Citations : four-and-twenty
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Douay-Rheims Bible. 1 Chronicals Ch.27 v.2
Over the first company the first month Jesboam, the son of Zabdiel was chief, and under him were four and twenty thousand.
1744 , Sing a Song of Sixpence , in Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book (earliest known written version)
Sing a Song of Sixpence, / A bag full of Rye, / Four and twenty Naughty Boys,/ Baked in a Pye.
1851 , John Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States , p 496
..., a powder horn, a pound of powder, twelve flints, four-and-twenty balls of lead, a cartridge box, ...
1883 , Charles Dickens, The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby , p 44
When he blew this bugle, four-and-twenty other gentlemen of inferior rank, ..., turned out directly.
1922 , A. E. Housman , Last Poems , XII, The Deserter , lines 13, 15-16
Oh love is rare and trouble plenty
And daylight dear at four-and-twenty :
Lie down again and sleep.
Monday June 20, 2005 , The Guardian newspaper
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.