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Application was made to the Dutch for assistance; and, as Stowe expresses it: "The Hollanders came roundly in with three-score sail, brave ships of war, fierce and full of spleen, not so much for England's aid as in just occasion for their own defence, these men foreseeing the greatness of the danger that might ensue if the Spaniard should chance to win the day and get the mastery over them; in due regard whereof, their manly courage was inferior to none."
Anything to keep the fire alight." "Why so, sir?" asked the old man "The fire's been flickering down this many a year. Why not let it go out quietly, at three-score years and ten? You're sure my maid don't know?" They put him into his bath, and he revived a little. "No; I am not going to get well; so don't you waste your time on me, sirs! I'm taken while doing my duty, as I hoped to be.
It is no small thing to carry such a mind for three-score years under the glory of the heavens, through the glory of the earth, midst the majesty of the summer and the sanctity of the winter, while all things animate and inanimate rush in through open windows. For one thus sensitively constituted every moment trembles with possibilities; every hour is big with destiny.
"There, there," broke in Mr. Bright, quietly, as the brimming eyes of the woman before him began to overflow, "do what you can with the boy, and I will not give him up till I have to;" and so saying, he went on to dinner. But in a country town news travels fast. As soon as school was out at noon, three-score tongues were busy retailing the mild scandal to attentive listeners, whenever met.
So again, "when we speak of three-score and ten, we are counting by the vigesimal system, each score thus ideally made, standing for 20 for 'one man' as a Mexican or Carib would put it." 'Royal Institution of Great Britain, March 15, 1867. So it is with the art of writing, for letters are rudiments of pictorial representations. It is hardly possible to read Mr. 'Primitive Marriage, 1865.
Three-score dauntless "pathfinders" are sleeping here around intrepid Fremont. It is early March in 1846. Over in the valley the herd-guard watch the animals. "No, not an Indian," mutters the sentinel. "They would stampede the horses at once. No Mexican would brave death here," muses Valois. Only a boy of twenty, he is a veteran already. He feels for his revolver and knife.
They have had their time. They knew that a man's life is three-score years and ten; they should have made their plans accordingly! "But the young," she said, "the young, cut down, cruelly, when they have not seen, when they have not known when they have not found it is for them that the bells weep blood. I heard in the ringing it was an old man.
Harvey Richter asked immediately for the chief or leading man, and shortly stood in his presence. He found him a short, thick-set half-breed, whose age must have been well-nigh three-score years, and who, to his astonishment, was unable to speak English, although many of his subjects spoke it quite intelligibly. He understood Sioux, however, and the missionary's companion acted as interpreter.
Abraham answered, I found that he did not worship the true God, and so I turned him out of doors. The Almighty thus rebuked the patriarch: Have I borne with him three-score and ten years, and couldst thou not bear with him one night? Has the Almighty, said Mr.
Uncle Ben went fast asleep on my back, being jaded and shaken beyond his strength, for a man of three-score and five; and as soon he felt assured of safety he would talk no more. And to tell the truth he snored so loudly, that I could almost believe that fearful noise in the fog every night came all the way from Dulverton.
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