Where was it then For Israel, or for David, or his throne, When thou stood'st up his tempter to the pride Of numbering Israel--which cost the lives of
threescore and ten thousand Israelites By three days' pestilence?
Paradise Regained
"Samuel Adams died in 1803, at the age of above
threescore and ten. He was a great patriot, but a poor man.
Grandfathers Chair
Oberman died in April 2001, he had reached the biblical age of
threescore and ten, but by no means the end of his scholarly vitality and insight.
The Two Reformations: The Journey from the Last Days to the New World
Growing to almost 2 feet long, tuatara live at least the biblical
threescore and ten years, and probably a century or more.
Return of the tuatara: a relict from the age of dinosaurs gets a human assist
Tough questions, but they do not seem to bother that hickory-skinned, eternal leprechaun Merce Cunningham, who achieved on April 16 the unlikely milestone birthday of
threescore and ten plus five.
Merce Cunningham at 75
And Captain Carpenter parted with his ears To a black devil that used him in this wise O Jesus ere his
threescore and ten years Another had plucked out his sweet blue eyes.
Captain Carpenter