Our English archers bent their bows-- Their hearts were good and true; At the first flight of arrows sent, Full fourscore Scots they slew.
All the ordnance within Barwick were discharged; the Captain came forth, with fourscore horses bravely arrayed, to do her honour, and offer her lawfull service.
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters.
But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and, dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.
Listen to poor old Barzillai, and hear him piping: "I am this day fourscore years old; and can I discern between good and evil?
This piece of advice, if followed, may be worth from three to five years of thefourscore which you hope to attain.
Yes, let me live to be fourscore years, and then I will tell you whether I should like a few more years or not.
Yes, I love the little globule where I have spent more than fourscore years, and I like to think that some of my thoughts and some of my emotions may live themselves over again when I am sleeping.
This ancient warrior speaks of himself in these brave terms: "Lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
The two girls let me down from fourscore fathoms' height, i.
Its length is fourscore parasangs and its breadth thirty, and it is a great island, stretching between a lofty mountain and a deep valley.
That the souters of Selkirk should, in 1513, amount to fourscore fighting men, is a circumstance utterly incredible.
Then Henrye Hunt with rigour hott Came bravely on the other side, Soone he drove downe his fore-mast tree, And killed fourscore men beside.
Fourscore officers gone to glory, besides all the others as was not worth counting!
His mother, Lady Valeria, was still alive and very active, and having just numbered fourscore years, had attained the right of her own way.
Mac 8:19 Moreover, he recounted unto them what helps their forefathers had found, and how they were delivered, when under Sennacherib an hundred fourscore and five thousand perished.
Mac 5:14 And there were destroyed within the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, whereof forty thousand were slain in the conflict; and no fewer sold than slain.
In all probability, you are indebted to the prayers of St. Francis Xavier for that long and happy life you have enjoyed a hundred and fourscore years!
I have walked many miles and many hours over the heather, with one of the ablest men in Britain: a man whom at fourscore his country can heartily trust with perhaps the gravest charge which any British subject can undertake.
The villa of Marius was purchased, within a few years, by Lucullus, and the price had increased from two thousand five hundred, to more than fourscore thousand, pounds sterling.
The fourscore years, which he deplores, of license and corruption, would seem to insinuate that the Barbarians were admitted into the clergy about the year 660.
A pestilential disease arose from the stagnation of the deluge, and so rapid was the contagion, that fourscore persons expired in an hour in the midst of a solemn procession, which implored the mercy of Heaven.
Their present numbers are esteemed from fifty tofourscore thousand souls, the remnant of a populous church, which was gradually decreased under the impression of twelve centuries.
His title was disputed by Thomas, the last of the military triumvirate, who transported into Europe fourscorethousand Barbarians from the banks of the Tigris and the shores of the Caspian.
But the national enmity, at least the effects of that enmity, had been suspended by a truce, which continued above fourscore years.
From Belgrade to the Euxine, from the conflux of the Save to the mouth of the Danube, a chain of above fourscore fortified places was extended along the banks of the great river.
The first time he died as a man, and came to life again as an ox; and then he died as an ox and came to life again as a horse, and so on until he had died fourscore and four times; and every time he became some kind of animal.
NOTE 4] They tell moreover that he hath died fourscore and four times.
The country produces ginger and galingale in immense quantities, insomuch that for a Venice groat you may buy fourscore pounds of good fine-flavoured ginger.
To conclude: Many exemplary men have I known, holy in heart and life, within fourscore years; but one equal to him I have not known, one so inwardly and outwardly devoted to God.
What is half a century to Patience, or fourscore years to Loyalty, or fourscoreand ten to Friendship, or the last stretch of mortality to waiting Love?
Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, one night, fourscore ducats!
Thou stick'st a dagger in me:--I shall never see my gold again: Fourscore ducats at a sitting!
Of the Indians of Nilco were taken prisoners, fourscore women and children, and much spoil.
The city of St. Jago hathfourscore houses, which are great and well contrived.
He would have lacked but three years of fourscorecome Whitsuntide.
After nigh fourscore and ten years of life that Youth is nearer to me now than many things which befell me later.
Giovanni Rostagnal, a venerable protestant, upwards of fourscore years of age, had his nose and ears cut off, and slices cut from the fleshy parts of his body, till he bled to death.
Judith Revelin, with seven children, were barbarously murdered in their beds; and a widow of near fourscore years of age, was hewn to pieces by soldiers.
And at Gwales in Penvro you will be fourscore years, and you may remain there, and the head with you uncorrupted, until you open the door that looks towards Aber Henvelen, and towards Cornwall.
And there they remained fourscore years, unconscious of having ever spent a time more joyous and mirthful.
And because of these fourscore years, it was called the entertaining of the noble head.
I did hear and understand in all places great bewailing and lamentation made, by reason of destroying and burning of above fourscore thousand of Martin Luther's books, entituled, His last Divine Discourses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fourscore" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dozen; eleven; fortnight; fourscore; octogenarian; score; teens
