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Example sentences for "eighty years"

  • Eighty years of age, and he came on foot all the way from Rostock, and I allow the old man to stand and offer him no chair!

  • I am eighty years old, and old age has dried up the fountain of my song.

  • Blucher, jumping up, "eighty years old, and you have come on foot all the way from Rostock!

  • I am eighty years old, general, and my legs are not as strong as they used to be.

  • My memory goes back for more than eighty years.

  • It was my wish that Hake would leave behind him some memorial of Borrow more worthy of himself and his friend than those brief reminiscences contained in Memoirs of Eighty Years.

  • Gully turned tavern-keeper, and making a fortune out of sundry speculations, entered Parliament as member for Pontefract, and lived to be eighty years of age.

  • They are very marked in the Memoirs of Eighty Years, and nearly all the stories of Borrow’s eccentricities that have been served up to us by Borrow’s biographers are due to Hake.

  • And so forty years went on, and Moses was an old man of eighty years of age.

  • Eighty years had he spent in learning to keep his temper; and when he had learned to keep his temper, then, and not till then, was he worthy to bring his people out of Egypt.

  • They are very marked in the Memoirs of Eighty Years, and nearly all the stories of Borrow's eccentricities that have been served up to us by Borrow's biographers are due to Hake.

  • Eighty years are a heavy load; and the burden is still increasing.

  • I have learned this in eighty years, if nothing else, that the present only is ours, the past is gone beyond our recall, the future is in the hand of God.

  • The earliest record of this machine that this author has found was in the second or 1867 edition of Eighty Years of Progress of the United States; the machine is not mentioned in the earlier edition.

  • Both the first-style Family machine and the Letter A machine are illustrated in Eighty Years of Progress of the United States (New York, 1861), vol.

  • Eighty Years of Progress of the United States (New York, 1861), vol.

  • Old people of eighty years sleep on the board floor, nearly all slept in their day-clothes.

  • Sixty, eighty years ago, England was a country like every other, with small towns, few and simple industries, and a thin but proportionally large agricultural population.

  • Bristol, where he died about the year 1557, at the age of eighty years.

  • A venerable old man, named David Fonda, was killed and scalped by an Indian party attached to the expedition, and in its march of a few miles nine aged men, four of them upward of eighty years old, were murdered.

  • I met there a venerable citizen, John Yost, eighty years of age, who had been a resident of the vicinity from his birth.

  • Your Indians have murdered and scalped old Mr. Fonda, at the age of eighty years, a man who, I have heard your father say, was like a father to him when he settled in Johnstown and Kingsborough.

  • Mrs. Sharpstein is still living and although now almost eighty years of age is wonderfully well preserved, being able to do her own marketing and attend to her business affairs.

  • His wife is a representative of a pioneer family of New York and is now living in Dayton at the age of eighty years and is splendidly preserved.

  • This tragedy is the end of eighty years of revolutions, of an eighty years' struggle after Liberty and Fraternity, eighty years of attempts again and again renewed to rebuild French Society on a new and harmonious basis.

  • Eighty years of work for humanity's sake; eighty years devoted to teaching men to love mankind; eighty years of earnest labor, consecrated by friendship, cemented with love and beautified by truth.

  • Do you think that God would drown my innocent brothers and my innocent father and mother all on the same day, because, eighty years ago, that wicked thing was done?

  • No human creature could come back after eighty years still so young.

  • She forgot the present, and was carried back in imagination to the past, eighty years ago.

  • Eighty years after Sir Richard's time there arose a huge Palladian pile, bedizened with every monstrosity of bad taste, which was built, so the story runs, by Charles II.

  • When Polwhele wrote, some seventy or eighty years ago, this picture was in the possession of Richard Hoskins, Esq.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    board again; both from; disturb them; eighty acres; eighty days; eighty leagues; eighty miles; eighty pounds; eighty thousand; eighty years; for the following reasons; free states; hour since; hundred cubits; inch shells; large sheet; political theory; raised again; safe custody; shall have the pleasure; small chamber; state laws; table linen; take home; thou diest; thousand gold