He mastered the Swedish language, after having passed his seventieth year, chiefly that he might write a correct history of the first settlement of Swedes on the Delaware River below Philadelphia.
Her Majesty also said that she would make our rank known to the Court on her seventieth birthday.
When the Civil War began assisted in raising the Seventieth Indiana Regiment of Volunteers, taking a second lieutenant's commission and raising Company A of that regiment.
In 1862 the Seventieth Indiana went into the field with Harrison as its colonel, their objective point being Bowling Green, Ky.
If they went under the ice at some point eastward, how were they to find the seventieth line of longitude?
At a general council of officers, Sammy and Captain Hubbell both declared that they were not willing to take any other path homeward except one which led along the seventieth line of longitude.
Madam," said he, "these signs lose all their powers above the seventieth parallel of latitude.
If they could get themselves well down into the deep sea at a point on the seventieth line of longitude, they would sail directly south with every confidence of emerging safely into Baffin's Bay.
On his seventiethbirthday he published his first and only pianoforte piece.
Not long ago I saw some men at work in a stone quarry on Second Avenue, at the corner of Seventieth Street, New York.
Those of you who live in New York can go up to Seventieth Street and see it; but the men are busy tearing it down, and before you get there, there may be nothing left but a fine row of cellars or a block of houses.
At the left you can look down Seventieth Street, and see part of the rocky hill on the next block.
If once you thought me rash, no longer fear; Past my next milestone waits my seventieth year.
He had governed his church eight years in peace from the death of Valens, when, in 386, he passed to a glorious immortality, in the seventieth year of his age.
These martyrs suffered in the year 380, the seventieth and last of the reign of Sapor, and the fortieth of his persecution.
To it were carried the treasures of the Astor Library on Lafayette Place, and the Lenox Library at Fifth Avenue and Seventieth Street.
It was a belated celebration of the old soldier's seventieth birthday which had taken place on February 8.
One thing is certain, he would not have weathered his seventieth birthday, at any season, without receiving such a tribute as this, nor would a public dinner have reminded him of days when a poet was glad to get any dinner at all.
When he was appointed Governor for the second time, in 1689, he was in his seventieth year.
On November fifteenth, I had an invitation to a dinner given to Mark Twain on his seventieth birthday.
Anthony's seventieth birthday, a reception at my house brought together not only those favorable to our undertaking but many whom it was desirable to enlist.
From Dansville my daughters and I went on to Washington to celebrate the seventiethbirthday of Miss Anthony, who has always been to them as a second mother.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seventieth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
