War and Peace vocabulary

You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We’re destroying words—scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone.

George Orwell. 1984 (1949)

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"A score or so of years ago, that woman was tried at the Old Bailey for murder,

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)

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there were oh, maybe ten score of men come then—when old Jacob died, ye ken,

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She saw herself the object of attention, to tens and to scores of them at present unknown.

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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Dave and Sol-leks, dripping blood from a score of wounds, were fighting bravely side by side.

Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)

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We had, first and last, killed about threescore of them, and had it been daylight we had killed many more. The field of battle being thus cleared, we made forward again, for we had still near a league to go. We heard the ravenous creatures howl and yell in the woods as we went several times, and sometimes we fancied we saw some of them;

Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe

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They live generally to seventy, or seventy-five years, very seldom to fourscore. Some weeks before their death, they feel a gradual decay; but without pain.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)