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Sentences starting with forty

Forty year ago, you had only to let down the bucket till the first knot in the rope was free of the windlass, and you heard it splashing in the cold dull water. [12]
Forty and seven years it is since William Wordsworth first appeared as an author. [6]
Forty of the wounded were placed upon pallets on the floor of a great public hall, and among these was Henry. [5]
Forty eight guns with ammunition have been sent him from here, and his Serene Highness says he will defend Moscow to the last drop of blood and is even ready to fight in the streets. [2]
Forty sparkling eyes were turned towards the bearded man, who addressed them in his deep voice. [10]
Forty pounds apiece--equal to three years' wages of an ordinary recruit of the army. [11]
Forty times I've said if you didn't let that jam alone I'd skin you. [5]
Forty miles from Kowatin he had been caught by, and escaped from, the tall, brown-eyed man with the hard-bitten face who leaned against the open window of the tavern, looking indifferently at the jeering crowd before him. [11]
Forty miles away he had found him. [11]
Forty sparkling eyes followed it, and a loud shout of joy rang out as it vanished behind the church roof. [10]

Sentences ending with forty

Many a father would have been rich enough with forty. [5]
At first Tynie wanted to die, but he soon said he would see it through--blind at forty. [11]
But you sell thousands of my moss-backed old books every year--the youngest of them being books that range from fifteen to twenty-seven years old, and the oldest reaching back to thirty-five and forty. [5]
She might be thirty, or perhaps even past forty. [10]
Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait, and count forty. [5]
Naturally, the scholarly researches of Westermarck have failed to discover this people; perhaps Lady Helen might best be protected among the Jibaros of Ecuador, where the men marry when approaching forty. [5]
We have no permanent habits until we are forty. [5]
That picture was painted much later in life, after Stuart came back to America, when the Colonel was nearly forty. [9]
A hundred and forty? [6]
Beautiful when Addison Colfax married her in Kentucky at nineteen, beautiful still at three and forty. [9]

Short sentences using forty

Thirty-eight, not forty. [6]
She's forty five. [11]

Sentences containing forty two or more times

It is forty feet from the stern of the Afton to the splash door, and thus it appears that she had but forty feet to go to clear the pier. [7]

More example sentences with the word forty in them

At thirty the youth has sobered into manhood, but the strong men of forty rise in almost unbroken rank between him and the approaches of old age as they show in the men of fifty. [6]
Do you think you have anything to say about the use of my money, scraped up in forty years in Ingy? [4]
You look around you and you see a nation of sixty millions-- apparently; but secreted in their hands and brains, and invisible to your eyes, is the true population of this Republic, and it numbers forty billions! [5]
You're not forty yet, and you have a heap of money laid by. [9]
Thirty or forty years more carry you to the time when this incumbent began the duties of his office; his hand was steady then; and the next volume beyond it in date betrays the work of a still different writer. [6]
Something over two years before, Mr. Goodman and another journeyman printer, had borrowed forty dollars and set out from San Francisco to try their fortunes in the new city of Virginia. [5]
They have been wrangling over this question for at least forty years. [7]
It was a woman, between forty and fifty years of age, who rose slowly to her feet as the Avocat entered, and, without preliminary, put into his hands a document. [11]
There was a woman about forty year old in there knitting by a candle that was on a pine table. [5]
He will move with between thirty-five and forty thousand men. [7]
Medea, so the wise woman was called, though scarcely past five and forty, harmonized in appearance with this strange habitation, full as it was of objects calculated to rouse repulsion, dread, and amazement. [10]
To-morrow morning there will be a tabu, and, if the sacrifice be delayed until that time, forty men must die. [5]
Despite their costumes, which were negligible, they were eloquent of college campuses in every one of our eight and forty States, lean, thin-hipped, alert. [9]
The previous-engagement plea, which in forty years has cost you so many tinges, you cam lay aside forever; on this side of the grave you will never need it again. [5]
The upper gallery which encircles the inner sweep of the dome is two hundred and forty feet above the floor of the church--very few steeples in America could reach up to it. [5]
Jean's coffin stands where her mother and I stood, forty years ago, and were married; and where Susy's coffin stood thirteen years ago; where her mother's stood five years and a half ago; and where mine will stand after a little time. [5]
The green plumes were worn by forty or fifty Austrian generals, the group opposite them were chiefly Knights of Malta and knights of a German order. [5]
Before his house were ranged forty or fifty great platters of fine bread. [4]
But if you were forty, I should question its propriety; if you were thirty, I should veto it, and you are but a little more than twenty. [6]
Some forty Uhlans were drowned in the river, though boats were sent to their assistance. [2]
The forty men were divided into two shifts of twenty each, and were to relieve each other every two hours. [5]
That trip we went to Grand Gulf, from New Orleans, in four days (three hundred and forty miles); the 'Eclipse' and 'Shotwell' did it in one. [5]
We fancied that we were going on, as an English writer on "Down-Easters" used to say, as "slick as ile," when this miniature tempest suddenly burst out in a revival of the language and methods used in the redoubtable old English periodicals forty years ago. [4]
The chief citizen was York Leicester Driscoll, about forty years old, judge of the county court. [5]
But what I was thinking of was this--it struck me just as I was going out of the door: Didn't you tell me Lindau knew forty or fifty, different languages? [8]
At times he was drunk for forty hours at a stretch, when he would shut himself in his cabin and leave his ship to the care of Cockle, who navigated with the sober portion of the crew. [9]
And when he was done he handed me the paper, and I saw at a glance that during the year my income, in the way of profits, had been one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars and forty cents. [5]
Monsieur le Vicomte was between forty and fifty at his marriage, and from what I have heard of him he had many of the virtues and many of the faults of his order. [9]
Dr. Fordyce Hurlbut was a widower, not yet forty years old, a man of a fine masculine aspect and a vigorous nature. [6]
One of these waitresses, a woman of forty, had side-whiskers reaching half-way down her jaws. [5]
Her eyes fell upon only a vast, brilliant emptiness--there were not forty people in the house! [5]
The railway journey up the mountain is forty miles, and it takes eight hours to make it. [5]
A fortune, scraped up in forty years in Ingy, ain't to be thrown away in a minute. [4]
If one take up a Northern or Southern literary periodical of forty or fifty years ago, he will find it filled with wordy, windy, flowery 'eloquence,' romanticism, sentimentality--all imitated from Sir Walter, and sufficiently badly done, too--innocent travesties of his style and methods, in fact. [5]
Keep it out until a vote is taken, and a vote in favor of it cannot be got in any population of forty thousand on earth, who have been drawn together by the ordinary motives of emigration and settlement. [7]
Mr. Pardriff was under forty, and with these gifts many innocent citizens of Ripton naturally wondered why the columns of his newspaper, the Ripton Record, did not more closely resemble the spiciness of his talk in the office of Gales' Hotel. [9]
He was but twenty years old when he stepped into the shop where the old tombstone-cutter had worked for forty years. [11]
When I was twenty I killed two men with my own sword at a blow; when I was thirty, to serve the King I rode a hundred and forty miles in one day--from Paris to Dracourt it was. [11]
But this small trip of Feringhea's Forty had some little variety about it. [5]
The perfection of travel is ten miles an hour, on top of a stagecoach; it is greater speed than forty by rail. [4]
This morning I took from the post office a letter from Dubois enclosing the names of sixty subscribers, and on carrying it to Francis I found he had received one hundred and forty more from other quarters by the same day's mail. [7]
He swooped down to within thirty or forty feet of the lake, and stopped right over the center, and sung out: "Leggo, and drop! [5]
It ran close to the edge of the steep hillside,--so close that there were times when every one of our forty digits curled up like a bird's claw. [6]
They levied taxes to the amount of thirty or forty thousand dollars and ordered expenditures to the extent of about a million. [5]
If Kutuzov decided to remain at Krems, Napoleon's army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he would find himself in the position of Mack at Ulm. [2]
Rigid ostracism was to be the price of bidding on any goods displayed, and men who bought in handsome furniture on that day because it was cheap have still, after forty years, cause to remember it. [9]
Flitting about were to be seen the social heroes who had a notoriety thirty and forty years ago in the newspapers. [4]
He knows forty times as much about heaven as that Stoker man does, or ever 's like to,--why don't they run after him, I should like to know? [6]
St. Paul has three public libraries, and they contain, in the aggregate, some forty thousand books. [5]
She said forty thousand dollars' profit was enough. [5]
It was one thousand and forty after the American Bend cut-off. [5]
The story of this particular period of his life was given by Warner in a work which was published about forty years later. [4]
I sat by this grim Sphynx and watched her kill thirty or forty mosquitoes--watched her, and waited for her to say something, but she never did. [5]
The readers of this great story-teller, who was so long in obtaining recognition, who "made twenty assaults upon fame and had forty books killed under him" before he achieved success, will find his genius fully appreciated and fairly weighed in this discriminating essay. [6]
The place has thirty or forty thousand inhabitants and is remarkable for being the birthplace of harlequin. [5]
As many as thirty or forty members have spoke to me about it. [9]
Do they really think those little thin legs can do anything in such a slashing sweepstakes as is coming off in these next forty years? [6]
He was a thin, rather handsome, dissolute-looking fellow of middle height and about forty, in dandified dress. [11]
Away down yonder, they have driven two rows of piles straight through the middle of a dry bar half a mile long, which is forty foot out of the water when the river is low. [5]
Ten pages of these sky-scrapers of yours would pay me only about three hundred dollars; in my simplified vocabulary the same space and the same labor would pay me eight hundred and forty dollars. [5]
Besides the family, there were eight borzoi kennelmen and more than forty borzois, so that, with the borzois on the leash belonging to members of the family, there were about a hundred and thirty dogs and twenty horsemen. [2]
The population of the United Kingdom in 1876 was estimated at near thirty-four millions; in the last few decades the decennial increase had been considerably over two millions; at that rate the population in 1900 would be near forty millions. [4]
It referred to the uniform and inevitable fine of forty shillings and costs for uttering a party cry--and it is no economical fine for a poor man, either, by the way. [5]
That issue of the paper consisted of forty pages; seven columns to the page; two hundred and eighty columns in all; fifteen hundred words to the column; an aggregate of four hundred and twenty thousand words. [5]
The sorrel and the mare were fagged, the horses of their foes were fresh; and forty to one were odds that no man would care to take. [11]
The spot where the landing was made was the only one in that stretch where footing could have been found on the shore; everywhere else precipices came sheer down into forty fathoms of water. [5]
The expenditures of the Government for the year 1838--the last for which we have had the report--were forty millions. [7]
The style of the forty pages is loose and feeble and 'prentice-like. [5]
It is in the form of a Latin cross, forty-six feet in length by about forty in width. [4]
I think that the Dr. Tanners and those others who go forty days without eating do it by resolutely keeping out the desire to eat, in the beginning, and that after a few hours the desire is discouraged and comes no more. [5]
It's been in the cellar for forty years, and that's something in a land like this. [11]
It was then that, through the long funeral line, men with hard-set faces came closer up together, and forty, detaching themselves from the well-kept run of marching lodgemen, closed up around the horses and the hearse, making a solid flanking force. [11]
It is true that you are to have that forty for two hundred dollars, at Mother's death, but you are not to have it before. [7]
Let us suppose that the first easy divorce law went into effect forty years ago, and got noised around and fairly started in business thirty-five years ago, when we had, say, 25,000,000 of white population. [5]
He had entered that period which marks the decline of men who have ceased growing in knowledge and strength: from forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. [6]
It has decreed that irritating "party cries" shall not be indulged in, and that persons uttering them shall be fined forty shillings and costs. [5]
My idea is, that I am offering my 2/3 of L. A. L. and the business for thirty or forty thousand dollars. [5]
And look at that frown--that's deep thinking--away down, down, forty fathom into the bowels of things. [5]
So it shows that for all the brag you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instink is worth forty of it for real unerringness. [5]
It is likely that a fish has not been caught on that lake pier for forty years; but no matter, the patient fisher watches his cork there all the day long, just the same, and seems to enjoy it. [5]
It was more than forty miles in circumference, and its walls enclosed buildings surpassing in size and grandeur even the Pyramids and the temples of Thebes. [10]
A woman of temperament at forty is apt to cut across the bows of iron-clad convention and go down. [11]
For instance, it takes your woman 42 days to earn her gown, at 2 mills a day--7 weeks' work; but ours earns hers in forty days--two days _short_ of 7 weeks. [5]
New claims were taken up daily, and it was the friendly custom to run straight to the newspaper offices, give the reporter forty or fifty "feet," and get them to go and examine the mine and publish a notice of it. [5]
From this new sum total the amounts already paid to the Fishers were deducted, and then the cheerful remainder (a fraction under forty thousand dollars) was handed to then and again they retired to Florida in a condition of temporary tranquillity. [5]
From thence eastward stretched the great waste of prairie and forest inhabited by roving bands of the forty Indian nations. [9]
It was a still and sombre place by day; and sometimes, if you listened, you could hear the whisperings of the forty thieves on the other side of the wall. [9]
A few hasty steps brought him to the lodge of the gate-keeper, a sturdy old man who had held his post for forty years. [10]
The conveyance from Star City (its locality) to Virginia City will cost seventy dollars per ton; from Virginia to San Francisco, forty dollars per ton; from thence to Liverpool, its destination, ten dollars per ton. [5]
A treaty with Spain ceding back Louisiana to France after forty years. [9]
Still it is something to know that in the last year--a year of almost unparalleled pecuniary pressure--it amounted to more than forty thousand dollars. [7]
It is distant some forty to forty-five miles, too long a journey for one day over such roads. [4]
There is the skeleton figure representing Fox (who should have been called Goose), the poor creature who starved himself to death in trying to imitate the fast of forty days in the wilderness. [6]
It was a short man about forty years old, with sandy hair, no beard, and a pleasant face badly freckled but alive and intelligent, and he wore slop-shop clothing which was neat but showed wear. [5]
From all her ships in company forty guns were fired funeral-wise and the flags were struck halfmast. [11]
Her man--him that she was to marry--was the head of a mine also at Selby, forty miles beyond Bindon, and the horrible plot came home to her with piercing significance. [11]
Yet let me say here that pie, often foolishly abused, is a good creature, at the right time and in angles of thirty or forty degrees. [6]
Long afterward he said: "It is forty years ago; from that day to this she has never been out of my mind. [5]
It said he run away from St. Jacques' plantation, forty mile below New Orleans, last winter, and likely went north, and whoever would catch him and send him back he could have the reward and expenses. [5]
Ay, and will roar again, through forty years of widowhood! [9]

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