Forty

Examples

• On succeeding days longer flights were made, one of two miles at a speed of forty-six miles an hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Ott, who has remained in his employ for over forty years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He carried his sixty years as if they had been fewer than forty. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In 1635 he moved to what is now Windsor, Connecticut, and was the surveyor for that colony for more than forty years. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The railways reduced this journey for any ordinary traveller to less than forty-eight hours. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My good friend, said the King, you have now been five and forty years in the service of my mother and myself; we have allowed you to retain your religion in the midst of fire and slaughter. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Forty-Niners took revolvers to California, foreign governments sent orders for them, and armories were built in England and in Russia for their manufacture. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Five-and-forty green parasols, at seven and sixpence a-piece. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• With Ephesus, forty miles from here, where was located another of the seven churches, the case was different. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• At Jaffa we had taken on board some forty members of a very celebrated community. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I suppose the Academy was bacon and beans in the Forty-Mile Desert, and a European gallery is a state dinner of thirteen courses. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The heating furnace and oil tank are served by a sixty-ton traveling crane and forty-ton jib crane. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Dairymen collect milk over a radius of thirty or forty miles and get it to market fresh. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• An iron rod about forty feet long and sharp at the end was placed upr ight in the hope of drawing electricity from the st orm-clouds. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Was it likely that a young woman of twenty-one would die before a man of forty five, and die without children? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was this intensely interesting side of bee life that attracted the attention of a clergyman in failing health, forced to seek out-of-door occupation, in the early forties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Their use was known to our seafaring men in the forties, for it was in that decade that Capt. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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