Never-ending tortures throughout the countless ages of eternity for the little crimes of threescore years and ten!
Let a man do evil every moment of his life, and let his life be the full threescore years and ten; shall there not come a period in the endless cycles of eternity when even his punishment shall end?
Give me one kind assuring word, To sink my fears again, And cheerfully my soul shall wait Her threescore years and ten.
Tis but at best a narrow bound That heaven allows to men, And pains and sins run thro' the round Of threescoreyears and ten.
Although he be threescore and ten, his hair is still abundant and tolerably black, and there is considerable colour in his cheek.
He ruled threescore and ten years, after which he went to the mercy of the Lord and I reigned as Sultan in his stead.
By the way, tell Stosch that a gold Alectus sold at Lord Oxford's sale for abovethreescore pounds.
I perceive Miss Jenny (207) would not venture to Ireland, nor stray so far from London; I am glad I shall always know where to find her withinthreescore miles.
I mention this because on the death of Princess Amelia the newspapers revived the story and told it of her, though I had heard it threescore years before of one of her grandfather's mistresses.
But it was worth any man's while to live to the age of threescore years and eight, with a sound mind in a sound body, and eyes almost as good as ever, if there were nothing for it more than to see what I saw at this moment.
A man who, at threescore years and five, was compelled to rack his memory (even after being long in uncontrolled authority) to find a time when he might have given cause for private enmity!
Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
And bad or good, The old allotted years of men I have endured as best I could, Threescore and ten!
Although he has reached the age of nearly threescore years and ten, his frame is massive and his posture, when standing, typifies the forest oak.
Chief Running Fisher had measured threescore years of life, and for forty years of that time he had averaged a battle for every other year.
His massive frame, lion-like head, and dignified bearing show few of the marks of the more than threescore years written upon his life.
And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
At threescore years: does he stay his hand In token of lessening powers?
Threescore and ten: he has surely laid The burden of sowing down?
Ten and threescore cycles Are complete today; Loving benedictions Speed you on your way.
I wish that thou shouldst live the life they lived: But 'tis a long time to look back, my son, And see so little gain from threescore years.
There was no mistake--he was gazing at a man of threescoreand ten--a baby of threescore and ten, a baby whose feet hung over the sides of the crib in which it was reposing.
Behold the bed of Solomon (the judgment-seat of God), threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
The fact that our knight lived to the age ofthreescore odd is a proof (by induction) that he must have been born somewhere, and at a date anticipatory by some sixty odd years of that of his death.
What is the knight at any time without his charger--especially when he labours under physical disadvantages which make "eight yards of uneven ground" a journey as terrible as "threescore and ten miles afoot?
And afterthreescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come --the Romans under Petronius in A.
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years.
And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
He was now about threescore years of age, and wished himself no younger, having seen enough of the world to know that to pass through it once is quite enough.
He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.
These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.
And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.
And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.
These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.
Story, the American sculptor-poet, we perceive that there has been little modification of method in the past threescore years.
Afterwards, to fill up any vacancy that might happen, he ordered the most worthy men to be selected, of those that were full threescore years old.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "threescore" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
