The fourth age from David until the carrying away captive into Babylon, contains according to the Hebrews, four hundred and seventy three years; according to the Seventy Interpreters little less, for they are deficient in one year.
The third age from Abraham until David, contains according to the Hebrews, eight hundred and xl two years; but according to the Seventy Interpreters [Sidenote: 4.
The second age from Noeh until Abraham, contains according to the Seventy Interpreters, a thousand and seventytwo years: according [Sidenote: 3.
The first age of the world, from Adam to Noeh according to the Hebrews, contains a thousand, six hundred and fifty six years; according to the Seventy Interpreters, two thousand two hundred xliiij years.
This aged man (seventy years) with a thousand others, was obliged to walk for twenty-four hours with nothing to eat or drink and arms stretched up straight over their heads.
That of Israel (as was shown by my right noble Lord Phosphorus de Auge, in the opening of the commonwealth) consisted of seventy elders, elected at first by the people.
For a ship this is a cul-de-sac, as Ross found seventyyears ago.
The cocoanut contains about seventyper cent of oil.
Each plant produces a single cluster of from eighty to one hundred or more bananas, often weighing in the aggregate as high as seventy pounds.
Democracy began by declaring men born equal and proceeded in a hundred and seventy years to create equality because it needed every man as a customer.
I think we counted sixty or seventy prostrate beings, who had come in for a night's shelter, and had lain down worn out with fatigue and hunger.
We are already past the Banks of Newfoundland, although our course was seventymiles to the south, with the view of avoiding ice seen by Judkins in the Scotia on his passage out to New York.
Within two years seventy boys and girls were carried into captivity from the town of St. Stanislaus.
This place, which is seventy leagues north of Sta.
This scarcity of all necessaries will not be attributed to our own improvidence when it is recollected that the city of St. Iago, where we had to procure everything, was a hundred and seventy leagues from our town, that of Sta.
Fè, and a hundred and seventy from the land of St. Iago.
We performed a voyage of seventy leagues in eight days, using both oars and sails.
I collect from the journals of that period, that seventy or more were killed in one day.
More probably we should readseventy wives, which at least partially assimilates the number to the "threescore queens" of whom we read in the Canticles.
The wealth and power of Ahab led him to adopt the costly luxury of a harem, and he had seventy sons.
At the age of seventy many men are still in full vigour of strength and intellect, but the conditions of that day were not favourable to longevity.
For he had seventy sons, besides daughters (2 Kings x.
Zacharias was eighty years of ago when his youthful wife of seventy gave birth to her first child.
When I am seventy years of age, your majesty must allow your faithful servant to remember that France is his home, and to seek his grave even where his cradle stood.
When Dagaeoga comes to his death bed, seventy or eighty years from now, and the medicine man tells him but little more breath is left in his body, what then do you think he will do?
Sixty or seventy yards must be sixty or seventy yards only and not a mile.
Above him was the dusky sky and the summit seemed to tower a mile away, but he knew that it was only sixty or seventy yards now, and he took his luxurious imagination severely in hand.
It was capable of hauling sixteen all-steel Pullmans at seventy miles an hour and was as sleek and trim as a greyhound.
About seventy yards of trench had been taken, the parapet shifted over, and the flanking traverses commenced.
The action took place out of the sight and sound of the troops on the transports, which were over seventy miles away from the Cocos Group.
The mounted rifles for once were sorry they had horses, but hardly envied the infantrymen the daily long-distance route marches with the seventy pounds of pack and a rifle, dusty tracks, and an angry sun.
We have travelled two hundred and twenty-seven and a half miles, and in a straight line we are one hundred and seventy miles from Lincoln.
He was at this time thirty-five years of age, weighed one hundred and seventy pounds, and was nearly six feet in height.
In looking for a road I sometimes get a mile or perhaps two ahead of the command, but I always have seventy or eighty men with me, and after to-day I mean to take in addition two more companies.
It fell, and I measured the distance, which proved to be one hundred and seventy yards, and the antelope was found to be shot through the head.
During the next seventy years many other large and influential societies sprang up throughout England and Scotland, the Altcar Club (on the Sefton estates, near Liverpool) being founded in 1825.
The Chinese quarter of this latter town contains sixty or seventy houses, built with bricks dried in the sun, and surrounded by palisades nine feet high, and as strong as those of a rampart.
With the assistance of Luque, he at length succeeded in equipping a small caravel and embarking a body of between sixty and seventy adventurers, mostly of the lowest order of the colonists.
Two hundred andseventy leagues on the meridian, by our measurement, would fall more than a degree short of Cuzco, and, indeed, would barely include the city of Lima itself.
He did not know that his own jurisdiction had been extended seventy leagues further to the south, and he entertained the same suspicion with Almagro, that the capital of the Incas did not rightly come within his present limits.
This letter, the original of which is preserved in Simancas, covers about seventy folio pages in the copy belonging to me.
According to the historian of the Incas, there fell in these expeditions four hundred and seventy Spaniards.
All the previous grants to Francis Pizarro and his associates were confirmed in the fullest manner; and the boundaries of the governor's jurisdiction were extended seventy leagues further towards the south.
The royal grant had placed under his jurisdiction all the country extending two hundred and seventy leagues south of the river of Santiago, situated one degree and twenty minutes north of the equator.
Almagro, at the time of his death, was probably not far from seventy years of age.
The actual number tried was, indeed, much less than 193, for of those who had been kept in prison in connection with that case as many as seventy had perished in their cold, damp cells while waiting to be arraigned.
At the age of seventy or ninety years Protagoras was drowned while on a voyage to Sicily.
Although at this time over seventy years of age his mind was notably clear, orderly and active, and his talk (usually a carefully constructed monologue) was stately, formal and precise.
As many as seventy or eighty persons were often prosecuted in London and Westminster for cursing and swearing, in a single week.
Mental Effects of Solitude[107] I spent the greater part of one winter at a point on the Rio Negro, seventy or eighty miles from the sea.
Bestowal of the New Tongue on the Seventy and Seven, and on the One Hundred and Forty and Four.
The book looked as if it had been bought 'on a visit to London' some seventy or eighty years ago, and had somehow been forgotten and suffered to lie away out of sight.
The Search for the Bride, and the bestowing of the Seals on the Seventy and Seven.
Ten persons only were relaxed, and one hundred and seventy subjected to penances: those who were burnt had relapsed into Judaism.
The reading of the factum of his trial, by the secretary, lasted four hours; the fiscal accused him of having advanced seventy heretical propositions, and seventy-two witnesses were examined.
I have six mouths to feed now, and flour is at seventy kopecks.
I know for a fact that she has seventy thousand roubles in a bank at Odessa, but she is ready to burst into tears if you ask her to lend you a penny.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seventy" 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
