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Sentences starting with twenty

Twenty of these years he was the scoff of the world, and his poetry a by-word of scorn. [6]
Twenty of him wouldn't be worth the trouble he's makin'. [8]
Twenty ample fortunes would not timber one of the greatest of those silver mines. [5]
Twenty dollars, Madam--and we wouldn't part with a foot of our 75 for five times the sum. [5]
Twenty or thirty voices cried out: "What is it? [5]
Twenty rifles of the rebels had been stored in the farmhouse, and they were all loaded! [11]
Twenty sets formed, the music struck up, and then--I placed my hands before my face for very shame. [5]
Twenty yards from the lake, Dicky called a halt--Dicky, not the Mudir. [11]
Twenty men of the British artillery were also off on a chase that pleased them well. [11]
Twenty years older than the twins, and a companion-in-arms of their father, he had managed their rapid promotion. [10]

Sentences ending with twenty

Only five, and yet it seemed twenty. [11]
It's ten years--ten years since I saw you, and you were only fifteen, but a fifteen that was as good as twenty. [11]
One such instance will do as well as twenty. [3]
But if you were forty, I should question its propriety; if you were thirty, I should veto it, and you are but a little more than twenty. [6]
The last one was hardly twenty. [2]
I said she was eighteen, Harris said she was twenty. [5]
Clint was only twenty. [11]
Margaret was just turned twenty. [4]
They were two tribunes of the praetorians, but, notwithstanding their high grade, they were only young men of about twenty. [10]
That is scarce three years gone, when I was just turned one and twenty. [9]

Short sentences using twenty

Roxana was twenty years old. [5]
Am I bid twenty livres? [9]
Four and twenty thousand sequins! [10]
At twenty you stole horses. [5]
Ten, twenty, fifty seconds passed. [11]
Twenty rifles blazed out. [11]
What about the other twenty? [5]
There were twenty or more. [5]
Twenty weeks, and nothing comes! [11]
Those twenty men--my men? [11]

Sentences containing twenty two or more times

She was but twenty years ahead of us, and as our lands were equally salable--more so, as he maintained--we should have no more twenty years from now than she has at present. [7]
He uses it twenty times a day, or twenty thousand times a day; or a million times a day-- according to the exigencies. [5]
So costly are these that "now it is a small matter to bestow twenty nobles, ten pound, twenty pound, fortie pound, yea a hundred pound of one pair of Breeches. [4]
I'll never git over what Greevy done to me or to Clint--jest twenty, jest twenty! [11]
The Governors of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin offer to the President infantry troops for the approaching campaign as follows: Ohio, thirty thousand; Indiana, twenty thousand; Illinois, twenty thousand; Iowa, ten thousand; Wisconsin, five thousand. [7]
Of the votes of that one hundred and twenty, Judge Douglas's friends furnished twenty, to add to which there were six Americans and ninety-four Republicans. [7]
By the end of ten or twenty minutes--ten or twenty years--the little ingot is sodden with quicksilver, its virtues are gone, its character is degraded. [5]
Twenty times was Miss Crane on the point of requesting Mrs. Brice to leave, and twenty times, by the advice of Mrs. Abner Deed, she desisted. [9]
Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. [11]
Collinson cursed and cried out that it was buffoonery, and called on my Lord not to let me off so easily; swore that I fenced like a mercer, that he could have stuck me like a pin-cushion twenty and twenty times. [9]

More example sentences with the word twenty in them

Money gave you yours,--to go to school and college until you were twenty four, and get an education,--such as it was. [9]
The captain of your brother Philometor's Philobasilistes is bought over, and will stand by us; but his price was high--Komanus was forced to offer him twenty talents before he would bite. [10]
Many of these young people will jump up twenty times a day and run to dabble the tips of their fingers in water, after touching the most inoffensive objects. [6]
He was a young man,--perhaps five and twenty as I now know age,--woodsman-clad, square-built, sun-reddened. [9]
I believe in you, Mr. Gridley, as I believe in my Maker and in Father Pemberton,--but, poor man, he's old, and you won't be old these twenty years yet. [6]
By eleven o'clock you think you're all in, that the morning'll never end, but at noon you get a twenty five cent feed that lasts you until about five in the afternoon,--and then you don't know which way the machine's headed. [9]
By this, if you hire yourself at ten dollars a month, from me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your work. [7]
To your sorrow you are aware that frequently, much too frequently, when a book gets to be five or ten years old its annual sale shrinks to two or three hundred copies, and after an added ten or twenty years ceases to sell. [5]
She'd probably give you all she's saved to go to Europe with and study, saved from her pictures sold at twenty per cent of their value; and she'd mortgage the little income she's got to keep her brother out of jail. [11]
It is sixty years, then, since that time; and as they were, on an average, about twenty years old, those who survive must have reached fourscore years. [6]
Again, another three years, and now he writes me that he is going to be married to Clare Hazard on the twenty sixth of this month. [11]
Came out twenty years too soon,--that was the trouble. [6]
It is twenty years since 'Pierre and His People' was produced--and it still endures. [11]
Well, it's twenty years since I gambled--twenty years. [11]
He was twenty years older than O'Ryan, and he had studied his friend as a pious monk his missal. [11]
He was twenty years older than Abby, and made his money in leather. [9]
For over twenty years I had carried him in my mind, wondering whether, and when, I should-make use of him. [11]
Fifteen or twenty years ago I had an experience I shall never forget. [5]
I asked him wouldn't he knock off twenty per cent. [5]
But the boat would float on, and the boulder descend again, and then we could see that when we had been exactly above it, it must still have been twenty or thirty feet below the surface. [5]
This gift was worth twenty houses in the city, and made its owner a rich man. [10]
Some of 'em's worth twenty dollars apiece--there ain't any, hardly, but's worth six bits or a dollar. [5]
What it'll be worth in another twenty years I don't know. [11]
That's not the worst, for there's a man at Bindon would lose his life--p'r'aps twenty men--I dunno; but one man sure. [11]
In a long wooden building, divided into two main apartments, twenty to thirty operators are employed. [4]
When he was within twenty paces, and Nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling tenderness and ecstasy such as he had never before known. [2]
That's the case with your philosopher; and I'm not sure that I won't lose twenty thousand dollars by him yet. [11]
Mabry fell pierced with twenty buckshot, and almost instantly O'Connor fell dead without a struggle. [5]
The railroad began with the same schedule it has now: two expresses a week-time, twenty miles an hour. [5]
All of them, with the questionable exception of the Springfield tree above referred to, stop, so far as my experience goes, at about twenty-two or twenty-three feet of girth and a hundred and twenty of spread. [6]
Captain Basil Hall, who saw it at flood-stage, says-- 'Sometimes we passed along distances of twenty or thirty miles without seeing a single habitation. [5]
This detestable practice, which I was almost proscribed for condemning somewhat too epigrammatically a little more than twenty years ago, came to us, I suspect, in a considerable measure from the English "general practitioners," a sort of prescribing apothecaries. [6]
The plot into which he had been led was directed against Barine, whom he had long imagined he loved with all the fervour of his twenty years. [10]
His great remedy, which he gave oftener than any other, was nitre; which he ordered in doses of twenty or thirty grains to adults, and of three grains to infants. [3]
Behind the gun-carriage, which bore the body, walked the nephew of the great Dakoon, then came a clear space, and then Pango Dooni, and Cumner, and behind these twenty men of the artillery, at whose head rode McDermot and Cumner's Son. [11]
These were written when I was twenty and twenty-one years of age, and the sonnet sequence of 'A Lover's Diary' was begun when I was twenty- three. [11]
Let him meditate what this vision of beauty will be like in twenty ears. [4]
Compared, indeed, to what it had twenty years ago? [9]
For the men were twenty feet apart and every tenth carried a standard. [9]
Its watery ventricles were throbbing with the same systole and diastole as when, the blood of twenty years bounding in my own heart, I looked upon their giant mechanism. [6]
About twenty people were present, including Dolokhov and Denisov. [2]
Ah, if I were only a habitant of the Campagna five and twenty miles from Rome! [5]
Some twenty men were gathered round a table at which Dolokhov sat between two candles. [2]
Twenty, twenty-five cards were drawn, and then Pierre paused. [11]
The forty men were divided into two shifts of twenty each, and were to relieve each other every two hours. [5]
Although the pedestrians were but twenty feet away, what Mr. Worthington said never reached them; but the Honorable Heth on public days carried his voice of the Forum around with him. [9]
Though twenty books were ascribed to me, I should own none. [14]
I might as well be twenty miles off. [12]
We discussed everything we knew, during the first fifteen or twenty minutes, that morning, and then branched out into the glad, free, boundless realm of the things we were not certain about. [5]
At this point we have an episode: Beside the shore of the brook sat a young man, about eighteen or twenty, who seemed to be reading some favorite book, and who had a remarkably noble countenance--eyes which betrayed more than a common mind. [5]
From your ship we had not provision in victuals worth twenty pound, and we are more than two hundred to live upon this, the one halfe sicke, the other little better. [4]
Outside the house we encountered a double rank of twenty or thirty of Miss Porter's young ladies arriving from a walk, and we stood aside, ostensibly to let them have room to file past, but really to look at them. [5]
They have a way of mixing the oxygen which issues in small jets from certain natural springs with their atmospheric nitrogen in the proportion of about twenty per cent, which makes very nearly the same thing as the air of your planet. [6]
I found the water some three hundred yards away, and had been resting about twenty minutes, when I heard voices. [5]
This time the watch came within twenty feet of him, saluted and retired. [11]
The first question was, Who could the citizen have been who gave the stranger the twenty dollars? [5]
Ver' well, dere was twenty men in Pontiac, ver' nice men--you will find de names cut in a stone on de church; and den, three times as big, you will find Mathurin's name. [11]
Our next move was to shove the screen back and mount the volunteer singers, melodeon and all, upon the platform,--some twenty of them crowded together behind the minister. [4]
Not a farthing was to be taken from the moneyed capital for twenty years to come, and this was expressly recorded; nor might the trade be sold, or cease to be carried on. [10]
Mrs. John Grier was to be paid during her life a yearly stipend of twenty thousand dollars from the business; she also received a grant of seventy thousand dollars. [11]
So singularly clear was the water, that where it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom was so perfectly distinct that the boat seemed floating in the air! [5]
The original nucleus was the Methodist camp-meeting, which, in the season, brought here twenty thousand to thirty thousand people at a time, who camped and picnicked in a somewhat primitive style. [4]
This little journal was started something like twenty years ago. [4]
Fosters Opera House was some six squares distant, and by a liberal estimate Mr. Duncan and his advance guard ought to get back within twenty minutes of the time he left. [9]
Samuel Cooper Thacher was hardly twenty years old when the "Anthology" was founded, and died when he was only a little more than thirty. [6]
That's why I was going to say to you that in my will I'm going to leave you this business, you to pay my wife every year twenty thousand dollars. [11]
Or ever he was four and twenty I found the first white hair in his brown locks. [10]
A gentleman who was at the head of the government twenty years ago confirms this, and says that in his time the parliament was orderly and well-behaved. [5]
When the colony was about eighteen or twenty years old it was discovered that the land was specially fitted for the wool-culture. [5]
Just as Dron was a model village Elder, so Alpatych had not managed the prince's estates for twenty years in vain. [2]
One of them was a lad of nineteen or twenty, and he was a good deal of a ruin, as to clothes, and morals, and general aspect. [5]
Inside it was warm and bright and home-like; outside it was twenty degrees below zero, and like some vast tomb where life itself was congealed, and only the white stars, low, twinkling, and quizzical, lived-a life of sharp corrosion, not of fire. [11]
Everybody knows I want to be governor, everybody knows I've got twenty thousand dollars in the bank to pay for that privilege. [9]
We had to wait twenty or thirty minutes. [5]
Whereupon the latter vowed that they would have a party at their house too, and made arrangements for a dance of twenty or thirty couples, to be followed by an entertainment. [6]
She had a very vague idea as to how much twenty thousand dollars was, but she reflected that while they had lived in Rivington Howard must have made many similar sums, of which she was unaware. [9]
The Tribune modestly ventured the theory that Mr. Crewe had appeared to each of the twenty in a dream, with a flaming sword pointing to the steam of the dragon's breath. [9]
So in one vast space--say a third of a mile wide and two miles long--were collected two thousand gondolas, and every one of them had from two to ten, twenty and even thirty colored lanterns suspended about it, and from four to a dozen occupants. [5]
He had acquired various branches of learning while sharing the studies of his foster-brother, the eldest son of the old Knight Schorlin, who was then living, and therefore, when scarcely twenty, was appointed schoolmaster at Stansstadt. [10]
If I could use the phonographic character with facility I could do the 1,500 in twenty minutes. [5]
If he'd a-chawed up all the men he's ben a-gwyne to chaw up in the last twenty year he'd have considerable ruputation now. [5]
And by some untoward association she was reminded of a conversation she had had with Ditmar on the Saturday afternoon following their first Sunday excursion, when, on opening her pay envelope, she had found twenty dollars. [9]
By gradual and unexplained degrees, the constitution of the State has been changed until there are only twenty senators. [9]
One may rest under the Poultry Cross, where twenty or thirty generations have rested before him. [6]
It have one, two, three, twenty seals; and de King he say to Mathurin: 'Merci mille fois, m'sieu'; you are ver' polite. [11]
Every moment or two a straggler was added to my audience; and before I got to the head of the island I had fifteen or twenty people assembled down there under my nose. [5]
Having changed horses twice and galloped twenty miles in an hour and a half over a sticky, muddy road, Bolkhovitinov reached Litashevka after one o'clock at night. [2]
She was, at twenty, the most beautiful woman in Virginia. [4]
There were ten, twenty, sometimes even thirty of them on their feet at a time, storming at the prisoner minute after minute, but Joan was not disturbed. [5]
He was perhaps twenty, and wore a coat that sprung in at the waist, and trousers of a light buff-color that gathered at the ankle and were very copious above. [9]
You are past twenty, and every year it grows harder to say yes to a lover. [10]
In the next twenty years we shall see a tremendous growth. [9]
In less than twenty years we have seen wonderful changes in public taste and in the efforts of writers to meet it or to create it. [4]
He was but twenty years old when he stepped into the shop where the old tombstone-cutter had worked for forty years. [11]
You are now twenty years of age; you must marry. [10]
He was only twenty years of age when the Revolution began. [9]
This day, or twenty years from now, or to-morrow, or next moon, he will come to the end of the path. [11]
A factor of twenty years before, in recognition of the chief's merits and in reward of his services, had presented him with a pair of epaulettes, left in the Fort by some officer in Her Majesty's service. [11]
I remember it twenty years ago when it was housed in a stable. [5]
He had died twenty years after the time when Luke Claridge, against the then custom of the Quakers, set up a tombstone to Mercy Claridge's memory behind the Meeting-house. [11]

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