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four-and-thirty

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  • I may have gotten a lot saner about my weight and food, but now, apparently at the ripe old age of four-and-thirty, I'm dealing with this.

    Sunny Gold: We Don't Just Need A Body Image Revolution, We Need an 'Aging Image' One! 2010

  • I may have gotten a lot saner about my weight and food, but now, apparently at the ripe old age of four-and-thirty, I'm dealing with this.

    Sunny Gold: We Don't Just Need A Body Image Revolution, We Need an 'Aging Image' One! 2010

  • This diplomate, a man of four-and-thirty, who had been married about six years, was the living portrait of Lord Byron.

    Honorine 2007

  • This diplomate, a man of four-and-thirty, who had been married about six years, was the living portrait of Lord Byron.

    Honorine 2007

  • From Gaza to Azotus, Diodorus Siculus being witness, are two-hundred and seventy furlongs: which amount to four-and-thirty miles: namely, from Gaza to Ascalon, ten miles, and thence to Azotus four-and-twenty.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • The hyphen is used also when the words are inverted; as "four-and-thirty," "six-and-fortieth."

    "Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students Paul Allardyce

  • Five minutes later all were dead -- four-and-thirty of them -- and not one faintest cry of alarm or of agony had been uttered.

    Tales of Destiny Edmund Mitchell

  • The gentle hands that raised me in my dream and bore me heavenward, were not those of a far-off angel, as I understood the term, they were the strong brawny palms of a man of four-and-thirty years, not so strong that their touch could not be as gentle as a mother's own, not so brawny that they could not dry the tearful lids of a sleeping child without disturbing its repose.

    The Doctor's Daughter [pseud.] Vera

  • At the period in question, the plantations in that part of the country were very few and far between, but nevertheless by the afternoon of the next day we had got together four-and-thirty men, mounted on mustangs, each equipped with rifle and bowie-knife, powder-horn and bullet-bag, and furnished with provisions for several days.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

  • Four times, within a few years, have I been first centurion in the triarii; four-and-thirty times have I been rewarded for my courage by my commanders; I have received six civic crowns.

    The History of Rome, Vol. VI 1905

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