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  • The Countess Brenhilda was now above six-and-twenty years old, with as much beauty as can well fall to the share of an Amazon.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • If France were divided into ten circuits, the magistracy might be reinstated by conferring its dignities on men of fortune; but with six-and-twenty circuits this is impossible.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • The judicious Dom Calmet values this sum at four hundred and forty-eight livres, six sous, nine deniers, according to the ancient calculation adopted at random, in which the silver mark was of six-and-twenty livres value.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • A young man — six-and-twenty — vigorously made, and well-shaped.

    Pictures from Italy 2007

  • The story of the deposit must be considered by every man of sense as equally false and ridiculous with that of the six-and-twenty journeys on foot.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Jenkinson, not the least of English travellers, had, in six-and-twenty years of travel in behalf of the Muscovite Company, penetrated into not merely Russia and the Levant, but Persia and

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • His young ardor recalled memories of the colonel of six-and-twenty;

    Two Poets 2007

  • She was about six-and-twenty, but had preserved all the freshness of youth from living in the tranquillity and abundance of a country life.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • His young ardor recalled memories of the colonel of six-and-twenty;

    Two Poets 2007

  • She was made to take pony-riding, or piano-exercise, or any other sort of bodily medicament, according as my Lady Southdown saw meet; and her ladyship would have kept her daughter in pinafores up to her present age of six-and-twenty, but that they were thrown off when

    Vanity Fair 2006

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