What is "twentie"

Usage examples of "twentie".

Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades.

Of the thirty-two who died in that period, only four reached the age of sixty, four reached the age of fifty, seven died in their forties, seven died in their twenties or thirties, and nine died before they were five years old.

The professional politicians corning to the fore in the twenties and thirties, though sometimes self-made, were seldom ordinary.

Harding and Coolidge in the twenties, the Secretary of the Treasury was Andrew Mellon, one of the richest men in America.

Neither that war nor the partial prosperity of the twenties, nor the apparent destruction of the socialist movement, could prevent, in the situation of economic crisis, another radical awakening, another labor upsurge in the thirties.

The man was in his middle twenties, his bearing was too stiff, and he wore a rather unpleasant, almost nasty expression.

A man in his twenties, dressed in a grey suit, was sitting at the reception desk.

He was young, perhaps in his late twenties, and probably not too long out of law school.

He flicked through a sheaf of fifties, added a smaller stack of twenties, weighed them in his hand, then passed them over to Shadow.

It looked like something that gangsters might have been proud to drive in the Roaring Twenties, running boards and all.

It was finally the ward clerk, Leslie Meyers, a woman in her twenties who wore a diamond in the middle of her tongue.

Smith little dreaming of that accident, being got to the marshes at the river's head, twentie myles in the desert, had his two men slaine (as is supposed) sleeping by the Canowe, whilst himselfe by fowling sought them victuall, who finding he was beset with 200 Salvages, two of them hee slew, still defending himself with the ayd of a Salvage his guide, whom he bound to his arme with his garters, and used him as a buckler, yet he was shot in his thigh a little, and had many arrowes stucke in his cloathes but no great hurt, till at last they tooke him prisoner.