Scores

Examples

• Scores, says Mr. Bagnet. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Scores of millions were suffering and enfeebled by under-nourishment and misery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He'd have their lives, and the lives of scores of 'em. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• My old eyes have seen them--ay, and those old hands touched them too; for I have helped her, scores of times. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Nothing, for example, could on the surface be more trivial than an interest in baseball scores. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But it's extraordinary the difficulty I have on scores of such subjects, in speaking to any one on equal terms. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Haven't you done it, with other boys, scores of times? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Scores of men claimed to have invented telephones before Bell did, but none ever proved their claims. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Now, we have cleared off old scores, and I have before me thy pleasant, trusting, trusty face again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I see even scores of masks. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Then she would flit along the yard, climb the scores of stairs that led to her room, and take her seat at the window. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Many scores of carriages, with blazing lamps, blocked up the street, to the disgust of No. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Scores of men must have passed their last hours there. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Do you know they would be ruined to pay off my old scores? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Unless--unless you've settled your other scores already--and I'm the only one left out in the cold! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

Typist: Marcus