He was young, not more than five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his strength of mind to control. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He hath an army of women, smiters with swords and lungers with lances, five-and-twenty thousand in number, each of whom, whenas she mounteth steed and donneth battle-gear, eveneth a thousand knights of the bravest. ❋ Unknown (2006)
They chose of them such as could carry all the gear they had prepared; amongst the rest five-and-twenty chests of gold and fifty of silver; and, mounting ❋ Unknown (2006)
“Some five-and-twenty or thirty,” said Donald, “his ordinary retinue.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
Then they made at Gharib to seize him; but he smote one of them with his fist and slew him, and so did he with another and yet another, till he had slain five-and-twenty of them and the rest fled and went in to Queen Jan Shah, shrieking loudly. ❋ Unknown (2006)
So they dismounted down and sought for an entrance, but saw none neither found any trace of opening in the walls, albeit there were five-and-twenty portals to the city, but none of them was visible from without. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Venus, temperate and favourable, abideth in each sign five-and-twenty days. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Then quoth the Emir, “O Shaykh, I see to this city no sign of any gate;” and quoth he, “O Emir, thus is it described in my Book of Hidden Treasures; it hath five-and-twenty portals; but none thereof may be opened save from within the city.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
Nor am I, believe me, so arrogant as to suppose that in five-and-twenty years there have been no changes in me, and that I had nothing to learn and no extreme impressions to correct when I was here first. ❋ Unknown (2007)
At five-and-twenty I did not trust myself; but I took a manful resolution. ❋ Unknown (2007)
On the day appointed, instead of five-and-twenty thousand men, under the command of Sir John Oldcastle, in the meadows of St. Giles, the King found only eighty men, and no Sir John at all. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I know the name of every man who has been out on an affair of honour within the last five-and-twenty years; I know the private particulars of every cross and squabble that has taken place upon the turf, at the gaming-table, or elsewhere, during the whole of that time. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The dull tyrant, upon this, punished Mr. Hough, and five-and-twenty more, by causing them to be expelled and declared incapable of holding any church preferment; then he proceeded to what he supposed to be his highest step, but to what was, in fact, his last plunge head-foremost in his tumble off his throne. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Sidney was the hero of Europe at five-and-twenty; and why not they? ❋ Unknown (2007)
This pocket-book contained notes to the amount of one hundred and fifty dollars; and the next day a reward of five-and-twenty was offered to the finder of them. ❋ Unknown (2007)
She could remember among them, five-and-twenty years ago, the burning of poor blind Joan ❋ Unknown (2007)
The speaker was a tall and slim young man, some five-and-twenty years old, of so rare and delicate a beauty, that it seemed that some Greek statue, or rather one of those pensive and pious knights whom the old German artists took delight to paint, had condescended to tread awhile this work-day earth in living flesh and blood. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Syracusan vessels, five-and-twenty in number, coasting along from ❋ Unknown (2007)
Chersonese as their base, and proceeded to blockade him and his fleet of five-and-twenty vessels with the two-and-thirty vessels under their joint command. ❋ Unknown (2007)
