two-and-thirty love

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  • The face is furnished with an upper jaw of eleven bones and a lower jaw of one; and to these are added the teeth two-and-thirty in number, and the os hyoides. 396 The trunk is divided into spinal column, breast and basin.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The girl took the bag from him and opening it shook it, whereupon there fell thereout two-and-thirty pieces of wood, which she fitted one into other, male into female and female into male428 till they became a polished lute of Indian workmanship.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Granville, by insensible degrees, overdone with work, bereft of conjugal consolations, and weary of a world in which he wandered alone, by the time he was two-and-thirty had sunk into the Slough of Despond.

    A Second Home 2007

  • Chersonese as their base, and proceeded to blockade him and his fleet of five-and-twenty vessels with the two-and-thirty vessels under their joint command.

    Hellenica 2007

  • AT two-and-thirty years of age, JOHN became King of England.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • Trottle (whom I always call my right hand) has been in my service two-and-thirty years.

    A House to Let 2007

  • Granville, by insensible degrees, overdone with work, bereft of conjugal consolations, and weary of a world in which he wandered alone, by the time he was two-and-thirty had sunk into the Slough of Despond.

    A Second Home 2007

  • For instance, when Doublequits left the Fleet, he was received with open arms by his family, and had two-and-thirty horses in his stables before a week was over.

    Mens Wives 2006

  • The beating rain has washed the bones clean and smooth, and the forehead, cheek-bones, and two-and-thirty teeth of the skull glisten in the candle-shine as they lie.

    A Changed Man 2006

  • “But two, sir, at least so Peggy told me, and she would just as soon have blabbed about the whole two-and-thirty — the rest are as sound as yours, which are beautiful.”

    The Virginians 2006

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