It is a tradition that in some year of the passion-torn 'forties the subject for the Newdigate Prize Poem was Cromwell, whereas the subject for the corresponding poem at Cambridge was Plato.
There is no benefit within the bounds of imagination, so far at least as I can discern, which will not redound to the nation from Ten-Forties as much as from Ten-Twenties.
The Ten-Forties have a good name, which is much to start with.
Why quit our Ten-Forties to stand upon a security which is unknown, and practically foreign, whether at home or abroad?
In the forties the critics refused to recognize the genius of Felicien David, just as they had refused to recognize the genius of Hector Berlioz.
Towards the middle of the forties the Passage de l'Opera began to lose some of its prestige as a lounge.
The forties are a very prominent class and justly so; they emphasise the sport of class racing over handicaps.
The big cutters are leading, and some of the forties astern.
Such a law--on this all were agreed--would have reinstated the public brothels that had been officially abolished in Prussia during the forties of the last century.
Italy furnishes a good example; for there the male population still predominated at the beginning of the forties of the last century, while at present the female population predominates, owing to the large emigration.
In support of the suffrage and of parliamentary representation for workingmen, a wonderful group of orators and organizers carried on in the thirties and forties an immense agitation.
The forties was a germinating period for many new social and economic theories.
In reading his verses written in the Forties we feel how his poet's ear hears the dull underground rumbling of the approaching Revolution, and how he foresees that its crater will open in Paris.
There came a time in the Fortieswhen there existed, not only an école de bon sens outside of the Romantic School, but a phase of bon sens in the lives of the authors within the Romantic circle.
When past the forties it is encouraging to remember that Peary was 52!
In the beginning, these engines weighed from four to seven tons each; by the late forties engines of twenty-five tons each were being built for the Reading Road, and these were regarded as monsters.
Wells and Fargo eventually got together, and in the throbbing days of the late forties and the fifties, Wells, Fargo & Co.
That was the era which saw the weird railroads of the Middle West, the strange stock-watering companies that made the very names of Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois financial bywords in the late forties and the early fifties.
Travelling at night in the crude coaches of the early railroads was an abominable thing, and before the forties the old Cumberland Valley Railroad was operating some crude sort of sleeping-cars.
Astoria's real beginning, from which resulted a city, dates back, then, only to the early forties when the homeseekers first settled here.
But now at the close of the forties came the diversion of the national interest from Oregon amounting almost to an eclipse of Oregon for some fifty years.
What was going on in the South during the thirties and forties of the last century?
In the forties and fifties florid rhetoric was rampant, especially in the West and South, where taste was less polished than in the older States.
Her dower in the other two fortiesshe can let you have, and no thanks to me.
It will convince my hearers that folk in the forties have a great and beautiful and sacred ministry to exercise.
In the ‘forties they almost assume the character of definite prophecies.
In the forties the government of Canada was selling its highways to toll-companies, and was not likely to embark on railway construction.
By the forties New Orleans ranked the fourth port in the world and the Mississippi valley exceeded the British Isles in the ownership of ships' tonnage.
His father was, I think, in the early forties when he died of a cancer behind the eye which caused blindness.
In the forties it was no uncommon thing for a sister or friend of the bride to form one of the wedding party when a journey was to be taken; accordingly Annie Ward went with the Howes and shared the pleasures of a notable year.
The practical jesters of the fifties and the punsters of the roaringforties were tap-room journalists.
In the beginning of the forties he propounded in his works on The Philosophy of Action and Socialism a confused programme, in which the Communism of Weitling was curiously intermingled with the views of Proudhon.
The political attitude of the fortieswas very much the same.
From the eighteen-forties it challenged grimly the modern architect.
She had an advantage over most blondes nearing theforties in that she had not stoutened.
If this thing comes off you'll be in the early forties together.
Comparatively few young Englishmen have beards nowadays, but then comparatively few young Englishmen are in their forties and their thirties at the same time.
The tide of fashion set against him in the eighteen-forties when Bulwer and Dickens rode into favor, but the stouthearted old pioneer could afford to bide his time.
The short-lived literary magazines of the eighteen-forties gave them their hour of glory.
That there was much of the superficial and the spread-eagle in the American life of the eighteen-forties is apparent enough without the amusing comments of such English travellers as Dickens, Miss Martineau, and Captain Basil Hall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
