eight-and-twenty

Back from twice around the world he was, and from interminable junketings up and down on far stretches, home-coming to the wife he had not seen in eight-and-twenty months, and to the child he had never seen and that was already walking and talking.

THE SEA FARMER 2010

Mademoiselle Virginie, brought up, like her younger sister, under the domestic rule of her mother, had reached the age of eight-and-twenty.

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

The Massoretes have counted up such instances, and they amount to eight-and-twenty.

Theologico-Political Treatise 2007

The man was a young fellow of about eight-and-twenty, with a round face, fair flaxen hair, and rings in his ears; the female was a blooming buxom lass of about eighteen.

Archive 2005-08-14 Laban 2005

Similarly there are (besides those points we have noticed) eight-and-twenty hiatus left by the scribes.

Theologico-Political Treatise 2007

Mademoiselle Virginie, brought up, like her younger sister, under the domestic rule of her mother, had reached the age of eight-and-twenty.

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

At this climax of the chapter of accidents, the remaining eight-and-twenty vociferate to that degree, that a pack of wolves would be music to them!

Pictures from Italy 2007

Alfred Starling, an uncommonly agreeable young fellow of eight-and-twenty for whom I have the greatest liking, was in the Double

The Haunted House 2007

Peruvians, instead of buying food from foreigners, found no better expedient than that of amusing themselves every other day with the ladies without eating for eight-and-twenty successive years.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Alfred Starling, an uncommonly agreeable young fellow of eight-and-twenty for whom I have the greatest liking, was in the Double

The Haunted House 2007