nine-and-twenty

So, nobody stayed with me in my new lodging at first after Trottle had established me there safe and sound, but Peggy Flobbins, my maid; a most affectionate and attached woman, who never was an object of Philandering since I have known her, and is not likely to begin to become so after nine-and-twenty years next

A House to Let 2007

What could a woman of nine-and-twenty be in comparison with a young girl of twenty, as lovely as imagination could wish for an ideal mistress?

Honorine 2007

What could a woman of nine-and-twenty be in comparison with a young girl of twenty, as lovely as imagination could wish for an ideal mistress?

Honorine 2007

I had been knocked about the world for nine-and-twenty years in all, when I stood looking along those bright blue South American Waters.

The Perils of Certain English Prisoners 2007

I had been knocked about the world for nine-and-twenty years in all, when I stood looking along those bright blue South American Waters.

The Perils of Certain English Prisoners 2007

Say how many there are, count up what they have done, and see what in the course of some nine-and-twenty years has been done by this indefatigable man.

George Cruikshank 2006

Did you not make over your house, your furniture, your emporium of perfumery, and nine-and-twenty shaving customers, to me?

Cox's Diary 2006

Did you not make over your house, your furniture, your emporium of perfumery, and nine-and-twenty shaving customers, to me?

Burlesques 2006

I do not expect that, at nineteen, you should have that knowledge of the world, those manners, that dexterity, which few people have at nine-and-twenty.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

The nine-and-twenty shields of the Scottish heroes were less independent and hardly more potent to withstand any attack that might be made on them.

Barchester Towers 2004