What is "twenty-three"

Usage examples of "twenty-three".

DEAR SON,--I wrote you at length and sent it by Don Ferdinand, who left to go yonder twenty-three days ago to-day, with the Lord Adelantado and Carbajal, from whom I have since heard nothing.

This large hut, eighteen feet wide by twenty-three feet long, yielded a fairly large quantity of coarse black and brown pottery, one badly corroded bronze bangle, and two small fragments of celadon china.

There were some damn good fishermen here, but Richie had already boated sixty-three fish, while the total howlers caught by the other twenty-three entrants was only sixty.

Phemus Circle, and found that little cluster of twenty-three suns and sixty-two habitable planets limned in muddy brown, at the point where the overlapping boundaries of the three dominant clades converged.

If you were to ask me to shew you the scar, I could not satisfy you, for you must understand that the body I had at that time does not exist any longer, and in my present bodily envelope I am only twenty-three years old.

Put in solitary confinement for twenty-three hours a day, denied use of the library and any mail service.

I was alone, with plenty of clothes and jewels, without letters of introduction, but with a wellfilled purse, enjoying excellent health and my twenty-three years.

Seattle Chinooks crowned all six Los Angeles power-play chances and Goalie Luc Martineau blocked twenty-three shots on goal in a 3-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings.

He was now a young man of twenty-three, of a delicate order of prettiness, and might easily have been taken for a girl in disguise if he had not allowed his whiskers to grow.

Twenty-three years afterwards, in 1784, I found him in Venice, valet to Count Hardegg, and I felt inclined to have him hanged.

Section twenty-three of the Tecton Code, his junct condition makes him unfit to manage the affairs of a House.

He had commanded that the finest inspiration of his Mind should be made manifest, and so for seventy yards up and down the Promenade, the first of the twenty-three lemmas needed to prove the conjecture was captured in hard, flowing columns of diamond meant to last forever.

Tycho had originally called for all twenty-three lemmas to be so arrayed, one after the other for a mile and a half down the Promenade.

And if she gave someone her last twenty-three lire to post them - even if she had the means to pack them - it would not even be enough.

Pompey, the youngest at sixteen, through to Lucius Volumnius, the oldest at twenty-three.