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three-and-twenty

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  • It's a lot easier to get punched in the face at three-and-twenty than to have your bum strapped in public at sixteen.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Bystander 2009

  • Sir, You are represented in the newspapers as having entered, during an important discussion in Parliament, into a comparison between certain passages in the Quarterly Review, and the opinions which were held by the author of Wat Tyler three-and-twenty years ago ....

    Historical Documentation Concerning the Radical Piracy of _Wat Tyler_ 2007

  • I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.

    Horrible Boys Bystander 2009

  • Tylerwhich is, that I wrote it three-and-twenty years ago.

    Historical Documentation Concerning the Radical Piracy of _Wat Tyler_ 2007

  • Many young men declare they intend to die bachelors, why may not I be permitted to commence old maid at three-and-twenty? —

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • Then he taught me the tenets of Al – Islam and the canons of prayer and the way of worship, together with the recital of the Koran, and I have now worshipped Allah in this place three-and-twenty years.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The royal shuttlecock being three-and-twenty, the battledores were very anxious to get him married.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • ALFRED THE GREAT was a young man, three-and-twenty years of age, when he became king.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • For — as all must out — in that bark of Lima he took a young lady, as fair as the sunshine, sir, and seemingly about two or three-and-twenty years of age, having with her a tall young lad of sixteen, and a little girl, a marvellously pretty child, of about a six or seven.

    Westward Ho! 2007

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