The first prize was to be twoscore and ten golden pounds, a silver bugle horn inlaid with gold, and a quiver with ten white arrows tipped with gold and feathered with the white swan's-wing therein.
Twoscore and ten I give to thee for thine own shooting, and five I give to each band for their pleasure.
Twoscore of great wax candles for the Chapel of Saint Thomas.
Just ahead of them the road took a sudden turn around a high hedge, and some twoscore paces beyond the bend another road crossed the one they were riding upon.
Still twoscore or so of vessels go to the Grand Banks, and as many more engage in the fresh fishing.
The ladder rose inch by inch, slowly, for it must have been no easy task for even twoscore men to raise it thus with ropes or other devices, especially when the bottom of it neared the top of the ledge.
Here were some twoscore tiny jugs, bubbling full of mischief, with one bright, sympathetic girl of twenty-two keeping a finger on every dancing lid.
It was the same appeal that had been made for twoscore years in order to perpetuate the dynasty of gubernatorial figureheads who had obeyed the ring's orders.
Fright had trodden close on the heels of much joy--for the superintendent of the Consolidated had taken him out of the hot trench that day and had appointed him boss of twoscore Italian diggers, doubling his pay.
Some twoscore men were gathered round the table, staring with masked faces at a map spread before them--a map showing all the provinces of the south, with towns and castles marked in vermilion ink thereon.
Parley, forsooth," quoth he; "talk no more to me of parleys when I have twoscore thousand smiters at my back.
The Northerners under Morolt boasted themselves twoscorethousand men, and there were the loyal levies of the midland provinces to march under "The Golden Sun" upon the south.
Some twoscore thousand men had marched with Fulviac into the forest's sanctuary.
I was face to face with twoscore Fellow Citizens, in clean blouses and extra frills.
Presently there emerged from the forest, in front of the gate, twoscore or more of men in complete armour.
The twoscore with their battering ram threw down their bulky burden at the gate, and endeavoured to put it to its use, but it was soon evident they could not hold the position they had won.
The great tree was borne aloft on the shoulders of more than twoscore men, who were distributed equally on either side of it, and so it advanced slowly, with its white body and gaunt branches, like an enormous centipede.
Not all could work in these matters, and twoscore were selected by lot for the first hunting, going out in four parties, with a command not to venture too far.
When the tragedy of Carpezan had run some thirty or twoscore nights, other persons of genius took possession of the theatre.
After twoscore years and three it was all strangely familiar.
VII At last after three long years of fight he stood before them alone, confronting twoscore Dogs, and men with guns to back them--but facing them just as resolutely as I saw him that day in the wintry woods.
A score of dangers beset him here, but there was also a score of unusual delights and a score of holes in the fence for times when he had to fly, with at least twoscore of expedients to help him afterward.
You travel withtwoscore of men; I with a thousand.
Harry of England will be glad to hear that the King of Scotland has destroyed twoscore of his stoutest warriors.
Of the twoscore and ten thousand, when they were counted o'er, There 'scaped out of that battle but an hundred men and four.
The priests were attended by about twoscore armed Frenchmen.
Perhaps the lack was not seriously felt, for most of the twoscore inmates of the settlement were Huguenot traders.
But that was when Scattergood's hair was touched with gray and his girth had increased by twoscore pounds.
Of all the rulers not twoscore had escaped, and these into regions of peril which to describe as sanctuary would be mockery.
For up that path were running twoscore of Lugur's men, while from below Lugur's own voice roared.
And this was the indescribable ceremony nipped in the bud by our young lieutenant and his twoscore men, to whose energy, courage, and skill Major Berry gave all credit, though Garrett claimed it "in the name of my troop.
Another penitential of the period prescribes twoscore days or a year for divination or diabolical incantations, but seven years if a woman threatens another with sorcery, to be reduced to four if she is poor.
Almost immediately he was joined by about twoscore men, all armed with spear and bow and arrow, and, like himself, brown-skinned and stalwart.
These attacks, which argued the existence of a host of enemies, were all the work of the escaped chieftain and his twoscore of followers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twoscore" 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
