He was a young man perhaps twenty-seven years of age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference

At this time Louis de Camors was twenty-seven years old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Ceylon -- an expedition that lasts him twenty-seven years.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

I added that I'd completed the journey twenty-seven times.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Death In Paradise] Reference

I am twenty-seven years old, and I don't have a cell phone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aaron Greenspan: Why I Don't Have a Cell Phone] Reference

English fleet twenty-seven sail of the line and four frigates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

It was one twenty-seven A.M. when I woke with a violent start.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

He was about twenty-seven years old, and was cool and certain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Naval Yarns] Reference

The prices range from nine dollars to twenty-seven dollars a dozen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Road] Reference

At twenty-seven Justus had not less than five hundred thousand marks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The Prince of Wales reviewed twenty-seven thousand London volunteers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference

  She walks into my bar, and fourteen men turn twenty-seven eyes toward her.    From Wordnik.com.  [So then she says] Reference

The banker was about fifty, the lady twenty-seven and the wife of a well-known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference

He can manage at least twenty-seven kinds of meaning between confusion and surprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manure] Reference

 He was the first of three live-ins and two husbands, and Sis was only twenty-seven.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anniversary Cruise] Reference

This increased the march from Milliken's Bend from twenty-seven to nearly forty miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Cable was brought on trucks, coiled like snakes around spindles twenty-seven feet high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hole] Reference

I don't remember who introduced us -- over twenty-seven years have passed since that night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis] Reference

There were at that time twenty-seven teachers and missionaries in the city representing nine.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

                            That lassie you liked, aged twenty-seven.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Made You . . . (April Fool's Day Challenge)] Reference

I remained with this wing until the night of the 18th, when we were within twenty-seven miles of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The "twenty-seven year retail veteran" who will oversee the project began work just this week. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microsoft retail outlets: Apple stores for the PC community?] Reference

Charles P. Duane is another one of twenty-seven men who were shipped out of the State and returned.    From Wordnik.com.  [California, 1849-1913; or, the rambling sketches and experiences of sixty-four years' residence in that state] Reference

They are twenty-four inches long by twenty-seven inches wide and have a drawstring of common twine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest] Reference

Oxford, then traveled in France and Italy, and was elected to Parliament when twenty-seven years old.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of Pittsburgh] Reference

Of the twenty-seven years which had elapsed since the Restoration, he had passed twelve in confinement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference

He precipitately took ship for Marseilles, and for twenty-seven years was forced to remain in that city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference

twenty-seven copies of a book, when read by twenty-seven men of intelligence, outweigh a popular success.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

  So twenty-seven eyes turn towards the door, towards this silhouette framed by the harsh afternoon light.    From Wordnik.com.  [So then she says] Reference

It is under a private society, composed of twenty-seven visitors, but is supported and controlled by the state.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States] Reference

After examining the 'sweat,' name and everything they both agreed that this was a twenty-seven dollars a dozen hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Road] Reference

In 1830 the number was increased to eighteen, in 1832 to twenty-seven, in 1834 to forty-eight, and in 1835 to sixty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States] Reference

Thus we see how firm a hold upon the imagination of the world the tale of Troy had after twenty-seven hundred years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference

But then I came out with that impertinence about the twenty-seven copies, and by this time she hates me beyond a doubt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

I put the form away in my drawer and forgot about it, my dreams of inalienable rights felled by just twenty-seven words.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Love It or Leave It’] Reference

Day, Sunday after Ascension, Pentecost or Whitsunday, Trinity Sunday; and from twenty-three to twenty-seven Sundays after Trinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference

The voices of the twenty-seven million humans in slavery today cry out against us; they wonder when our help will come to rescue them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jon Foreman: The Economy of the Garden -- Part Two] Reference

The twenty-seven other congresspersons named as being under investigation for possible ethics violations were made public last October.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Why Waters and Rangel's are the Poster Duo for Political Corruption] Reference