Joe's eccentric father was then more thanseventy years old; and twenty-five months afterwards was born another son, Joseph's only brother.
Rameses the Great reigned for nearly seventy years in the fourteenth century before Christ.
The late United States Senator Hoar, in An Autobiography of Seventy Years.
The late Senator Hoar in his Autobiography of Seventy Years has some very shrewd remarks about Matthew Arnold.
Talk not of seventy years as age; in seven I have seen more changes, down from monarchs to The humblest individual under heaven, Than might suffice a moderate century through.
Something, I have said, may be done in the short period of seventy years.
There are those who can hardly be said, at seventy years of age, to have twenty-five thousand five hundred and fifty ideas in their heads.
But something may be done, even in the short period of seventy years.
Seventy years is all which they themselves think it possible to ask for; and as all developments are slow, one or two entirely exhaust it, and they require a multitude to effect their purpose.
Is it possible to bridge over the interval which separates the Synoptics from the Jewish atmosphere of thought and feeling of the year 30, in seventy years, if it required sixty years to effect the development in question?
And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre [i.
Tyre shall be forgotten [as a Nation] seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
This was that the "Daughter of Sidon," as a Nation, should be forgotten seventy years, and then be restored to memory and power.
Colonel Hungerford, at the ripe age of seventy years, is hale and hearty, enjoying life and resting on his laurels in Italy, where he resides with his granddaughter, the Princess Colona.
Remembrance ofseventy years of life in the Far West and amid the Rocky Mountains!
It now ceased to exist as a distinct Government, to the great regret of its inhabitants, after having been administered tolerantly and loyally for a period of seventy years, as has been narrated above, in Chap.
Talk not of seventy years as age; in seven I have seen more changes, down from monarchs to The humblest individuals under Heaven, Than might suffice a moderate century through.
Rav Yehudah says in the name of Shemuel:--There is yet another festival in Rome, which is observed only once in seventy years, and this is the manner of its celebration.
The bearing-time of the flat-headed otter lasts seventy years; a parallel may be found in the carob-tree, from the planting to the ripening of the pods of which is seventy years.
The outside of the shell of the purple mollusk resembles the sea in color; its bodily conformation is like that of a fish; it rises once in seventy years; its blood is used to dye wool purple, and therefore this color is dear.
Everybody knows why a bride enters the nuptial chamber, but against him who sullies his lips by talking about it, the decree for good, though of seventy years' standing, shall be reversed into a decree for evil.
New faces I saw everywhere, and pensive thoughts were naturally suggested when one traversed memories of seventy years.
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