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Sevenscore

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Sev´en`score`
n. & a.1.Seven times twenty, that is, a hundred and forty.
The old Countess of Desmond . . . lived sevenscore years.
- Bacon.


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The band had been increased from time to time by picked men such as Arthur-a-Bland and David of Doncaster--he who was the jolliest cobbler for miles around--until it now numbered a full sevenscore of men; seven companies each with its stout lieutenant serving under Robin Hood.
No archer ever lived that could speed a gray goose shaft with such skill and cunning as his, nor were there ever such yeomen as the sevenscore merry men that roamed with him through the greenwood shades.
 
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