Four-and-twenty
"Four-and-twenty" in a Sentence (4 examples)
Ouer the firſt companie the firſt month Ieſboam was chiefe the ſonne of Zabdiel, and vnder him foure and twentie thouſand.
Sing a Song of Sixpence, / A bag full of Rye, / Four and twenty Naughty Boys,/ Baked in a Pye.
"He was four-and-twenty the 8th of last June,[...]"
Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.
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