17 adjectives to describe forties

You wish to add one more language to the forty odd that are spoken in the islands, so that you may understand one another less and less.

The mad forties.

Giovanni died in 1429, leaving one son, Cosimo, aged forty, a second, Lorenzo, aged thirtyfour, a fragrant memory and an immense fortune.

Fabulous forties.

Sarah was half-way through high school when her brother Benjamin was born and for two years after she graduated, her mother's ill health, the familiar breakdown of the middle forties, kept her at home.

They only recognize the forty sous of their day's work.

" It sounds bombastic, but in those feudal forties it rang more magnificent than war.

The bold lyric and dramatic poesy of a language whose figures well up in each word with primitive freshness can ill be contained in an idiom blasé by conventionality and frozen into crystal rigidity by the academy of the illustrious forty,in an idiom in which an unfortunate pun or allusion can destroy the effect of a whole piece.

There may have been a too eager tone; but to be eager is not a very bad vice at any age under the critical forty.

See that mower going down there in the south forty?

"Dey were a heap o' talk 'bout de Yankees a-givin' ever' Nigger forty acres an' a mule.

But bare forty, and he fifty-one: Fifteen, and five for the point, twenty, and three by aces, twenty-three; well, I am to play first: one, twenty-three; two, twenty-three; three, twenty-three; four, twenty-three;Pox on't, now I must play into his hand: five:now you take it, Jack;five, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, and the cards forty.

Only Lady Cecilia and Mrs. Vavaseur behaved like you; but then they are both quite oldover forty.

Perhaps because he had reached the perilous forties he had suddenly determined to abandon the safe highway and seek adventure in miry bypaths.

The beginning of the distressful 'forties eased the market so that the town of Milledgeville could get its street gang on a scale of $125; at the middle of the decade slaveowners were willing to take almost any wages offered; and in its final year the Georgia Railroad paid only $70 to $75 for section hands.

He was in his early forties, medium-sized, balding, energetic.

The exact quotations number only fifteen, the slightly variant thirty-seven, and the markedly variant forty.

17 adjectives to describe  forties