Four-and-twenty Sentence Examples

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  • Then he beholds the Almighty on His throne surrounded by the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures.

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  • The four and twenty years of Sigismund II.'s reign was a critical period of Polish history.

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  • For Example, If We Observe The Line B In Table Iii., We Shall See That It Contains Both The Epacts Twenty Four And Twenty Five, So That If These Correspond To The Same Day Of The Month, Two New Moons Would Be Indicated As Happening On That Day Within Nineteen Years.

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  • When he was four-and-twenty he determined to seek his fortunes abroad, and made his way to Turkey, where, after practising medicine on his own account for a short time, he was appointed (in 1865) quarantine medical officer at Antivari.

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  • Before he was four-and-twenty he had stood two contested elections for the university of Cambridge, at which he was defeated, and he entered parliament for a pocketborough, Newtown, Isle of Wight, in June 1807.

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  • The mosaic representing Christ surrounded by the four-and-twenty elders," which originally lined the cupola, had almost entirely perished by the 19th century, but was restored in 1882 from a copy made in the 17th century.

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  • It placed the general government, he said, in the absurd position of a "servant of four-and-twenty masters, of different wills and different purposes, and yet bound to obey all."

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  • This was certainly one of the most astonishing revelations of finished genius ever produced by a young man of less than four-and-twenty.

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  • The counties are also required to levy special school taxes, the aggregate annual amount of which shall be equivalent to at least seven dollars for every child between the ages of four and twenty years.

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  • Beyond twenty it is usually, but not always, observed; we sometimes instead of twenty-four say four and twenty.

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