one-and-twenty

In German, 21 is einundzwanzig, or one-and-twenty, 22 is zweiundzwanzig, or two-and-twenty; and this continues with the unit value preceding the tens value all the way up to 99.

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

In German, 21 is einundzwanzig, or one-and-twenty, 22 is zweiundzwanzig, or two-and-twenty; and this continues with the unit value preceding the tens value all the way up to 99.

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

In German, 21 is einundzwanzig, or one-and-twenty, 22 is zweiundzwanzig, or two-and-twenty; and this continues with the unit value preceding the tens value all the way up to 99.

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

“Almighty Allah upon the rebel, the traitor, the infidel!” and he slew in a single charge one-and-twenty fighting-men.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

She was graced with a complexion not common in her country, a profusion of fair hair, and features so extremely juvenile as to make her look several years younger than she really was, though in reality she was not above one-and-twenty.

The Talisman 2008

Then he commanded his Wazirs to write letters to all his Nabobs and vassals, and he indited one-and-twenty writs and despatched them to the governors, who assembled their troops and set out for Cufa by forced marches. —

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

So many girls want establishments, that a man of sixty can just as easily get a wife of eighteen, as a man of one-and-twenty.

Camilla 2008

So she brought forward the wine and they drank together, after which she took the lute and tuning the strings, preluded in one-and-twenty modes, then returning to the first, played a lively measure and sang these couplets,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Then he bade pull down the Pied Palace and divided the spoil with the true-believing Jinn, and there fell to his share one-and-twenty thousand bricks of gold and silver and money and treasure beyond speech and count.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Because the sea could not rise fifteen cubits, or one-and-twenty standard feet and a half, above the highest mountains, without leaving its bed dry, and, at the same time, violating all the laws of gravity and the equilibrium of fluids, which would evidently require a miracle.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007