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• An hour and twenty minutes! (10)
• Isobel was then one and twenty. (4)
• We placed them at twenty paces. (8)
• And all that was twenty years ago! (12)
• Certainly Mrs. Doria was equal to twenty. (10)
• So you ran to make yourself twenty to two? (10)
• Perhaps it might cost a whole twenty pounds. (4)
• Five and twenty thousand pounds was the amount. (10)
• Parks is earning a good twenty thousand a year. (13)
• Do, like a good fellow, toss us off twenty lines. (10)
• We can get there in twenty minutes if we shove along. (8)
• When I told him it had cost me twenty, his jaw dropped. (2)
• Twenty years and more since he had been in such a place. (8)
• But I suppose two are as rightfully several as twenty are. (9)
• His master had fixed his arrival for twenty minutes earlier. (10)
• Say twenty good jokes, and two or three of a practical kind. (10)
• He must have been twenty minutes there before a cry roused him. (8)
• I have found it since I laboured amongst them, now twenty years. (10)
• No wonder, at seventy-two, after twenty years of a third marriage! (8)
• And now, at nearly midnight, it was still less than twenty minutes long. (8)
• If it were two, or twenty, thousand pounds, it would be the same to me. (10)
• If it were two, or twenty, thousand pounds, it would be the same to me. (22)
• The twenty days of exploit had been most eventful and full of activities. (18)
• They left hundreds of corpses within twenty paces of the Confederate line. (7)
• Its width in the direction that I was going I judged to be about twenty miles. (7)
• There may be twenty Willis Campbells in San Francisco, and there probably are. (9)
• There, it is twenty minutes after twelve, and now I shall give it up entirely. (4)
• She was a gentle soul, married to a socialistic plumber twenty years her senior. (8)
• Silver and gold I pocket in plenty, But the sweet tit-bit is my lass under twenty. (10)
• Before he was twenty he was learning outpost duty in the Austrian frontier cavalry. (10)
• It had consisted of twenty or thirty nickel coins, which were now scattered in the mud. (12)
• A glance at the mantel-piece clock told him Laetitia was twenty minutes behind the hour. (10)
• He seems a nice lad of about two and twenty, mad for literature; and he must have talent. (10)
• Five, fifty-four, seven, five, twenty-eight, twenty, ninety, eleven, fifty-two, seventy-one. (8)
• With a cheer they sprang forward over the twenty or thirty paces between them and their task. (1)
• Twenty minutes later, he was turning through the scrolled iron gates into the road for London. (8)
• He knows there must have been twenty better men than himself applying for her at the same time. (4)
• No one had laid up a competence for Mr. Purcey, who had been in business from the age of twenty. (8)
• During the night she would make twenty demands and then reverse them with embittered impatience. (12)
• I am of the age of eight and twenty; passable, to look at: yes, my dear, I have gone through it. (10)
• Now, as Rabesqurat came scudding by, and saw the encounter, she made the twenty hawks a hundred. (10)
• They had not gone twenty steps up Southampton Row before Alan and Sheila were forty steps in front. (8)
• I think this is true of Feltham, though it be now more than twenty years since I have looked into him. (14)
• About twenty yards ahead the curricle was halted and turned about to see the extent of the mischief done. (10)
• He then informed him that he certainly should call him so, and would not object to call him so twenty times. (10)
• If I were to put you in the way of securing twenty thousand pounds sterling, would you accept the proposition? (18)
• He had nursed her greatly embarrassed inheritance very carefully till it amounted to some twenty thousand pounds. (8)
• In those days he liked Mrs. Vostrand very much, and at twenty he considered her at thirty distinctly middle-aged. (9)
• The words of this last are one to twenty; his mind is bent upon the causes of events rather than their progress. (10)
• The old man locked his door, and had the boxes that had stood packed for twenty years gotten into final readiness. (12)
• On that day I took him to club, where he saw many old friends (he has not been here for twenty years, poor fellow!) (14)
• She wished him very well; but he gave her pain, and his welfare twenty miles off would administer most satisfaction. (4)
• It was not four and twenty hours ago since they had met there to the same repast, but in circumstances how different! (4)
• Suddenly his head nods; he fights his drowsiness; writes a word or two, nods again, and in twenty seconds is asleep.] (8)
• Intelligent men have been walking here daily for ten or twenty years without a rag of business or a shilling of reward. (2)
• Again, also, as twenty years ago, the Cumberland people seemed more American in look and manner than other English folk. (14)
• We shall lose the toil of two centuries and the sacrifices of twenty generations of Englishmen in colonizing a wilderness. (18)
• She would live fifteen or twenty years after he was gone, and might spend a lot of money; she had always had extravagant tastes. (8)
• She was not convinced of its being good for them by hearing that they could work on it sixteen hours out of the four and twenty. (10)
• Farmer Fleming asked not for any life of ease and splendour, though thirty thousand pounds was a fortune; or even twenty thousand. (10)
• The article, which occupied just a column of precious space, began with an appeal so moving that before he had read twenty lines Mr. (8)
• But it was so costly, when finished, that it could not be made for less than twenty thousand dollars, if the parts were made by hand. (9)
• Lady Middleton was not more than six or seven and twenty; her face was handsome, her figure tall and striking, and her address graceful. (4)
• Adjoining the much-restored church stands a small decagonal Byzantine baptistery, with circular interior not over twenty feet in diameter. (20)
• I myself can barely look back on those twenty years of amatory servility with a full comprehension of the part I have been playing in them. (10)
• The latter is Joachim Heinzen of Czernikauer Street, twenty years old, of evil reputation and apparently of not altogether responsible mind. (12)
• So the contest raged, Mrs. Chump being run clean through the soul twenty times, without touching the consciousness of that sensitive essence. (10)
• The sum of twenty shillings was handed to Algernon, after he had submitted to the indignity of going into a public-house, and writing his I.O.U. (10)
• The sum of twenty shillings was handed to Algernon, after he had submitted to the indignity of going into a public-house, and writing his I.O.U. (22)
• This territory embraces, generally, forty miles on the lines of all converging railroads and a distance of twenty miles in both directions from the tracks. (21)

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