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Seventieth   Listen
adjective
Seventieth  adj.  
1.
Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age.
2.
Constituting or being one of seventy equal parts.





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"Seventieth" Quotes from Famous Books



... emotion. But all the way her lips were at work, and as she went she was praying a prayer. It was the only one she used night and morning, and she had never changed a word since she learned it as a chit of a child. 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 ...
— The Delectable Duchy • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... an over-ripe youth and such a youthful wife, sire! I shall be content if my heart remains young till my seventieth year, and has strength to love my king and rejoice in his fame; then, sire, I shall be aged and cold, and then it will be time for the sun of Provence to shine upon me and iny grave. When I am seventy years of age, your majesty ...
— Berlin and Sans-Souci • Louise Muhlbach
... striking personality of the successful charlatan, and must have been a man of considerable intellectual abilities and power of organization. His income is said by Lucian to have reached an enormous figure. He died of gangrene of the leg in his seventieth year. ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... Hawley at the seventieth annual dinner of the New England Society in the City of New York, December 22, 1875. The President, Isaac H. Bailey, said by way of introduction: "Gentlemen, I will now give you the tenth regular toast: ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various
... to concur in the sentiment. Consequently we have a flood of complimentary verses, assuring the great poets of their unaltered charm.[Footnote: See Swinburne, Age and Song, The Centenary of Landor, Statue of Victor Hugo; O. W. Holmes, Whittier's Eightieth Birthday, Bryant's Seventieth Birthday; E. E. Stedman, Ad Vatem; P. H. Hayne, To Longfellow; Richard Gilder, Jocoseria; M. F. Tupper, To the Poet of Memory; Edmund Gosse, To Lord Tennyson on his Eightieth Birthday; Alfred ...
— The Poet's Poet • Elizabeth Atkins


Words linked to "Seventieth" :   rank, hundred-and-seventieth, 70th, ordinal


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