and-twenty

Without going further with the speech of this young fellow of two - and-twenty, I think I have sufficiently indicated his philosophy of life and the underlying economic reason for it.

A MAN AND THE ABYSS 2010

It was when I first took John Spatter (who had been my clerk) into partnership, and when I was still a young man of not more than five - and-twenty, residing in the house of my uncle Chill, from whom I had considerable expectations, that I ventured to propose to Christiana.

The Poor Relation’s Story 2007

The huts of the Sambos, to the number of five - and-twenty, perhaps, were down by the beach to the left of the anchorage.

The Perils of Certain English Prisoners 2007

The huts of the Sambos, to the number of five - and-twenty, perhaps, were down by the beach to the left of the anchorage.

The Perils of Certain English Prisoners 2007

It was when I first took John Spatter (who had been my clerk) into partnership, and when I was still a young man of not more than five - and-twenty, residing in the house of my uncle Chill, from whom I had considerable expectations, that I ventured to propose to Christiana.

The Poor Relation’s Story 2007

Love is such a simple thing when we have only one - and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning.

Adam Bede 2004

N — — a young man of two - and-twenty, with a lively and rather contemptuous face, in a coat hanging open, a red silk shirt, and loose velvet pantaloons; he was playing with the ex-lieutenant,

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

"Gurapas are galleys," answered the galley slave, who was a young man of about four – and-twenty, and said he was a native of Piedrahita.

Don Quixote 2002

"Ho, officials of this house, high and low, great and small, make haste hither one and all, and print on Sancho's face four – and-twenty smacks, and give him twelve pinches and six pin thrusts in the back and arms; for upon this ceremony depends the restoration of Altisidora."

Don Quixote 2002

Jorgen's great things had happened in the course of the last four - and-twenty hours.

Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911