Nevertheless, the Lord has been gracious; for my days have already reached threescore-and-ten.

When I knew him, his years must have considerably exceeded threescore; but his good-natured face was as ruddy as health could make it; his hair, though mingled with grey, was as thick and strong as if he had been but twenty; his person was still muscular and active; and, moreover, he yet retained, in all their freshness, the feelings of his youth, and no small portion of the simplicity of his childhood.

In this country was the best whale-fishing that Ohthere had ever seen, the whales being so numerous, that he was one of six who killed threescore in three days[10].

He had seen his threescore and ten years; and was fast falling into the "sere and yellow leaf.

Now that he was so sure of beating threescore and ten, while retaining the full possession of his faculties, if he followed the rules of longevity, he would not have welcomed a son who could spring into the saddle at once.

Age seems to have no more dulling effect on you than it had on Sir David Brewster, who retained, after he had turned the threescore and ten, all the greenery, foliage, and flowers of youthpresenting at once the freshness of Spring, and the flowers of Summer, and the precious fruits of Autumn.

The unfortunate Caraccioli, as has been said, had nearly numbered his threescore and ten years, in the regular course of nature; and his bare head now showed the traces of time.

We pass a scoretwoscore, threescore, perhapsof happy parties, soldiers again, a bourgeois family of three generations, the old grandmother with a mushroom-hat tied over her capsoldiers and Fräuleins coketteering.