sweet-and-twenty

Supposing you settle down with an earthly bride say, a sweet-and-twenty one!

Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910

"Because I was a play-actor once," he shouted, "when I was a sweet-and-twenty youngling."

The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel 1898

At sweet-and-twenty it is so difficult to believe in the irrevocable!

Flaming June George de Horne Vaizey 1887

On every occasion of his return from those intermediate absences to which he had forced himself, he had perceived that she drooped, that she was dumbly at war with the barriers that shut her youth away from change and laughter, and the natural amusements, flatteries and courtings that wait, or should wait, on sweet-and-twenty.

Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II Humphry Ward 1885

'I only say it because you ask me to, sweet-and-twenty.

Thyrza George Gissing 1880

So come along, sweet-and-twenty, and help me pack my buskins. "

Hetty Wesley Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903