Edward, with thame that with him weir, 90 That war nocht fully twa thousand, Arayit thame stalwardly till stand Agane fourty thousand and ma.
The constabill his way is gane, And nyne andfourty with him has tane, Swa that he with thame maid fifty.
And that wes aftir that the gud King, 705 Robert, wes brocht till his ending, Sex and fourty wyntir but mar.
Of all Irland assemblit he Bath burges and chevalry And hobilleris and yhumanry; 80 Quhill he had neir fourty thousand.
Ane hundreth thousand men and ma: And fourty thousand war of tha Armyt on hors, bath hede and hand.
With that thai enterit in ane playne, And saw arayit agane thame stand, In four battellis, fourty thousand.
Then wald he preson hald no mare, Bot on thame ran with suerd al bare, 260 And hewit and slew with all his mayn Till he had nyne and fourty slane.
He haz been told that Sir Henry did not understand Latin perfectly till he was fourty years old.
Wee went under this torrent a quarter of a mille, that falls from the toppe above fourty foot downwards.
Notwithstanding [she was] well beloved of her husband, having lived together more thenfourty years, and in that space brought him 9 children, 4 males and 5 females.
Then, by that count which lovers books invent, The spheare of Cupid fourty yeares containes, Which I have wasted in long languishment, That seem'd the longer for my greater paines.
So, since the winged god his planet cleare Began in me to move, one yeare is spent; The which doth longer unto me appeare, Then al those fourty which my life out-went.
This Emperour, when hee was exalted vnto his gouernment, seemed to bee about the age of fourty or fourty fiue yeeres.
Fourty and fyve off age, Wallace was cauld, That tym that he was to [the] Southeroun sauld.
In the work of the Minstrel we are told “Fourty and fyve off age, Wallace was cauld, That tym that he was to [the] Southeron sauld.
Fourty and fyve off age Wallace was cauld, That tym that he was to [the] Southeroun sauld.
Wallace lay still, quhill fourty dayis was gayn, And fyve atour; bot perance saw he nayn 720 Fol.
Wallace with him had fourty archarys thra; The layff was speris, full nobill in a neid: On thair enemys thai bykkyr with gud speid.
His fyfty men with outyn langar rest, Wallace gart ray in to thar armour prest; Fourty and aucht on luffburd laid thaim law.
This worthi clerk, cummyn off hie lynage, Off Synclar blude, nocht fourty yer off age, 930 Chosyne he was be the Papis consent; Off Dunkell lord was maid with gud entent.
If therefore a Man weigh one hundred and fourty pounds, and his Brain but five, his Weight is 27.
And no mean Observations hereof there is in the Mathematicks of the neatest Retiary Spider, which concluding in fourty four Circles, from five Semidiameters beginneth that elegant texture.
And Ulysses being a boy was promised by his father fourty Fig-trees, and fifty rows of vines,[121] producing all kind of grapes.
Grave-stones tell truth scarce fourty yeers:[98] Generations passe while some trees stand, and old Families last not three Oakes.
And in the wombe of that wenche Was he fourty woukes, Til he weex a faunt thorugh hir flessh, And of fightyng kouthe, To have y-foughte with the fend Er ful tyme come.
For making your Pippin-liquor, you may take about some fourty Pippins to two quarts of water, or so much as to make your Pippin-liquor strong of the Pippins, and the juyce of about four Limons.
Take fourty Gallons of small Ale, and five Gallons of Honey.
He took fourty three Gallons of water, and fourtytwo pounds of Norfolk honey.
And he was in desert fourty dayes and fourty nightis, and was temptid of Sathanas, and was with beestis and angelis mynstriden to hym.
It is alwayes to be remembred that the Congregations exeemed from the fourty shillings are also exeemed from this Collection.
The Generall Assembly Considering that the contribution of fourty shillings for entertaining of Highland boyes at Schools, in respect of the penury and great indigence of those parts hath not taken the intended effect.
And if she were with childe at thilke cast, Na-more sholde he pleyen thilke game Til fully fourty dayes weren past; Than wolde she ones suffre him do the same.
This preest the somme of fourty pound anon Of nobles fette, and took hem everichon 1365 To this chanoun, for this ilke receit; Al his werking nas but fraude and deceit.
Lo, Moyses fourty dayes and fourty night 1885 Fasted, er that the heighe god of might Spak with him in the mountain of Sinay.
If so, his copy differs from ours, which reads 'the humor of fourty fancies.
Mr Collier says that the Quarto reads 'the humor or fourty fancies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fourty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
