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How To Use fourscore In A Sentence

• And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
• The guards in the towers stared in disbelief at the sight of fourscore Gauntlet Knights pounding toward them. The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Seven
• Then she took reckoning of the dead and found that he had slain fourscore of the Knights, and other twenty had taken to flight. 202 When she saw what work he had made with them she said to him, Allah bless thee, O Sharrkan! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• There are fourscore of them; and but that each carries a yager rifle in his hand, a knife in his belt, and a The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
• When fourscore years have bronz'd their mummied face, The Age Reviewed
• But we confess that it is a little mortifying to our pride of time and place, to meet an old beggar-woman, who from the dust on her tattered brogues has evidently marched miles from her last night's wayside howf, and who holds out her withered palm for charity, at an hour when a cripple of fourscore might have been supposed sleeping on her pallet of straw. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
• No doubt, some of these Californians applauded the fact that a woman who is skirting that mythic age of fourscore still has the wherewithal to perform, and to do it so well.
• “I could be sorry for these men,” he said, “ay, and for that poor Queen, but what avail earthly sorrows to a man of fourscore? — and it is a rare dropping morning for the early colewort.” The Abbot
• Now this King was become a very old man, weakened and wasted with age and sickness and decrepitude; for he had lived an hundred and fourscore years and had no child, male or female, by reason whereof he was ever in cark and care from morning to night and from night to morn. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• 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