fourscore

Back when people lived their fourscore years, on average, those words said even more than they do today.

In eight and twenty days, I'll make an old man of fourscore, a child.

"Fourscore years and three parts of yet another score."

It was a mighty weight even for fourscore priests.

War with France went on over fourscore years.

If the fox plays me false, he will be slain, both him and his fourscore fighters.

He accordingly gave her a long particular of things necessary for a planter, which, by his account, came to about fourscore or a hundred pounds.

Are you of fourscore pounds a year?

There were fourscore and ten of them.

The fourscore die with me if I prove false, so he was providing himself with extra insurance.

With fourscore more of their people, they had come to make answer to the depredations of the Clave.

And what is with the fourscore?' "

A hard moment passed between them before she replied, "The hustin number fourscore hundred.

Close to fourscore of those white lancers.

St. Maws is garrisoned by an able-bodied person of fourscore, a widower.

Behind him, the fourscore armsmen shift in their saddles.

Between the hills marched another fourscore moles carrying oaken mallets.

Any focus on the fourscore novels is mostly incidental, the biographer's haste again mirroring the subject's own.

'After fourscore years I wonder if death should be accounted troublous.

He went to the wall and studied the patient, forceful pen strokes: "Fourscore and seven years ago.

Their caution appeared to pay dividends since Robert survived fourscore [eighty years].

Fourscore was the signature tune used by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom for 10 years, from 1982 to 1992.

"A little less than fourscore.

You slaughtered close to fourscore, but..." "There wasn't anything else we could do.

Add to that the names of never-seen-here fellows they've uttered, they can't muster less than fourscore.