Meaning of four-score | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B2]

Examples

“This Work⟳, beſides the Poetry, will contain⟳ about four-ſcore Plates of Muſic.”

“3. Every subscriber of one penny per week, who is sixty years of age, or upwards, and under four-score, to be entitled to receive⟳ treble his subscription at the end⟳ of the year; that is, his own⟳ subscription, and twice as much more. 4. Every subscriber of one penny per week, who is four-score years of age, or upwards, and under ninety, to receive⟳ four times his subscription at the end⟳ of the year; that is, his own⟳ subscription, and three times as much more.”

“I was then about four-score years of age, and my infirmities much increased by the severity of my confinement, yet as my day was, so strength was given.”

“In twenty minutes after I left the pulpit, being anxious for letters from my family at home, I threw myself into a coach, and did not halt till I reached Liverpool, where I expected to find⟳ some: a journey of nearly four-score miles, not a small work⟳ for three-score and ten years!”

“Sir George Mackenzie, nine years of age when it occurred, thus refers to the event, with additional circumstances, as being in his time notorious and uncontroverted:⁠—“And our accusers should remember⟳, that these women were executed for higher crimes than the following Montrose’s camp, for which four-score women and children were drowned;[…]””

“Nearly four-score children received gratuitous medical attention and care during 1874, and, had the accommodations been more ample, many more little sufferers would have⟳ been treated.”

“While the survey goes far beyond the upwards of four-score plates, they make⟳ it possible to check the argument at all crucial points.”

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