" It is, perhaps, needless to mention, that forty was the number of the French academy, at the time when their dictionary was published to settle their language.

Forty is the very season of ripeness,the very meridian of manly lustre and splendor.

Not forty, but nearer four hundred years, doubtless, was that pile in building.

"Forty and six years was this temple in building.

The gain of this expedition amounted to sixty thousand pounds, of which forty were the share of the adventurers who fitted out the ships, and the rest, distributed among the several crews, amounted to six pounds each man.

The conditions are so exacting that few native Hindus are willing to accept them, and of the 1,067 men whose names were on the active and retired lists on the 31st of December, 1902, only forty were natives of India.

" "Why, Lisa, Aunt Lilian's over forty, and he's twenty-nine!" "Forty isn't the end of the world for a woman, nowadays.

He tried to steal past; forty against one were heavy odds.

"About forty," was the reply, "and all Khost men save seven, of whom four are Afghans of Cabul, two are Punjabis, and one a Sikh.

Forty-four per cent of the women teachers in the public schools of New York have been more than ten years in the service, while only twenty-six per cent of the men teachers have served as long.

But of ninety English towns, forty had been the scene of fire and slaughter, and twelve had been destroyed utterly.