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- noun Obsolete spelling of
twenty . (20)
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Examples
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Samlet or Skegger Trout (in both which places I have caught twentie or fortie at a standing) that will bite as fast and as freely as Minnows; these be by some taken to be young Salmons, but in those waters they never grow to bee bigger then a Herring.
The Compleat Angler 2007
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And you are further to know, that there be certaine waters that breed Trouts remarkable, both for their number and smalness — I know a little Brook in Kent that breeds them to a number incredible, and you may take them twentie or fortie in an hour, but none greater then about the size of a
The Compleat Angler 2007
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From fiue yeres olde, to twentie and fowre, thei learne to ride, to throwe the Darte, to shoote, and chiefly to haue a tongue voide of all vntruthe.
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Katherine the virgine, the fiue and twentie of Nouembre, and Marie
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And the vii. and twentie of thesame moneth for Ihon the
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And the eight and twentie of Octobre, for Simon and Iude.
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From twentie, till fiuetie: thei folowe the warres.
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The one and twentie of Decembre, for saincte Thomas.
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In Iewrie, of a Virgine, of the stocke of Dauid, a thousande fiue hundred, and twentie yeres gone37.
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And the thre and twentie of Aprille, for saincte George.
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