Crossword-Solution: THREESCORE
We have 5 clues for the answer “THREESCORE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Four times what's left? | 1 answer |
| SIXTY | 1 answer |
| Sixty, once | 1 answer |
| [60] | 5 answers |
| A SANDGLASS THAT RUNS FOR SIXTY MINUTES | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with THREESCORE (5)
Say all! _Had_ he reason?” Wretched old sinner of more than threescore years and ten, if he had never known it yet, he would have known it in his heart of hearts if he could have heard the answering cry.
Why, I said, what was ever great in a short time? The whole period of threescore years and ten is surely but a little thing in comparison with eternity? Say rather 'nothing,' he replied.
And though he is past the threescore years and ten, he looks out over his people with eyes that still have the veritable look of youth.
What a tedious uncomfortable day have we had of it! We were told it was but forty miles across the country, and we have come above threescore.
And to the girl who stood panting beside him, “Polly, give Mis’ McChesney some salt.” Polly Ann did, and generously,--the salt they had carried with so much labor threescore and ten miles from the settlements.
Quotes with THREESCORE (3)
And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten — since, in either case, other men and women will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably. Still, somehow this line of thought wasn't as consoling as it should have been; the idea of all those years of life in hand was a galling reminder!
True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.
The short space of threescore years can never content the imagination of man; nor can the imperfect joys of this world satisfy his heart. Man alone, of all created beings, displays a natural contempt of existence, and yet a boundless desire to exist; he scorns life, but he dreads annihilation. These different feelings incessantly urged his soul to the contemplation of a future state, and religion directs his musings thither. Religion, then, is simply another form of hope; and…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2006).