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Meanings of be threescore in English

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Usage of be threescore in English
1
It may be to-morrow; but it may be threescore years away.
Bits about Home Matters
2
Although he be threescore and ten, his hair is still abundant and tolerably black, and there is considerable colour in his cheek.
On the Choice of Books
3
The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
4
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
5
Here were threescore valiant men, of the valiant of Israel.
Sketches of the Covenanters
6
And Darius, the Mede, succeeded to the kingdom, being threescore and two years old.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
7
The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
The King James Bible
8
Their faces are saddened and wrinkled, as if their few summers were threescore years and ten.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
9
Are you quite sure that you wish to live to be threescore and twenty years old?
Over the Teacups
10
6:8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
The King James Bible
11
Thy servant is threescore-and-ten years old; can he hear the sound of singing men and singing women?
Sydney Smith
12
There must have been threescore of us, take one with another, and the lane was full of people.
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
13
'The days of our age are threescore years and ten', and the rest.
Moonfleet
14
'Bless the boy, one would think he was threescore years of age at least.
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
15
What an excellent heart his lordship will have by the time he is threescore, if he sets out thus!
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
16
From that then advance to the final inquiry, what are threescore and ten years on earth to all eternity with God?
Ben-Hur