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Examples
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Oh! why was I but three-and-thirty, and why did I not apply to you to make me eligible?
Albert Savarus 2007
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By what luck was the mother of a family, about three-and-thirty years of age, still the fashion?
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By what luck was the mother of a family, about three-and-thirty years of age, still the fashion?
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Joseph Lebas, who was now three-and-thirty, was aware of the obstacle which a difference of fifteen years placed between
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“And this woman is three-and-thirty,” said the doctor quickly.
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Oh! why was I but three-and-thirty, and why did I not apply to you to make me eligible?
Albert Savarus 2007
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“And this woman is three-and-thirty,” said the doctor quickly.
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Joseph Lebas, who was now three-and-thirty, was aware of the obstacle which a difference of fifteen years placed between
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One little phrase, some three-and-thirty lines back, perhaps the fair and suspicious reader has remarked: “Three days after his arrival, Harry was walking with,” etc. etc.
The Virginians 2006
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The enthusiast went to the Holy Land, from whence he returned to Spain, where he began to learn Latin and philosophy at three-and-thirty years old, so that no doubt but he made great progress in both.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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