He died in 1818, and, before his death, could find no words but these for her who had been his daughter nearlyforty years: "I know that you never loved me!
He kept her closely confined to the house: not until she was forty did he consider that she was old enough to be allowed to go out alone.
Christ was walking alone and thoughtful one evening in the thick of the forest where he had lived fasting forty days, when he heard the dry twigs behind him snapping beneath approaching footsteps.
He could dodge eleven men and a referee on the football field without trying, but put him in a forty by fifty room with one vase in it, and he couldn't dodge it to save his life.
Dillpickle Academy was a plain old brick building, with one of those cupolas which were so popular among schools and colleges forty years ago.
He'd run until he was pulled down, but you never expected him to explode in the midst of seven hostiles and ricochet down the field for forty yards.
You can bet for the first forty years they didn't do much regulating around the college.
Took me four years to get 'em, working seven days in the week and fortyweeks in the year.
He was first and Father Time was nowhere, forty miles back with a busted tire.
What did we care for the achievements of Achilles and Hector and Hercules and other eminent hasbeens, which we had to soak up at the rate of forty lines of Greek a day?
At his death, after forty years of wandering in the wilderness, Joshua became the leader of Israel, and they crossed the Jordan at Gilgal, a few miles north of the Dead Sea, capturing Jericho in a peculiar manner.
One room seems never to have been completed, but there are burial places here for about forty people.
For over forty years my voice has been heard in the preaching of the Gospel of the Grace of God.
The Plain of Philistia extends thirty or forty miles from the southern limits of Sharon to Gaza, varying in width from twelve to twenty-five miles.
After finishing out a reign of forty years, "the sweet singer of Israel" "slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
The bluff on the opposite side from these steps is perhaps thirty or forty feet high and very rugged.
Had taken away two hundred and forty gallons of water without ever repining at her case or ever fearing the operation.
The average width of the land is about forty miles, and the total area is in the neighborhood of six thousand miles.
His son Solomon succeeded him on the throne, and had a peaceful reign of forty years, during which time the Temple on Mount Moriah was erected, being the greatest work of his reign.
Toward Karnak many of them are yet to be seen in a badly mutilated condition, but there is another avenue containing forty of these figures in a good state of preservation.
It is situated in the valley of the Litany, at an elevation of two thousand eight hundred and forty feet above the sea.
It would take them a good forty minutes to reach Piper's Hole and return.
I've known the time when the sound of a gun would have fetched forty men out of the Barracks to save life or to take it; and a gun within thirty seconds to alarm all the Islands.
You appear particularly interested in the death of this old Frenchman, that occurred over forty years ago.
Well, you must excuse me; you see, my sight is not as good as it was forty years ago.
Forty years have elapsed since the fortune was placed in your hands.
I have said those are the clothes worn by the strange man who visited you forty years ago?
Our readers will remember that our hero was working for a clue on an event which had occurredforty years previously, and the difficulty is apparent.
All right, sir, to-morrow I commence the search for the missing child, now a woman between forty and fifty.
He had the picture of Amalie, and believed that with his marvelous keenness he could detect a resemblance even though forty years had passed since the picture had been taken.
So I thought, and now one word more: why are you seeking facts about a man who died forty years ago?
Young man," cried Mr. Townsend, "you have raised up the figure offorty years ago.
He never did; and it is justforty years ago that I received the trust.
At half-past eight it followed the ebb down the river, having "proved" the stream for forty miles from its mouth, and being apparently well pleased with its condition.
On June 26th last summer nearlyforty were flying about in the evening, and went across to roost on the eyot.
Forty young chickens were taken by a pair of crows from a farm in one spring.
The wood is quite isolated and not more than forty acres.
It is dug in a gentle hollow, and at a height of some forty feet above the Thames.
These hedges have frequently been clipped by the same man, some old resident in the village, for thirty or forty years.
As many as fortyat a time have been counted on the meadows.
A few birds were shot, and the cover now held some forty partridges, though they are very wild in the low slop, and seldom leave more than one or two stragglers behind when the wood is beaten.
Forty hares had been shot, or just one per acre, as well as a number of rabbits and wild pheasants.
One object when shooting this wood is to get the ground beaten quickly; if there are twenty squares to be beaten, and five minutes are wasted at each, it means a loss of one hour forty minutes.
And if this were in any locality where manufactures were possible, the commercial value of forty acres of reclaimed land would greatly exceed all the expenses attending the steam-engine.
Let us suppose that the moon was at one hundred and twenty thousand miles instead of two hundred and forty thousand, that is, at half its present distance.
Anyhow, she could see well enough at five-and-forty to detect a bit of dust or dirt, or lint left on a plate from the towel, or a chair that was a trifle out of its rightful place.
There were two wax candles burning in their sconces that had been made overforty years ago in Paul Revere's foundry.
Old Adair, who lived forty years among the Indians; not these tribes, indeed, but the southern Indians; does great justice to their religious aspiration.
It's all o' forty mile to the neardest of the Roaring Fork towns.
You are forty miles from the nearest sheriff's office over there; but when you need help, you'll get it.
Five-and-forty is the age at which he begins to make his taste felt in the art world, and the cause of his collection is the following, or an analogous reason.
Born in the morning, the female of the Great Peacock moth sometimes has visitors the night of the same day; but more often on the second day, after a preparation of forty hours or so.
Counting ten minutes for each egg-chamber, the full series of forty would represent a period of six or seven hours.
Come from all points of the compass, warned I know not how, here were forty lovers eager to do homage to the maiden princess that morning born in the sacred precincts of my study.
After riding thirty orforty yards, Anthony stopped, turned his horse again, and forced him through the hazels with some difficulty, and the others again followed in silence through the passage he had made.
He was a tall and big man, who seemed about forty years of age, with a long square-jawed face, a pointed beard and moustache, and shrewd penetrating eyes.
The patrol passed along Cheapside forty yards away from the entrance of the court, a little after three o'clock; and a watchman had cried out half an hour later, that it was a clear night; and then he too had gone his way.
It was an amphitheatre, perhaps forty yards across; and the seats round it were filled with the most brilliant costumes, many of which blazed with jewels.
The basement in which he was lying corresponded to the cellar under the house from which he had come, and ran the whole length of the building, about forty feet by twenty.
The bear lay perhaps a hundred feet from the marmot's home, and the marmot had fed perhaps forty feet from it--a distance he could quickly cover if the visitor showed unfriendly symptoms.
Thus they bickered, fought and made up, close to forty years.
They varied in width from a hundred feet to half a mile, in depth from forty to a hundred feet.
Shorty was heading for Central City, where mining had been in full blast for forty years.
Setting my camera at forty feet, I again slowly advanced.
From the first week in June until the middle of December, they grew from fifteen pounds to forty each.
In places it appeared to be ten to fortyfeet thick.
Forty miles of snowcapped peaks were at my dooryard, and beyond, toward the rising sun, hazy plains stretched away to the illimitable horizon.
I hae taken my ane glass every night for forty years, and I hae ne'er made the ane twa, except New Year's tide.
I hae been your elder for mair than forty years, but I hae ne'er been worthy to carry his holy vessels.
Everything is possible to a man under forty years auld.
Thou knows this, John: I hae forty years mair than thou hast, an' years ken mair than books.
Forty years ago there stood in the lower part of the city of Glasgow a large, plain building which was to hundreds of very intelligent Scotchmen almost sacred ground.
While on a visit to Florence, he met again his old friend Prince Poniatowsky, and also many others whom he had known nearly forty years before, when he had been made an honorary member of the Philharmonic Society of that city.
Her majesty presented him a flower composed of one hundred andforty brilliants in the form of a verbena, and the order of Charles III.
He played also in private for the empress, who presented him with a ring—an emerald in a setting of one hundred and forty diamonds.
It is nearly forty years since I was first introduced to one of the most genial and delightful men I have ever chanced to know.
When Mr. Clay reached the highest flights of his eloquence, one of his admirers in the Senate said that he looked “forty feet high.
He pronounced it the finest specimen of Nicholas Amati in the world, and declared that he had waited forty years for the chance of being its possessor.
I must not omit my thanks for the delight Ole Bull gave with his violin at his first coming to this country more than forty years ago.
They ran only to the trench forty feet farther down and jumped into it, and instantly turning, began pumping lead at the enemy.
A captain of the cavalry came up to Wood and asked permission to withdraw his troop from the top of the hill to a trench forty feet below the one they were in.
Like a big tidal wave Oku's army had swept forward leaving its unwelcome guests, the attaches and correspondents, forty lonely foreigners among seventy thousand Japanese, stranded upon a hill miles in the rear.
They then set out on their journey of forty miles, with half a loaf in their pockets, and money enough to get bread and cheese, and a bottle of the poorest ale, at the far-parted roadside inns.
I wad ken him gin he had been no to say four, but forty days i' the sepulchre!
The all but featureless flat spread forty miles on every side, and the roofs of the largest buildings below were as dovecots.
Just then one might have seen forty or fifty people, moving in single file, led by one with a lantern.
During forty years they have never had enough to give a neighbor a meal, and were never known to give the smallest contribution to the church.
The bomb vessels are about thirty tons, carry a thirteen-inch brass sea mortar, and forty men.
Besides the income thus derived, I give to you permission to use from the principal sum, within the next two years, an amount not exceeding forty per cent.
Here I got intelligence that the enemy had halted at the Eutaw Springs, about forty miles below us; and that they had a reinforcement, and were making preparations to establish a permanent post there.
It is now full two hundred and forty years since treasons were defined, and so long has it been since any man was touched to this extent upon this crime before myself.
On the 20th the fleet cast anchor at the mouth of the harbour of Cadiz, and there discovered fifteen men-of-war, and about forty merchantmen.
The espousals were to take place at Madrid by proxy, within forty days from the receipt of the dispensation; and the princess was to set out for England within three weeks.
Bourbon and Pescara spent forty days in mining and bombarding the place, when they became aware of a tempest gathering which boded their utter destruction.
Not only was his own household lavishly managed, but even those of Henry and Elizabeth, two of his children, consisted of one hundred and forty personages.
Seymour, on finding that the vessel had sailed without him, engaged the captain of a collier for forty pounds to land him in Flanders.
All landed proprietors worth forty pounds a year were called on to accept the title of knight and pay the fees, or were fined, and in default of payment thrown into prison.
I want to get about forty good, pious Presbyterian families to settle around here, and I'll bore wells for 'em, and talk up the church business between times.
Of course they've got a dawg; forty of 'em, like enough!
