seven-and-twenty

I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.

The Road Not Taken · Pride & Prejudice & Zombies 2009

And indeed as you shall know, I had slept not for seven-and-twenty hours, and had scarce ceased to labour in all that time.

The Night Land 2007

Mademoiselle Clotilde Frederique, at this time seven-and-twenty years of age, was deeply in love with Lucien de Rubempre.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

Rhodes, at the head now of seven-and-twenty vessels.

Hellenica 2007

With the exception of this poor place, there is not a cottage on the banks of the lake, or near it (for nobody dare sleep there); not a boat upon its waters; not a stick or stake to break the dismal monotony of seven-and-twenty watery miles.

Pictures from Italy 2007

The daughter, a big, heavy young woman of seven-and-twenty, was supposed to be a good performer on the piano, and her mother praised her in season and out of season in the clumsiest way.

Two Poets 2007

This young person was evidently more than seven-and-twenty.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

The daughter, a big, heavy young woman of seven-and-twenty, was supposed to be a good performer on the piano, and her mother praised her in season and out of season in the clumsiest way.

Two Poets 2007

The Count protested to him that the King would be charmed to know him; and added, that one of his operas (for it must be told that our little friend was a vaudeville-maker by trade) had been acted seven-and-twenty times at the theatre at Potsdam.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

British parent that a bad marriage with its aversions is better than free womanhood with its interests, dignity, and leisure, she had consented to marry the elderly wine-merchant as a pis aller, at the age of seven-and-twenty — some three years before this date — to find afterwards that she had made a mistake.

Life's Little Ironies 2006