Use threescore in a sentence
Sentences starting with threescore
- Threescore years and ten! [5]
More example sentences with the word threescore in them
- A good many young people think nothing about life as it presents itself in the far horizon, bounded by the snowy ridges of threescore and the dim peaks beyond that remote barrier. [6]
- The expedition of Winthrop was scattered by a storm, and reached Salem with the loss of threescore dead and many sick, to find as many of the colony dead, and all disconsolate. [4]
- At threescore and twenty one must expect such hints of what is like to happen before long. [6]
- If you want to be sure not to reach threescore and twenty, get a little box of homoeopathic pellets and a little book of homeopathic prescriptions. [6]
- If you are threescore years old when you begin this mode of life, you may very probably last twenty years, and there you are,--an octogenarian. [6]
- The fact is that I,--for it is myself who am speaking,--have recently arrived at the age of threescore years and twenty,--fourscore years we may otherwise call it. [6]
- There is a terrible parallax between the period before thirty and that after threescore and ten, as two men of those ages look, one with naked eyes, one through his spectacles, at the man of fifty and thereabout. [6]
- Are you quite sure that you wish to live to be threescore and twenty years old? [6]
- Their faces are saddened and wrinkled, as if their few summers were threescore years and ten. [6]
- And then they rode to the damsels, and either saluted other, and the eldest had a garland of gold about her head, and she was threescore winter of age or more--" "The _damsel_ was? [5]
- But, on the other hand, I remember that men of science have maintained that the natural life of man is nearer fivescore than threescore years and ten. [6]
- The Earl of Meldritch, having occupied the town, repaired the walls and the ruins of this famous city that had been in the possession of the Turks for some threescore years. [4]
- Naturally the Biblical limit of threescore and ten suggests itself; but human nature is very queer. [4]
- I pierce the learned man's brain with a single glance, and the treasures which cost him threescore years to accumulate are mine; he can forget, and he does forget, but I retain. [5]
- At twoscore, threescore, is he then full grown? [6]
- I doubt if I ever did; yet oh, how pleasant it would have been, at about the age, say, of threescore and ten, to rake over these ashes for cinders with her,--she in a snowy cap, and I in a decent peruke! [6]
- What kind of audience or reading parish is a man who secured his constituency in middle life, or before that period, to expect when he has reached the age of threescore and twenty? [6]
- Near threescore years are gone since then, when this old man you call grandfather, and some--bless me!--great-grandfather, was a lusty lad like Comyn here. [9]
- Why not confess, after nigh threescore years, that break of day found me pacing the deserted dock. [9]
- He himself lived a little beyond his threescore and ten years. [6]
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