Twenty-third

Today is Monday, the twenty-third of October.

The case might have been dealt leniently with, but the laws were more harshly administered thirty years ago than now, and on my twenty-third birthday I found myself chained as a felon with thirty-seven other convicts in 'tween-decks of the bark Gloria Scott, bound for Australia.

Today is the twenty-third of November twenty-sixteen.

Tom jumped to his death from the twenty-third story.

He was born on April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight.