three score and ten
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three score and ten
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From the Bible, Psalm 90, verse 10: "The days of our years are three score and ten."
number three-score and ten · three-score-and-ten · threescore and ten · threescore-and-ten
- Seventy, being the number of years in a full lifetime of traditionally-expected duration. "Why, a man with any feeling ought to be ashamed of being eighty, let alone more. Where’s his religion, I should like to know, when he goes flying in the face of the Bible like that? Threescore-and-ten’s the mark, and no man with a conscience, and a proper sense of what’s expected of him, has any bu
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num seventy
| Français | trois vingt dix |
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