Take saltpeter one pound, brimstone halfe a pound, gunpowder fowre ounces, this must be bound up in paper or little ragges, and afterwards primed.
Or take callamita one pound, sal niter and asphaltum, of each fowre ounces, quicke brimstone three ounces, liquid varnish sixe ounces; make them all into a paste.
Take of gunpowder fowre pounds, saltpeter one pound, charcoale fowre ounces, mingle them together.
Take of gunpowder fowre poundes, saltpeter one pound, charcoale fowre ounces, brimstone halfe an ounce, mingle them together.
Take of gunpowder fowre ounces and a halfe, saltpeter one ounce, mixe them together.
Take of gunpowder one pound and one ounce, saltpeter fowre ounces, brimstone three ounces and a halfe, charcoale one ounce, mingle them.
Aboue ouer the coronice, by an inuers gradation there were fowre Quadratures or square Tables, two right ouer the chamfered columnes, and channelled pyllars, and two within them.
Three of these fowreat Pope Alexanders death he had effected, and the fourth he had neare brought to a point.
Hereby grew then in the thousand fowre hundred and nintie and fowre yere, the great feares, the sodaine flightes and the marveilous losses: and so three most mighty states which were in Italie, have bene dievers times sacked and destroyed.
In these cases the straight "dictionary" meaning of the word is given first, and hence, thus, or so are used to indicate contextual departure from this.
Publication of second edition of the Faerie Queene, Books I-VI, Fowre Hymns, and Prothalamion.
A, which do ioyne together the fowreendes of the ij.
About two of the clock I found them all fast asleepe, both the fowre souldiers which sate about mee before the fire, and the two servants of the hangman which lay on a bed in the other end of the roome.
But nyne thowzand, ther was no moo, The cronykle wyll not layne; Forty thowsande of Skottes and fowre That day fowght them agayne.
Ther was slayne upon the Skottës syde, For soth as I yow saye, Of fowre and forty thowsande Scottes Went but eyghtene awaye.
Andrea Dittis, fowre hundred and fyftie taies; and sowne after eight hundred taies in melted plat more of hym.
Mr. Osterwick paid fowre hundred and two taies plate bars to the Japon mareners which came out of England.
Ther was slayne upon the Skottes syde, For soth as I yow saye, Of fowre and forty thowsande Scotts 135 Went but eyghtene awaye.
But nyne thowzand, ther was no moo, 25 The cronykle wyll not layne; Forty thowsande Skottes and fowre That day fowght them agayne.
Johne of Gaunte made in thefowre and twentye yere of his age.
It atteð cariatharbe, On engle ſpeche fowre cite; fowre arbe cariatht arn in, Four lie buried there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fowre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
