Besides more than threescore of operas, Donizetti composed seven masses, twelve string quartets, and a host of songs, cantatas and vespers, as well as pianoforte music. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) This was especially true in the long tours undertaken, when past threescore and ten, to sow in lands afar the seeds of the Kingdom! George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God His studies in middle life bore fruit after he was threescore and ten years of age. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin Moreover, of scattered papers, those of the Royal Society's Catalogue, which antedate his arrival in this country, are more than threescore and ten. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Daniel it is said, 'Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.'—Daniel v. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Oh, God, from behind Thy high heaven—from out of Thy infinite wealth of years, hast Thou but the one same pittance of threescore and ten for every man? The Lost Art of Reading And so for more than threescore years the Holy Spirit has been safely trusted to supply and qualify all needed teachers, helpers, and leaders in the assembly. George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God He was among the first of most eminent Americans to crown his life after the period of threescore and ten years with the results of the scholarship of usefulness. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin Then, turning to the daughters of Jerusalem, He exclaims:— There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And maidens without number. Union And Communion or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon When he was about threescore, she died, and he never could venture to let any one supply her place. A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue If we were to do nothing else for threescore years, it is not in our human breath to recite our fathers’ names upon our lips. The Lost Art of Reading He lived and breathed amid the fragrance of sweet-savour offerings, permitted for more than threescore years to participate in the joy of the Lord Himself over the cheerful though often costly gifts of His people. George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God My young friend, let me tell you that you will have to collect far beyond the prescribed threescore years and ten if you would yourself collect all the British lepidoptera. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. In the end he had scarcely threescore of them to drive back to the palace in the evening. Tales of Folk and Fairies Threescore were drowned, threescore were thrown Upon the black rocks wild, And thus among them, left alone, They found one helpless child. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 The periods here mentioned—“forty and two months,” and “a thousand two hundred and threescore days”—are the same, alike representing the time in which the church of Christ was to suffer oppression from Rome. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan The baths were enriched with lofty columns, handsome marbles, and more than threescore statues of brass. Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Lafayette was now nearly threescore and ten years of age, the beloved hero of France and America, and the leader of human liberty in all lands. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk We went out of Plymouth Sound, threescore and ten, men and boys, well armed and victualled for six months. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea He was still, despite his threescore years, straight as a pole; and had a fine healthy looking face, that belied the fearful stories told by his friends of his dissipation. Faces and Places “They shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.” The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan He is more than threescore years and ten, a great deal; his head is hoary, and his beard is long and gray. Rollo's Museum The key to the symbolism is found in the "threescore and ten arches" of the bridge, representing the scriptural limit of physical existence, with some broken arches for any excess of that limit. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Simon had a son, who shot right well, That did Sir Andrew mickle scare; In at his deck he gave a shot, Killed threescore of his men of war. The Book of Brave Old Ballads The promise is made, "And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth." The Ordinance of Covenanting And I will give power unto My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.... The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan All ashes to the taste: Did man compute Existence by enjoyment, and count o'er Such hours 'gainst years of life,—say, would he name threescore? The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; Threescore men and threescore more Cannot place Humpty Dumpty as he was before. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes "Estates which were rented at two thousand a year threescore years ago," said Burke in 1766, "are at three thousand at present." History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 It is pretty clear that Thucydides spent a large part of a life of about threescore years and ten in gathering materials and writing his history. Historical Essays And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself.... The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan The History of his Reign, which has been so long Writing, has cost him near threescore Thousand Pounds Sterling. Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley (1712) and The British Academy (1712) Yet Ménou has threescore negroes and negresses, besides a whole colony of ebony children, and the two girls are not so ill to look at. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 He was born about 1570 in London; at least in 1637 he speaks of himself as over threescore years of age. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Out of the threescore only thirteen poor devils were held fast and came to the futile meeting. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Thus says the prophet: “The woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.” The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan Sancho counted above threescore skins, each of above twenty-four quarts, and all, as appeared afterwards, full of generous wines. Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote Of the six thousand that had been, scarcely threescore remained. The Snowshoe Trail Look upon Endymion, the moon's minion, who slept threescore and fifteen years, and was not a hair the worse for it. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Had Cromwell's life been prolonged to threescore and ten, the history of England might have been different for the next two hundred years. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Here, on bended knees, I give myself, and all I have and am, afresh to Him whom I have endeavoured to serve, but very imperfectly, for more than threescore years. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Young people who read it at the age of eighteen have now reached threescore, and those who read it at ten have passed their half-century of life. The Boat Club or, The Bunkers of Rippleton Mary Langdon is still on the threshold of life; at least those who have reached threescore would deem her so, as she is not more than three-and-twenty. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Can lying abed till noon then, being not the threescore and fifteenth thousand part of his nap, be hurtful? Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Translated also into English, they would have read as follows:— “The Sultan would give threescore of his best blacks for those three tripe-coloured brats.” The Boy Slaves I do not know the number, you do not know; but this we do know, it is marked upon the dial, and we are p. 72tolerably sure it is not more than threescore and ten. The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 She was sixty; he had passed threescore and ten. Lorraine A romance Some, at threescore, are driven forth from a life of indulgence and inactivity, to earn their daily bread. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 Volume 18, New Series, October 23, 1852 While rolling threescore years and one Did round this globe their courses run. The Book of Humorous Verse Hast thou served a good master threescore and ten years, and now art thou loth to go into his presence? Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel The days, as I have said, are short; they pass rapidly, and we calculate that the days of our years are threescore years and ten. The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 The race he lived here on earth was threescore years and seven, Deceased in Aprill, ’93, and then was prest to Heaven. A Pair of Clogs Never—if I live beyond the allotted threescore years and ten—shall I forget that strange night of Holy Thursday in Seville. The Car of Destiny Before he appeared, about threescore noble, grave, and ancient personages entered and took their seats round the building, while at the farther end were a large number of richly dressed young men. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold As then we need sleep to live out our threescore and ten years, so we need death to live that life which we cannot outlive. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel Mrs. Darling is a hale, comely old lady, bordering on threescore, and may be found engaged three parts of the day at her spinning wheel. Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands Ten is one thing, and threescore and ten is another. The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel Martin never did her anything but evil turns all his threescore years, but women canonise their own folk when they die. The Nebuly Coat The verses in question are the following:— 'has not he, within a year, Hang'd threescore of 'em in one shire, * * * * * Who after prov'd himself a witch, And made a rod for his own breech?' The Superstitions of Witchcraft Down sank our threescore spears together, As thick we saw the pagans ride; His eager face in the clear fresh weather, Shone out that last time by my side. The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems The able lawyer, after rising to the highest fame as a statesman and orator, passing away at threescore and ten, his latest years overshadowed by the grief of a disappointed ambition. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 "Ah! why so vain, though blooming in thy spring, Thou shining, frail, adorn'd, but wretched thing Old age will come; disease may come before, And twenty prove as fatal as threescore!" The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency This she did, after she had said many bitter and evil things, and Beaumains commanded the knight to go, with threescore knights which were in his service, and yield himself up to King Arthur. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls To this he was not looking forward much, though turned of threescore years and five; and his only child and loving daughter, Sylvia, which is myself, had never dreamed of losing him. Slain By The Doones But she flirts—she flirts with me; and, if I were not entrenched behind the fortress of threescore years, she'd enslave me as she enslaves everybody else. Despair's Last Journey His years were but little more than threescore and ten, and his step was light, and his heart was young, and we hardly thought of him as an old man. Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman I am astonished to find myself sixty-eight—very near the Psalmist's threescore and ten. Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston Then straight they fled by sea and land, That one man kill'd threescore a, And had not they all run away, In truth he had kill'd more a, In truth he had kill'd more a. English Songs and Ballads Now this Mr. Seton was a pleasant man, in age almost threescore, and full of interest in Mrs. Johnstone, having done business for her and her mother, the Lady Balgarnock, pretty well all his life. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales So they took their way to find King Ryons, and as they rode along together they encountered him in a straight way with threescore knights. Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" Here are we, a scant threescore souls, not one score grown men, come to people a savage land and make terms with hordes of savage inhabitants. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims He was now past threescore, grizzled, somewhat stoop-shouldered, but robust, rugged, strong, and, in his way, happy. Klondike Nuggets and How Two Boys Secured Them I am past seventy six, Edward; and you know, Edward, the Bible says that the days of men are threescore years and ten; so that I am beyond the mark. The Children of the New Forest Still man is born to die, Mr Wilmot, and your uncle has already lived beyond the threescore years and ten allotted to the average age of man. The Mission; or Scenes in Africa He had come home an old man, lacking but little of the allotted threescore years and ten. Benjamin Franklin Jackson himself was roused to intense indignation, and, though beyond threescore and ten, was active and unceasing in his efforts to insure a victory to Mr. Polk. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Wouldn’t you cry, Missy, if you was to be turned neck and crop into the road at threescore years and ten?” Roger Ingleton, Minor 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 The estates that were rented at two thousand pounds a year threescore years ago, are at three thousand pounds at present. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 But at daybreak, when we looked out, there hovered some threescore or more English craft, drawn up in an irregular line from south to north, looking at us. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess At threescore years he was still in the full vigor of life. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 The Ingletons was all weaklings, but they held out to nigh on threescore and ten years. Roger Ingleton, Minor You fellows know that the years of a man's life are, roughly, threescore and ten. Brother Copas The recklessness of an unthinking young man may be better understood than the cold, calculating fury and ferocity of threescore and ten. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure The punch appeared, blazing, went out with its strength unimpaired, and was dispensed, with a big ladle, into threescore glasses. The Man With The Broken Ear There are those who have passed the allotted term of threescore years and ten, but they well know and make all others understand that this was a mistaken limit to human powers. The Family and it's Members But, despite his boasted “threescore years and ten,” the old man was absolutely useless in the present inquiry. Roger Ingleton, Minor Scarce it seemed That she was of their number, or the links Of threescore years and ten, indeed had wound Their coil around her, with such warmth the heart, And cloudless mind retained their energies. Man of Uz, and Other Poems However, Sozomen relates that threescore bishops ratified his return: but the fair weather did not last long. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March The actual anniversary that marked her threescore had had nothing to do with it. Gigolo But her simplicity of living saved her, and she is still hale and hearty, though she has passed the limit of threescore and ten. Girls and Women Old Preez, the father, in particular, was a terrible man, by all tellings; full threescore and ten years of age, but strong, fiery, and full of oaths. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Would any think who marked the smile On yon untroubled face, That threescore years and ten had fled Without a wrinkling trace? Man of Uz, and Other Poems In short, I would advise the youth of fifteen to be dressing up every day the man of fifty, or to consider how to make himself venerable at threescore. A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses There were threescore of them, the heads of the families of Ayllos, whose blood was the purest and whose descent was most direct from the old nobility of my own days. The Romance of Golden Star ... Many of them were Revolutionary officers and soldiers, the youngest of whom must have been verging upon threescore and ten. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Yet these were mighty ones; perhaps the records of the world will not yield us threescore to be their mates! The Young Duke And their average will come as near the old Scripture pattern of threescore years and ten as that of any body of men who have lived since the days of Isaac and Jacob. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Now the threescore Cantrevs of North Britain are under his sway, and of his own free will he will not come out of his kingdom, and thou wilt not be able to compel him.” The Mabinogion Vol. 2 Indeed, no man ought to marry before thirty, forty, fifty, or sixty; and, were it not that life is so short, soon enough at threescore and ten. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Though more than threescore, he had been a conspicuous party chief only three or four years. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Foch was another Gascon who passed threescore years of his life peacefully enough—but when he did get into the fight at last, it was a "corker"! Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers Examination being made, there were discovered no less than threescore and ten witches in the village. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales The English translation renders it "seven weeks and threescore and two weeks," making one period of the two. Five Pebbles from the Brook Indeed, although little more than fifty years old, when you saw his head uncovered, you would have taken him for a man approaching to threescore and ten. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Revenge is always an ignoble motive, pardonable, if at all, when inspired by the hot blood of youth, but to be regarded as not only lamentable but pitiable in men who approach threescore and ten. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 He had already reached the allotted threescore years and ten when he entered Congress, and its ordinary details apparently interested him but little. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective Before they had ridden more than a quarter of a mile they came to a new house, where threescore persons were assembled at a splendid entertainment. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales Now I am more than threescore years and ten, and the rest of my days are numbered. The Eternal City Upon our word, we begin to believe that we ourselves deserve the name of Poietes much better than the gentleman who at threescore had never seen an eagle. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 The Buddha then remained at the Deer-forest near Benares until the number of his personal followers was about threescore, and that of the outside believers somewhat greater. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Each dives in a way supposed to be characteristic, Oldmixon with the pathetic exclamation, And am I now threescore? Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series The saint cured no fewer than threescore and thirteen persons possessed of devils. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales Adonibezek had threescore and ten vassal princes at his feet; if the headman of every village may be so called. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) When the venerable old man, Gladstanes, perished among the stormy blasts of these wilds, I was one of about threescore of men who for three days traversed them in search of the dead. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century No man of position, even early in the nineteenth century, would dream of travelling threescore miles from his residence without having signed and sealed his last will and testament. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway There were six of us all together, Norsemen of Helgoland; In two days and no more We killed of them threescore, And dragged them to the strand.’ Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys “That they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.” Some Answered Questions When beyond his threescore and ten, he writes to her thus, at different times: "Other things are old stories: you are all that I love to see." The Friendships of Women The threescore simple elements known to chemists die, that is, surrender their peculiar powers and properties, and enter into new combinations to produce and support higher forms of life. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The remainder of the retinue included the Duke of Wellington, an old nobleman of threescore and ten, and a half-dozen lesser peers, nearly all of whom were on the shady side of sixty. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow Old age will come; disease may come before; Fifteen is full as mortal as threescore. The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 And what sort of life will you lead yourself, meanwhile, for your allotted space of threescore years and ten, unless haply hanged, or burned, or imprisoned before it? Post-Prandial Philosophy A dark day did come, but it was not till after he had reached threescore and ten years. Choice Readings for the Home Circle Were we fated to perish at the goal of threescore, God would have harmonized our powers with our lot. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Nor did the public temper cool until threescore of the most wretched of those who live in the foul dens of the great city lay dead along the streets of Kensington and Belgravia. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow Nor Arria's Bible can secure her age; Her threescore years are shuffling with her page. The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 And what with threescore girls from the Ridge, and young men from half a dozen neighbouring states,—and young men are merely background in any social picture,—the ballroom was as pretty as a garden. A Certain Rich Man The days of a man are threescore years and ten. Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI In respect of eternity, six thousand years and this duration must be reduced to threescore years and ten, since that is all that each generation enjoyed is the same as one hour. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Afterwards, to fill up any vacancy that might happen, he ordered the most worthy men to be selected, of those that were full threescore years old. Ideal Commonwealths Life, like their Bibles, coolly men turn o'er; Hence unexperienc'd children of threescore. The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 Mounting a swift horse, he fled in the night, followed by about threescore others. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality It is only at threescore and ten that we liken it to a weaver's shuttle. Big Brother She remained in the full tide of her activity until she was long past the allotted threescore years and ten. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music The sight of threescore Englishmen captured by twenty Frenchmen roused the war spirit of the young braves. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark Into these threescore lines Lowell has poured a conception of Lincoln, which may justly be said to be to-day the accepted idea which Americans hold of their great President. The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. More than half of the human race die under five years old; how small a portion live to the full "threescore and ten." Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 It has often been said that some people have more life in threescore and ten years than Methuselah had in his more than nine hundred years. The Vitalized School How the world had aged in threescore years! The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories In this volume, commencing with Abel, and ending with Felix Neff, I have greeted both in verse and prose threescore and ten of the Excellent of the earth. My Life as an Author Fancy a house-reared man a convert to fishing when past threescore! The Garden, You, and I Bless the boy, one would think he was threescore years of age at least. Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor The real meaning of the occasion is best sought in a review of the record of those threescore years. The Leading Facts of English History The call came in the spring of 1861, when he was about threescore years old. Dewey and Other Naval Commanders Carlyle somewhere gives utterance to a truism, which the present scribe at least can most gratefully countersign, that "it takes a great deal of providence to bring a man to threescore years and ten." My Life as an Author One day, above fifty years ago, or threescore it may have been, Putnam and other boys were playing in the house, and took it into their heads to peep into this closet. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics I could not help expressing my astonishment at some of the exterior columns, which could not be much less than threescore feet in height, and scarcely twelve inches in diameter! A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two Clad in full mail and followed by threescore men-at-arms and as many archers the two Knights set out from Pontefract the following morning. Beatrix of Clare While the Gentiles tread the holy city under foot, God gives power to his two Witnesses, and they prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days clothed in sackcloth. Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John He was about fifty years of age, but his face was wrinkled like a man of threescore and more. The Land of Mystery The energy of the man more than threescore under the spur of his anguish was like that of the athlete of one-third of his years. The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring Now, after a lapse of threescore years, the 'Fall of the House of Usher,' with its "serene and somber beauty," would seem to deserve the first place of all. Inquiries and Opinions Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze; And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore. Familiar Quotations "The days of our years are threescore years and ten." Amusements in Mathematics The mother of Ziffak and King Haffgo was a tall, muscular widow of threescore and ten, much wrinkled, but strong and active on her feet. The Land of Mystery If he was eighty-six at the time of his death, he must have been about threescore and ten when Justin Martyr made this announcement. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution Hugo's formula is now fallen out of mode, yet his plays have accomplished their threescore years and ten. Inquiries and Opinions Meagre, unknown, unimportant Borealis, with her threescore men and one decent woman, shared, like the weightiest empire, in the smile, the care, the yearning of the ever All-Pitiful, greeting the earth with another perfect day. Bruvver Jim's Baby As he turned the last winding of the gorge he came upon a cluster of some threescore tents, spread over the level pocket at the valley's end. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt There were nine brothers, a handful of resident orphans, and some threescore pupils. Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 Charles only one resolv'd to marry, And other mens he never ——; Yet has he sons and daughters more Than e'er had Harry by threescore. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II For threescore years, at least, Scribe was the salient figure in the French theater; and his influence endured more than twoscore years after his death. Inquiries and Opinions There was not one man, but hundreds, who had passed the Biblical threescore years and ten but were fighting valiantly in defence of their country. With the Boer Forces I have lived with her with all the innocence of a man of threescore, like a peaceable bed-fellow as I am. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 Any Irishman who has reached the shady side of threescore years and ten must remember many Lord-Lieutenants—the pompously visible symbols of much vacillating misdirection. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Again, Christ gives men an ideal for themselves which in their threescore years and ten, more or less, they cannot hope to achieve: "Be ye perfect as your Father." Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking The duke had disbursed threescore thousand pounds of his money upon the fleet; and lost his life ere he could get aboard. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Thor must be threescore years old by this,—the senior by ten years of Manetho himself; while his late antagonist had the strength and aspect of half that age. Idolatry A Romance I am daily on the lookout; one year and three months will complete my threescore and ten. The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. These four face the west, and between them and the bloody rock squat some threescore of cave-folk, talking loudly among themselves. The Turtles of Tasman Your children all, they hurry to your den, ��With wreaths of honour they have won for you, To merry-make your threescore years and ten. The Poems of Henry Van Dyke Bathyllus, in the winter of threescore, Belies his innocence, and keeps a ——. English Satires I am threescore years and six,—six; mark me, Sir: but I can play Polonius, which, I believe, few of your corre—correspondents can do, Sir. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 July 29th, my birthday, and the last day of the threescore years and ten of my sinful life. The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. He lived out his threescore years and ten, hiding the jewel God had given him, and appropriating it only to the use of his own happiness in the solitude he loved. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Mrs. Widesworth, the actual, was a plump, well-to-do widow, of threescore years. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Byron at thirty-seven was a burnt-out volcano: Bryant at threescore and ten is as sensitive to the touch of beauty as at twenty. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 This continued freshness, lasting nearly threescore years, is simply due to economy of physical and mental resource, which is far more important than any economy of money. Side Lights Here I sit on the verge of threescore; my heart in some good measure loosened from the world, although in full possession of it. The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. And in a flash the old philosopher of threescore and ten said, "To wear their old clothes over again till they can make new ones." Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader And when she counted her remaining years to threescore, they seemed an eternity. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. I can well understand how happy the children of Israel were after their journey in the desert, when they came to Elim where "there were twelve wells of water and threescore and ten palm trees." Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children They have lasted beyond their own, and are cast behind ours; and, not contented to have known little at the age of twenty, they boast of their ignorance at threescore. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 "Ay, ay," returned Giles knowingly; "but threescore marks, disbursed discreetly to our good and loyal burgesses, made the doors as easy to open as my wicket—that is, at timely hours, ye understand." Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 A fellow lives because this physical machine of ours is wound up for threescore years and ten, and unless the powers of evil get their fingers in the works, it runs. Heart's Desire The new-comer appeared to be a man of more than threescore years and ten, though not a falter in his step, not the slightest curvature of his lofty figure, evinced the approach of old age. Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 Too old for youth—too young, at thirty-five To herd with boys, or hoard with good threescore, I wonder people should he left alive. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings Chief mourner at over threescore funerals, nevertheless was Mother Daly's voice always for peace and decorum; and what good she did may one day be discovered when the spurred and booted dead shall rise. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Sir Tarquin could boast of no mean success;—threescore knights and four, it is said, were held in thrall by this uncourteous chieftain. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 And for the last addition of misfortunes, Figheredo was seized with so terrible a lask, that, in a man of threescore years old, as he was, it was judged mortal. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 Most of us travel threescore years and ten stone-blind in a world of marvellous beauty. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 And in threescore generations it has achieved it all—think of it! threescore generations!—and to-day it reaches out wider-armed than ever. A Daughter of the Snows Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six. Notes on the Apocalypse The accused were numerous, so many as threescore and ten witches and sorcerers being seized in the village of Mohra; three-and-twenty confessed their crimes, and were sent to Faluna, where most of them were executed. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Matters being thus disposed, above threescore children, of divers kingdoms, and nine or ten different languages, were assembled, to be educated in piety and learning. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 This Guard was every forty-eight Hours chang'd, and remounted with a Captain, a Lieutenant, an Ensign, and threescore Men. Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton My vengeance shall fall upon myself, as the person most culpable of all, for I ought to have considered how ill this girl's fifteen years could assort with my threescore and ten. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes My breast, in belt of iron pent, With shirt of hair and scourge of thorn; For threescore years, in penance spent. From John O'Groats to Land's End Tall, gaunt, iron-visaged, with crisp, black locks despite her threescore years, she was a prophetess among her kindred—mighty in the Scriptures, and inflexible in faith. Lancashire Idylls (1898) I told them, The Portugueze were about some fifty or threescore persons, and six or seven of those, Europe men born. An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape Both alike are mine and thine Hastening quick to their decline: Thine’s a summer, mine’s no more, Though repeated to threescore. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn I have threescore and two Monks in my Cloister, and you will not see one Book in my Chamber. Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. Perpetual disorder draggs him on, Business Neglected, and himself Undone, A Wretched Life he spends till threescore Years, And then the Fruits of Drunkeness appears. The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses from Men He spent threescore years in filling six rooms with such trumpery as is just too good to be thrown away, and too bad to be kept. An History of Birmingham (1783) In India, China, and the intermediate countries, the aggregate population of which includes one-half of mankind, kites are the favourite toy of both old and young boys, from three years to threescore and ten. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 Volume 17, New Series, January 3, 1852 Well; without any other help than a few diurnals I have wrote of longer paper than this, and in the same fine small hand, above threescore sheets of paper…. Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Upon this, up starts an old Priest about threescore Years of Age, his Name was Adam. Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. Howbeit, there was nothing done, for the residue of the commons of the city were sore doubted, lest they should rise also, and the commons before were a threescore thousand or more. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) It is easy to give instances of people who have breathed the smoak of Birmingham for threescore years, and yet have scarcely left the precincts of of youth. An History of Birmingham (1783) In short, I would advise the youth of fifteen to be dressing up every day the man of fifty; or to consider how to make himself venerable at threescore. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Here were threescore valiant men, of the valiant of Israel. Sketches of the Covenanters Although he be threescore and ten, his hair is still abundant and tolerably black, and there is considerable colour in his cheek. On the Choice of Books Howbeit they pursued after and passed the bridge that day more than threescore thousand horses, and divers other passed at Chatelleraut, and ever as they passed they took the way to Poitiers. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) He was buried September 8, 1601; so that, supposing him to have reached his majority when first heard of in 1552, he must have passed the age of threescore and ten. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England The life of this clerk was just threescore and ten, Nearly half of which time he had sung out Amen. The Parish Clerk Through threescore and ten miles to the Arkansas River we came, and there was not a well nor spring nor sign of water in all that distance. Vanguards of the Plains Astarte, known nigh threescore years, Me to no speechless rapture urges; Them in Elysium she enspheres, Queen, from of old, of thaumaturges. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell Her tender plot it was, Planned for thy sake, which brought thee; since who else Could in one day drive threescore yojanas? Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala Until he had passed the threescore years and ten he had, with occasional illnesses, enjoyed good health on the whole. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature But he lost all his wind after threescore and ten, And here with three wives he waits till again The trumpet shall rouse him to sing out Amen. The Parish Clerk "The days of our life are threescore years and ten." Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. For the good ship 'Snowdrop' struck,—she struck On the rock,—the Eddystone, And down she went with threescore men, We two being left alone. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. The scattered and separated experiences that diversify and mark the passage of the "threescore years and ten," were collected and thrust into the narrow period of my nonage. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 We this day weighed to make sail for the road; and, on this occasion, the king sent at the least threescore large boats, or gallies, well manned, to tow us into the harbour. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time "And he bade me tell you that should King Alexander commission you on any dangerous enterprise, there are threescore of fishermen at your service over at Kilmory." The Thirsty Sword Over six feet in height, with a rugged constitution, he little felt his threescore years, having spent his entire lifetime in the outdoor occupation of a ranchman. A Texas Matchmaker Sebastian had passed his threescore years and ten before this famous map appeared. Elizabethan Sea Dogs "And knowest thou not that Jerusalem is in the hands of the Chaldeans, and that threescore thousand men of war are stationed in the city?" The Young Captives: A Story of Judah and Babylon The Sirens: Ah, will ye go, and whither then Will ye go from us, soon to die, To fill your threescore years and ten With many an unnamed misery? Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 At that time when we were in prison, there died of them aboue threescore and ten. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 And must I then For threescore years and ten Worship the laws of men Who worshipped law? Twenty His company numbered only threescore souls in all. Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 He was soon elevated to posts of honor, and, with the exception of short intervals, he has been the first officer in the kingdom for more than threescore years. The Young Captives: A Story of Judah and Babylon It may be so, but the effect was striking, as I recall it through the vista of threescore years and ten. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Marsden, though he made seven more voyages to the country, the last after he had reached threescore years and ten, never settled there. The Long White Cloud His who, beside the wild encircling seas, Was England's voice, her voice with one acclaim, For threescore years; whose word of praise was fame, Whose scorn gave pause to man's iniquities. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 He had seen some threescore years; his countenance, in general inexpressive, at times betrayed that strong and evil passions were working at his heart. The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence After more than threescore years of public service, I cheerfully submit to my fate, knowing well that Jehovah, the God of Israel, in whom I trust, will direct this whole matter to his own glory. The Young Captives: A Story of Judah and Babylon We pass a score—twoscore, threescore, perhaps—of happy parties, soldiers again, a bourgeois family of three generations, the old grandmother with a mushroom-hat tied over her cap—soldiers and Fräuleins coketteering. Nancy When the earl of Portland was ambassador at the French court, this play was acted at Paris threescore nights running; the subject is related by Livy. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV He attended the village school, where he was the most popular and promising of the threescore pupils under the care of the crabbed Mr. Jenkins. Brave Tom The Battle That Won The unfortunate Caraccioli, as has been said, had nearly numbered his threescore and ten years, in the regular course of nature; and his bare head now showed the traces of time. The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet Such was the countenance of my venerated mother, on the eve of threescore years. Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York So posterity, for nearly threescore years, have treated a man of genius, who, to quote Dr. Johnson's opinion, left no species of writing untouched, and adorned all to which he applied himself. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 573, October 27, 1832 How innocent it looked in his hand, and with an innocence that never wore off, not even when he had reached his threescore years. Tommy and Grizel And in London is Elvesham beginning life again in a vigorous body, and with all the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of threescore and ten. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories This renovated breed may in turn produce a still more vigorous offspring, and so we may ascend the scale, from the threescore and ten of the Psalmist to the immortality of which we speak. Venetia This day I spent in cooking it, found in her threescore eggs, and her flesh the most savoury and pleasant I ever tasted in my life. The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) Hyacinth Halvey: The tents on the fair green; there will be music in it; there was a fiddler having no legs would set men of threescore years and of fourscore years dancing. New Irish Comedies To hazard the inoffensive query, why one of our commonest great beetles is still allowed to figure under so distinguished a name, will therefore reflect no discredit upon a cautious student of nearly threescore years. Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850 Already long past the threescore years and ten allotted man, Dr. Bascom exerted a vital influence on the college when we first met him. A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 Every glass touched every glass, an operation which entailed some threescore clinkings. Over There War Scenes on the Western Front Thus ended our bloody battle with the beasts, having killed threescore of them, and saved our lives from their fury. The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) The school was assembled for evening prayers, some threescore boys representing for the most part the well-to-do middle class of a manufacturing county. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories Here one does not need to live out his threescore years and ten to see the city of his youth slip away from him. People of the Whirlpool The emotion remains uneffaceable after more than threescore years, one of the most vivid of my life. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I Even the sincere admirer of Miss RICHARDSON'S talent will begin to wonder how many more books at the present rate of progress must be required to bring Miriam to, say, threescore years and ten. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919 They have fifty out of a thousand, and we twenty out of threescore. The Refugees The threescore leapt to their feet, and volleys of cheering made the schoolroom echo. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories The bumpkin who is a bumpkin at thirty must remain a bumpkin to threescore and ten. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 I might live to threescore and ten in Wyoming, and be killed in a railroad accident or some other way the first day I left it. Cowmen and Rustlers A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges First, let me have but a touch of your gold, Then you shall seem Like a girl of fifteen, Although you be threescore and ten years old. Notes and Queries, Number 02, November 10, 1849 Pope's poetry is full of nature, at least of what I have been in the constant habit of accounting nature for the last threescore and ten years. Famous Reviews We had, first and last, killed about threescore of them; and had it been daylight, we had killed many more. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe, Written By Himself, in Two Volumes Vive la bagatelle! trembled upon his lips at the age of threescore; and he amused himself with reading the most trifling books he could find, and writing upon the most trifling subjects. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 By her side sits a woman of some threescore years, tall, stately, and squarely formed, with ample breadth of back and size of chest, like the robust dames of Sorrento. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Since for threescore years and ten She has done the work of men, 'Tis not strange that she should fall Weak and helpless by the wall, Nevermore to come and go To and from Menaggio. Poems "Yes, she's married," answered his uncle, in the indifferent tone with which threescore years and odd can discuss that fatality. M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." Till you're threescore years and ten, take my humble tip, Sow your nice tame oats and then . Ballads of a Bohemian Wretched old sinner of more than threescore years and ten, if he had never known it yet, he would have known it in his heart of hearts if he could have heard the answering cry. A Tale of Two Cities Go send 'em threescore camels, thirty mules, And twenty waggons, to bring up the ware. The Jew of Malta We might likewise celebrate the baths, which still retained the name of Zeuxippus, after they had been enriched, by the munificence of Constantine, with lofty columns, various marbles, and above threescore statues of bronze. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 But what their care bequeathed us our madness flung away: All the ripe fruit of threescore years was blighted in a day. Lays of Ancient Rome Presently whom should he see but this same Will flying madly forth from the gates again, closely pursued by the Sheriff and threescore men. Robin Hood I would never marry after threescore, but live in a hospitable manner, yet still on the saving side. Gulliver's Travels There come before the castle of Cardoil one day threescore knights armed, and they seize upon their booty betwixt the castle and the forest. The High History of the Holy Graal The Spaniard declared himself ready to suffer under Constantius, as he had suffered threescore years before under his grandfather Maximian. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Not without secret trouble Our bravest saw the foe; For girt by threescore thousand spears, The thirty standards rose. Lays of Ancient Rome The other agreed, and they cut down two willow wands of a summer's growth that grew beneath a brier, and set them up at a distance of threescore yards. Robin Hood We human beings drowse through thirty years of our threescore and ten, but the ant is awake and working all the time. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers And has he not within a year Hang'd threescore of them in one shire? Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 Being now threescore and ten, and the eighth time General, he was in hope to pass in quiet, not only the year of his magistracy, but his remaining life. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans If the Doctor, with a large birch, had appeared bodily to him, even at the age of threescore and eight, and had said in awful voice, "Boy, take down your pant—"? Vanity Fair In the brush and foliage of the sierra, Demetrio Macias and his threescore men slept until the halloo of the horn, blown by Pancracio from the crest of a peak, awakened them. The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution We had, first and last, killed about threescore of them, and had it been daylight we had killed many more. Robinson Crusoe A quantity of dark hair escaped from beneath this sombre hat, a circumstance which, connected with the firm, upright carriage of the intruder, proved that his years could not yet exceed threescore or thereabouts. The Purcell Papers — Volume 2 We were told it was but forty miles across the country, and we have come above threescore. She Stoops to Conquer As for the slain of the waylayers, of whom there were some threescore, the Bull captain would do nought but let them lie on the road. The Well at the World's End: a tale The whole circle of threescore monsters seemed to rise about us. The Island of Doctor Moreau The whole period of threescore years and ten is surely but a little thing in comparison with eternity? The Republic The trucks were all of iron, and heavy, and they put about threescore hams on each of them, a load of more than a quarter of a ton. The Jungle Bel 1:10 Now the priests of Bel were threescore and ten, beside their wives and children. Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha I am here,--a man considerably exceeding in age the allotted threescore and ten--to deliver a message, be the value of the same greater or less. "'Tis Sixty Years Since" Address of Charles Francis Adams; Founders' Day, January 16, 1913 Cost is his sole criterion, and here he, too, seems to glance obliquely at Canons:— Dorick, Ionick, shall not there be found, But it shall cost me threescore thousand pound. De Libris: Prose and Verse |
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