" "I called the other day upon a venerable friend and client, who is travelling the down hill of life quietly, and though with the present summer he will have accomplished his three score years and ten, his voice is as cheerful, and his heart as young, as they were decades ago, when his manhood was in the glory and strength of its prime.

Anxiety or excitement, fostered by over-keenness, usually results in a blank score-sheet.

PETERSON, C. S. Scoremaster, simplified baseball score book.

Along the road that leads to the football field hurried the sellers of rush cushions and badges, of score cards and pencils, of blue and crimson flags and cheap canes, of peanuts and sandwiches, of soda water and sarsaparilla, bent upon securing advantageous stands about the entrance.

A few score yards from this tree, grew, when we inhabited Alfoxden, one of the most remarkable beech-trees ever seen.

But Beltane shook his head: "I'm fain to see why they laugh," said he, and speaking, stole forward soft-footed amid the shadows; and so presently parting the leaves, looked down into an open dell or dingle full of the light of the rising moon; light that glinted upon the steel caps and hauberks of some score men, who leaned upon pike or gisarm about one who sat upon a fallen treeand Beltane saw that this was Giles the Bowman.

Nearer and nearer to the Yates goal line went the resisting besieged and the conquering besiegers, and the great black score-board announced but eight more minutes of the first half remaining.

She came swiftly toward the piano and stood the big flat quires of score paper on the rack.

For nearly two score miles this current, which eventually found its way into the Penobscot, wound through the leafless woods, past an occasional opening, where, perhaps, the humble cabin of some backwoodsman stood.

Then we gathered together five score men-slaves, and double as many women, and countless children, and we set fire and burned all the houses and lodges, and departed.

A few score generations ago all living things were in our ancestry.

But graver men answered them: 'Hear us, ye whose wisdom has discerned so much, and discern for us how a man may escape death when two score horsemen assail him with their swords, all of them sworn to kill him, and all of them sworn upon their country's gods; as often Welleran hath.

Score A run rules.

The "A.J." score keeping system.

In Gareth and Lynette the same poet says that Grareth was the son of Lot and Bellicent; but we are told a score times and more in the History of Prince Arthur, that he was the son of Margawse (Arthur's sister and Lot's wife, pt. i. 36).

For it had never been heard of before that a party of four-score knights should overcome in that way a party of eight-score knights, with three knights of the Round Table to champion them.

I've looked with care Through the Triennial,name not there,) This person, Richards, was offered then Eight score pounds, but would have ten; Nine, I think, was the sum he took, Not quite certain,but see the book.

["Did not some people arrive in the night?"]"Yes, God help ushalf a score priests, or twenty or thirty gentry."

Low score golf.

Rose then a sage old warrior; Was five-score winters old; Whose beard from chin to girdle Like one long snow-wreath roll'd: "At Yule-time in our chamber We sit in warmth and light, While cold and howling round us Lies the black land of Night.

"How now," cried Giles, "art in the doleful dumps forsooth on so blithe a morn, with two-score pack-horses heavy with bootyand Garthlaxton aflame yonder?

Close by, the two score sheep stood in a compact flock, with heads towards the panting dogs.

The scale of tillage might range from a few score acres to a thousand or two; the expanse of unused land need have no limit but those of the proprietor's purse and his speculative proclivity.

A peace was afterwards concluded between the Foreigners and the Gaels; and six score ounces of gold were given by the Foreigners to Ua Lochlain, and five score ounces of gold were paid by Diarmaid Ua Maelseaclain to Ruaidri Ua Concobar for West Meath."

"I might ha' married scores o' times if I'd liked," said Mr. Russell, with a satisfied air.