Meanings of fortieth time in English

He then steps below, and for the fortieth time reads off the barometer.

She refused me for the fortieth time.

A nobleman at her table, and though for the fortieth time, was ever fresh and delightful to Mrs. Hanway-Harley.

When he declared for the fortieth time that he had been robbed for twenty years, they could not deny it.

But now, just as you have shortened your reins for the fortieth time or so, your master rides up beside you.

It spread into all the great towns of England, was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time; at Bath and Bristol fifty.

For the fortieth time he plucked at a too-tight collar and pulled up his shirt-sleeves, for it was stifling, and he was coatless and waistcoatless.

Even as she wrote the statement for the fortieth time, voices and laughter came from the playground-buta cold silence had come by the fiftieth.

"I just don't get it," I droned on for the fortieth time.

"How long have you been standing there?" I ask, wiping my nose for the fortieth time on the back of my arm.