Read full poem →The son of woman turns his brow
West from forty countries now,
And, as the edge of heaven he eyes,
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A bottle of beer containing forty fluid ounces.
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Poetry examples for “forty”
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Read full poem →Language, which Boreas might to Auster hold
More rough than forty Germans when they scold.
Read full poem →Coming of Arthur, The Holy Grail, Pelleas and Kttare, and
The Passing of Arthur, of which forty thousand copies were
ordered in advance; in December, 1871, in The Contemporary
Read full poem →good to see the fume come forth out at’s tonnels !
Well, he owes me forty shillings, my wife lent him
out of her purse bv six-pence a time, besides his
Read full poem →** theatre in some open field, having the diameters of
“ its inclosed plain some forty or fifty feet. The
“ country-people £ock from all sides many miles off,
Read full poem →the part of Betterton. He had now been upon the
stage between forty and fifty years, and found the in-
firmities of age beginning to make inroads upon his
Read full poem →During interviews with some forty persons more or
less expert on the question the lowest estimate of the
Read full poem →The phantom of an old workhorse taking the steel point
of a plow across a forty-acre field in spring, hitched
to a harrow in summer, hitched to a wagon among
Read full poem →Dewey in co-operation with the land forces under Gen-
eral Merritt. After a fierce battle in which forty Amer-
icans were killed, the city surrendered. The hand of
Read full poem →posed by former President Taft of his own party
and which was assured of the support of forty
Democratic Senators. Senator Lodge knew that
