38 examples of seventieth in sentences

Three years later, when the author had entered her seventieth year, she wrote an Essay on the Character and Writings of St. Paul, in two volumes, which, notwithstanding absorbing political events, was received with the same eagerness which greeted her former works.

Her final release from all earthly trials and sorrows took place on June 9, 1717, when she had entered about three months into her seventieth year.

She went to the land where time is no more, in her seventieth year, just reaching the allotted term of life, as she had certainly in no ordinary degree performed its allotted work.

XXIII AND Mathieu and Marianne lived more than a score of years longer, and Mathieu was ninety years old and Marianne eighty-seven, when their three eldest sons, Denis, Ambroise, and Gervais, ever erect beside them, planned that they would celebrate their diamond wedding, the seventieth anniversary of their marriage, by a fete at which they would assemble all the members of the family at Chantebled.

"Psalm cxlviii. {161} This was the opinion of Anaxagoras, one of the Ionic philosophers, born at Clazomene, in the first year of the seventieth Olympiad.

One other person formed part of the family, without being connected with it by relationshipa woman who seemed at first sight to have reached her seventieth year, so slow and difficult were her movements.

He died of a loathsome and excruciating disease, in his seventieth year, having reigned nearly forty years.

When he had entered his seventieth year, Hurd, who had been his first friend, and the faithful monitor of his studies from youth, confined him "to a sonnet once a year, or so;" warning him, that "age, like infancy, should forbear to play with pointed tools."

While still in his seventieth year, Michelangelo had educated himself to meditate upon the thought of death as a prophylactic against vain distractions and the passion of love.

It was here Commodore John Montgomery landed from the "Portsmouth" and raised the Stars and Stripes on July 4, 1846, almost the seventieth anniversary of the establishment of the Spanish Presidio.

He was ready to make a present of them to any one who would father them, he allowed his life to slip by until his seventieth year was reached, before he would print them, and when they appeared, he could not find the courage to put his name on the title-page.

Eight years later he was preparing the Index, and at last, in the autumn of 1789, the volume positively made its appearance, in the maiden author's seventieth year.

* "Canon Cooper O'Filley, known as the 'Walking Parson,' has decided to celebrate his seventieth birthday by walking from Yorkshire to Madrid."Sunday Paper.

Essays in honor of John Dewey on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, October 20, 1929.

Essays in honor of John Dewey on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, October 20, 1929.

Nature and mind, selected essays of Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, presented to him on the occasion of his seventieth birthday by Amherst College, the University of Minnesota, Columbia University; with a bibliography of his writings.

The last weekbefore I reach my seventieth year.

My suffrage sons and daughters through all the Northern and Western States decided to celebrate, on the 12th of November, 1885, my seventieth birthday, by holding meetings or sending me gifts and congratulations.

and I went on to Washington to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Miss Anthony, who has always been to them as a second mother.

Let this serve for a Preface to a Relation I am going to give you of an old Beau in Town, that has not only been amorous, and a Follower of Women in general, but also, in Spite of the Admonition of grey Hairs, been from his sixty-third Year to his present seventieth, in an actual Pursuit of a young Lady, the Wife of his Friend, and a Man of Merit.

The occasion was a reception given in her honor by one of her clubs on her seventieth birthday.

I had a wonderful celebration on my seventieth birthday in December; poems written, cakes with seventy candles sent, and a great spontaneous gathering in my honor, which really bothered me not a little, for I do not pose worth a cent, and do not know where to look or what to do when people compliment me.

Down to her seventieth year she had never found it absurd to beseech God to make her "a good girl"; nor did she find it so as the Workhouse gate opened, and she began a new life.

[SEAL.] Done at the city of Washington, this 17th day of January, A.D. 1846, and of the Independence of the United States of America the seventieth.

[SEAL.] Done at the city of Washington, the 13th day of May, A.D. 1846, of the Independence of the United States the seventieth.

38 examples of  seventieth  in sentences