Crossword-Solution: FOURSCORE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fourscore | n. | Four times twenty; eighty. |
| Fourscore | n. | The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “FOURSCORE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Eighty, in the Gettysburg Address | 1 answer |
| Memorable opening | 1 answer |
| Lincoln's "eighty" | 1 answer |
| Lincoln speech start | 1 answer |
| Gettysburg Address opener | 1 answer |
| First word of a famous speech. | 1 answer |
| First word of a famous address. | 1 answer |
| Eighty, to Lincoln | 1 answer |
| Eighty, to Abe | 1 answer |
| Result when someone hits a grand slam? | 1 answer |
| Beginning of a famous speech. | 1 answer |
| 80, to Lincoln | 1 answer |
| Start of a Lincoln address | 1 answer |
| 1863 speech opener | 1 answer |
| "___ and . . . ": Lincoln | 1 answer |
| Start of a noted address | 1 answer |
| Start of an address | 2 answers |
| Eighty | 2 answers |
| 80 | 2 answers |
| "Address" starter | 2 answers |
| Gettysburg Address word | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FOURSCORE (5)
This Inspector, when I first knew him, was a man of fourscore years, or thereabouts, and certainly one of the most wonderful specimens of winter-green that you would be likely to discover in a lifetime’s search.
Emma, with the latest science of dead-poultry dressing at her finger-tips, sat by, an unheeded watcher, while old Martha trussed the chickens for the market-stall as she had trussed them for nearly fourscore years—all leg and no breast.
Since that happened I have seen fourscore years pass by me, yet I was older then than you are now.” I looked with wonder at this surprising female, and could scarcely believe her words.
And as the storms subsided men perceived that everywhere the days were hotter than of yore, and the sun larger, and the moon, shrunk to a third of its former size, took now fourscore days between its new and new.
The fathers of the people, those of fourscore years and upwards, were disturbed, deeming it strange that they should forget one of such evident authority, whom they must have known in their early days, the associate of Winthrop, and all the old councillors, giving laws, and making prayers, and leading them against the savage.
Quotes with FOURSCORE (3)
I fear no hell, just as I expect no heaven. Nabokov summed up a nonbeliever’s view of the cosmos, and our place in it, thus: “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” The 19th-century Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle put it slightly differently: “One life. A little gleam of Time between two Eternities.” Though I have many memories to cherish, I value the present, my time o…
I distrust the perpetually busy, always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.
It is too late! Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand Oedipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust whe…
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 24 times in crossword archives (1951–2019).