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forty

/ˈfoɹti/ adjective C2
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a fort.
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I take it for granted that since dawn every constable within forty miles has been looking out for a wet stranger?”
The Valley of Fear, p. 45 · C1
He is a man of forty, married, with five children.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 10 · B2
There were forty wolves, and forty times a wolf was killed, so that at last they all lay dead in a heap before the Woodman.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 79 · B2
“But,” cried Dantès, “it was a hundred and forty francs I owed Caderousse.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 14 · C1

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