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How to use fourscore in a sentence

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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.
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.
And as the storms subsided men perceived that everywhere the days were hotter than of yore, and the sun larger, and the moon, shrunk to a third of its former size, took now fourscore days between its new and new.
And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years.
So the number of them, with their brothers that were instructed in the songs of the Lord, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
He saith unto him, Take thy bond, and write fourscore.
Old Martha was standing at a table trussing a pair of chickens for the market stall as she had trussed them for nearly fourscore years.
Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.
In short, Mellonism is as wrong now as it was fourscore years ago.
Examples from Classical Literature
I could not make less than fourscore bows, of which about twenty might be to Whigs.
It is something to have climbed the white summit, the Mont Blanc of fourscore.
But I have grown strong and hearty, and no doubt I shall come to fourscore.
Their course lay up the river of May, more than fourscore leagues.
Good Stutely, cut thou a fair white piece of bark four fingers in breadth, and set it fourscore yards distant on yonder oak.
And the band increased by other stout hearts till by the end of the summer fourscore good men and true had sworn fealty.
Each of the others should have fourscore silver pennies for his shooting.
St. Maws is garrisoned by an able-bodied person of fourscore, a widower.
They who think man enjoys all the knowledge of the creatur's of God, will live to be disappointed, if they reach, as I have done, the age of fourscore years.
Fourscore thousand pounds do not stand in need of an advocate to recommend them.
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