I had to restrain my impatience for some time, on account of
Twenty Seven being reserved for a concluding effect.
"My friends," said he, "it is
twenty minutes past ten.
He had three hundred pounds to find on the twenty-fourth of the month, and
twenty thousand pounds to find in February eighteen hundred and fifty.
About
twenty minutes he waited, and then a tall man in a long overcoat, with collar turned up to his ears, hurried across from the opposite side of the street.
Please put
twenty notes of a thousand francs each into this envelope, seal it with your own seal and hand it to Mme.
Planchet paid down in double louis,
twenty thousand livres to D'Artagnan, on the part of himself (Planchet), and
twenty thousand livres, still in double louis, in account with D'Artagnan.
Now they perceived that she was a true Princess, because she had felt the pea through the
twenty mattresses and the
twenty eider-down quilts.
Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess, since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the
twenty mattresses and
twenty feather beds.
de Treville, confiding to him candidly the importance of his departure, when the news was transmitted to him as well as to his three friends that the king was about to set out for Paris with an escort of
twenty Musketeers, and that they formed part of the escort.
"
Twenty guineas!" says Jones, in the utmost surprize: "sure you think I am mad, or that I never saw a sword in my life.
I suppose no boy of
twenty really loves a WOMEN, but loves only his etherealised extract of woman, entirely free from earthy adulteration.
"He is the only man," says Morgan, "who can raise
twenty millions in
twenty minutes." The Perkins plan of rapid transit telephony is to prepare a list of names, from ten to thirty, and to flash from one to another as fast as the operator can ring them up.