Eir had already sent fivescore arrows, and she drew the last two from her quiver and buried them in a pair of icebrood. ❋ J. Robert King (2011)
The lodges were forsaken, and the fivescore or so members of the tribe gave tongue to their folk-chants in honor of their guest. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Single-handed against fivescore, girt by the Arctic winter, far from his own, he felt the prompting of his heritage, the desire to possess, the wild danger -- love, the thrill of battle, the power to conquer or to die. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The players deserted the other games, and the dancing-floor was forsaken, so that all stood at last, fivescore and more, in a compact and silent group, around the poker-table. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Selkirk, then through fivescore miles of dismal wilderness to ❋ Unknown (2010)
So journeyed this strangely assorted couple down to old Fort Selkirk, then through fivescore miles of dismal wilderness to Stuart River. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Single-handed against fivescore, girt by the Arctic winter, far from his own, he felt the prompting of his heritage. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But tradition makes him ‘keep yatt,’ as he says, up to fivescore years. — ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Flanking and behind us marched the giant batrachians, fivescore of them at least, black scale and crimson scale lustrous and gleaming in the rosaceous radiance; saucer eyes shining circles of phosphorescence green, purple, red; spurs clicking as they crouched along with a gait at once grotesque and formidable. ❋ Unknown (2004)
"You think that's deep enough down there to cover fivescore blades?" ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2000)
CXLI In the midafternoon of late fall, at least fivescore citizens of Cyad, and more than twoscore sailors and traders from the Hamorian and Spidlarian vessels tied at the stone piers of the harbor, line the walls that surround the maneuver grounds created by the Mirror Engineers. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2000)
And I brought back some trading records, along with fivescore cupridium blades - without lancer markings. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2000)
They'd already killed fivescore men, women, and children, and you know what they did to the girls and women in the hamlets they sacked before we got them. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2000)
The road itself is blocked by almost fivescore Jeranyi wearing grayish blue tunics-uniforms of sorts-and some bear long Hamorian blades. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2000)
