I want tea, and coffee, and twenty-year-old bourbon. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
The twenty-year-old memories of his sail north fled. From Wordnik.com. [Crystal Rain] Reference
"Ah. Yours was the twenty-year-old beige half-ton getting towed.". From Wordnik.com. [Fault Line]
At the time, the summer of 2005, I was a twenty-year-old Pollyanna. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Schmier: Farewell, Gourmet (From Your Intern)] Reference
'I'm stronger than any of your twenty-year-old recruits,' I tell them. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914] Reference
The twenty-year-old Luke had been bitter about his father's rejection. From Wordnik.com. [Heartless]
These were not the usual emotions of a twenty-year-old, Philip thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
I looked again at Sal, a twenty-year-old with a large, creased forehead. From Wordnik.com. [Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult] Reference
His twenty-year-old daughter was found close by attired in a night-dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
'It all sounds rather dull for a twenty-year-old, but highly therapeutic'. From Wordnik.com. [No Laughing Matter]
One day earlier Ali, a twenty-year-old security guard who works in the East. From Wordnik.com. [Tom McCarthy: Blogging from Beirut: Scene of Destruction] Reference
Into the boat tumbled a British sailor named Pearce, a young twenty-year-old. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Missionary Heroes] Reference
With flooding, we also learned that twenty-year-old flood maps are not good. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Billy Ray Hall, January 20, 2000. Interview K-0509. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
You can replace a diamond tiara; money won't buy a twenty-year-old cake-knife. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917] Reference
With Metellus Numidicus was his twenty-year-old son, Metellus Pius the Piglet. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
A twenty-year-old woman had died within eighteen hours of the last drug purchase. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Atlanta, which was then a twenty-year-old frontier town three hundred miles inland. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]
The doctor had said that Ah Tam had the heart and the blood pressure of a twenty-year-old. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
When the twenty-year-old Appius Claudius Pulcher came a-wooing, Servilia Gnaea grabbed him. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
What could possibly be the attraction in a sweaty, slime-encrusted, twenty-year-old sneaker?. From Wordnik.com. [Dexter in the Dark]
A twenty-year-old ocean-freight container must keep out the elements better than those places. From Wordnik.com. [Till the Butchers Cut Him Down]
Is the twenty-year-old Volvo up to the two thousand five hundred kilometres from there to here?. From Wordnik.com. [Madness and Miracles in Central France] Reference
That was where he had met the young student, a twenty-year-old boy in a black uniform and a cap. From Wordnik.com. [The Japanese Corpse]
Inquiring my way, I soon found myself at the jail, where this twenty-year-old murderer was being held. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years with the Outcast] Reference
"She's perfectly lovely, Mr. Stewart," was Polly's emphatic praise of her pretty, twenty-year-old sister. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference
WHITFIELD: twenty-year-old Chelsea Clinton announced her engagement to longtime boyfriend Mark Mezvinsky last week. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2009] Reference
Just then, a fifteen - or twenty-year-old Mercedes wagon rounded the corner and slowed as it pulled up to the curb. From Wordnik.com. [Warning Signs]
And so it came to pass that one morning he walked along Billiter Street with his twenty-year-old commission in his pocket. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: the Sea] Reference
'I'm the posthumous illegitimate son of a twenty-year-old window cleaner who fell off his ladder just before his wedding.'. From Wordnik.com. [Whip Hand]
In legal standing, experience, education, taste, and emotions, this was a twenty-year-old man, every way except the physical. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
But twenty-year-old Whandall was elsewhere, dripping wet in a windless rain, surrounded by seven sullen Lordkin in their thirties. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
"Yes, sir," said Miles, not seeing any reason to mention that Carl lived with a twenty-year-old male model of Miles's acquaintance. From Wordnik.com. [Hardcase]
A twenty-year-old Stabler black walnut on our lawn lost many of its top limbs, though the lower limbs survived the winter all right. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948] Reference
That is what Tom Hayden wrote about meeting Mark Rudd when he was twenty-nine years old and Rudd a twenty-year-old Columbia student. From Wordnik.com. [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]
I just don't understand why some authors want to subject their readers to twenty-year-old Laura Ashley granny dresses and unkempt hair. From Wordnik.com. [Melanie Benjamin: How to Dress an Author] Reference
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