In his fortieth year Suso had begun his painful career of self-discipline, which he carried so far as to endanger his life.
The fortieth day, the day of the Ascension, had a special pre-eminence as a day of festal celebrations.
At the end of this probation, and when he had entered his fortieth year, he emerged from his solitude into more active life.
They are frequently met with in Chile, in the Falkland Islands, and in all parts of America traversed by the thirtieth and fortieth parallels.
Its ravages were terrible in America, Europe, and Asia, covering a distance of eighteen hundred miles, and extending obliquely to the equator from the thirty-fifth north parallel to the fortieth south parallel.
As the procession clattered down the driveway and out into the trail along the prairie, the Babe nestled close to her mother and sighed blissfully--she had in mind another surprise that was to help make the fortieth birthday a pleasant one.
For I'll be forty years old, and it needs pleasant things to make a fortieth birthday happy, I can tell you.
In his fortieth year, it is said, Mua¸Yammad began to dream dreams and see visions, and desire solitude above all things else.
No species of the numerous family of the sensitive-plants has migrated as far as the archipelago of the Canary Islands, while on both continents they have been seen in the thirty-eighth and fortiethdegrees of latitude.
They were the tropic grape, (Fucus natans), which grows on submarine rocks, only from the equator to the fortieth degree of north and south latitude.
The southern boundary of Penn’s province was the fortieth degree and a circle of twelve miles around New Castle.
Baltimore insisted upon the fortieth degree as his northern boundary, and the conference was fruitless.
It was supposed that such a circle would be intersected on the west by the fortieth degree of latitude, the proposed boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
The patentees were empowered to hold territory in America extending from the fortieth to the forty-eighth degree of north latitude, and westward from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and they were authorized to settle and govern the same.
He was in the fortieth year of a life full of experience, of a good Bedfordshire family, his father a barrister of the Middle Temple.
When both patents were issued, it was supposed that the fortieth degree would fall near the head of Delaware Bay; but it was afterward found to be so far to the northward as to cross the Delaware River at the mouth of the Schuylkill.
Shall we be asked to conclude that the unknown authors adopted Isaiah's style, his phraseology, from the fortieth chapter to the end of the book?
We are asked to believe that the name of the author of the first thirty-nine chapters, the less important part of the book, has been preserved, but oblivion has overtaken the author of the book from the fortieth chapter to the end.
He uses it ten times before reaching the fortieth chapter, and twelve times in the chapters following, which the critics have assigned to some unknown author or authors.
The members of its pre-war staff meet again intact, because for the most part they belonged to a generation which reached, or had just passed, its fortieth year in 1914.
Jupiter, also, by his superior brightness, sometimes makes a striking figure among the stars; yet his greatest apparent diameter is less than one fortieth that of the sun.
Sir John Herschel proposed a method, by which changes may be determined that amount to only one fortieth of a second.
I reckoned that after we'd paid the chauffeur and for the gasoline and things we'd have about twenty left, so I figured we'd be able to leave a Hundred and Fortieth Street and move down town to a Hundred and Twenty-fifth.
They had a pretty flat in One Hundred and Fortieth Street, where a baby girl had come to bless their union.
Quiet Corners and The Other House are deserted now, and the beautiful things that filled them, and the residence in Fortieth Street, have been distributed.
The Fortieth Street domicile is literally crowded with paintings, carvings, ceramics, and other objects of art.
And would I lunch tomorrow at Mr. Fitch's town house, in East Fortieth Street?
To-morrow, come, and ye shall pay Each fortieth web of cloth to me, As the law is, and go your way.
The Fortieth of the Great Charter says: "To none will we sell, refuse, or delay right or justice.
So it was I, not Elias,' he went on quietly, 'that made terms with Langton touching the fortieth of the New Laws.
The time covered by a representative's term is called a congress; thus we speak of the fortieth congress, meaning the fortieth two years of our constitutional existence.
And all this was done in the fortieth year of the reign of the judges; and it had an end.
There is no note of any interval of time whatever; yet we are told in the thirty-third chapter of this book that Aaron died in the fortiethyear of the wandering.
Justin Martyr was born at Rome about the year 100, and was writing most abundantly from his fortieth to his forty-fifth year.
Fourth: Open the Bible and read the fortieth chapter of Isaiah.
Now the pleasurable sensations induced by the fortieth chapter of Isaiah are among the sensations usually induced by high-class poetry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fortieth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
