I have known a woman to go on wearing pink organdie after she has passed forty, and I have known a woman to go on caring for a man who, she knew, wasn't worth caring for, long after he had forgotten.

For now, as we neared the 'roaring forties,' there fell on us a gale from the north-west, and would not cease.

Cournet let them get away, and then, pulling the check string, stopped the fiacre, got down leisurely, reclosed the door, quietly took forty sous from his purse, gave them to the coachman, who had not left his seat, and said to him, "Drive on.

The six sons of the first settler had married women of the district, and the numbers of grandchildren and great-grandchildren already exceeded forty, but the island maintained them all.

It has one hundred and three sonnets, not counting another forty she afterwards sent on paper from Viterbo.

Subdivide a section into forties, and describe each forty.

He lived at Brussels, and died there aged forty, and the same year he was followed to his grave by his musically named Joanna Gavadia, who knew music well, and who, let us still hope, died of a broken heart.

Only two days out of every six Coupeau would stop on the way, drink the forty sous with a friend, and return home to lunch with some grand story or other.

He never looks to his father; his father does not believe in allowing his sons to look to him; so in the terrible time of '57, when the loss and the worry came, he had to struggle as long as he could, and then go down with the rest, paying sixty cents on the dollar of all his debts, and beginning again, to try and earn the forty, and to feed and clothe his family meanwhile.

Men do not blossom forth as wits, humourists, masterly delineators of character, and skilful performers on a highly-strung and carefully-tuned sentimental instrument all at once, after entering their "forties;" and the only wonder is that a possessor of these powerssome of them of the kind which, as a rule, and in most men, seeks almost as irresistibly for exercise as even the poetic instinct itselfshould have been held so long unemployed.

[760]Fabatus, an Italian, holds seafaring men all mad; "the ship is mad, for it never stands still; the mariners are mad, to expose themselves to such imminent dangers: the waters are raging mad, in perpetual motion: the winds are as mad as the rest, they know not whence they come, whither they would go: and those men are maddest of all that go to sea; for one fool at home, they find forty abroad."

We managed, by instituting a house-to-house visitation, to collect some twenty spades of sorts, and with those supplied by the troops, we got altogether some forty, which were handed over to Gough.

I joyfully assented to so pleasant a proposition, and, "hitching a three-forty before a light waggon"as the term is in Americawe were soon bowling away merrily along a capital road.

Two winters ago I killed forty and I did not make a business of it at that.

Beth reflected that she looked a belated forty; that she had lost her charm for the eye of Jim Framtree, who had treated her like a relative.

Eight more senators will be appointed by the Governor, making forty in all.

This class numbered forty, and included the two convicted of female violation.

Out of that ninety I plant forty.

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

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

He said that if a train could run forty-five miles an hour in the East it could run forty on that road.

It was breakfast, and we opened the dome; we seated forty in the dome and twenty in the meridian-room.

I rushed back into the car, grabbed an armful, and sold forty there.

They confined these separately, and they set at liberty one by one the forty who remained.

I struck forty!