"Twenty-five" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are generally required to be from twenty-five to forty years of age. They may enter the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond-street, ...
— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 • Various
... sword, or the sabre; but foreigners, in fighting with the French, who were generally capital swordsmen, availed themselves of the use of pistols. The ground for a duel with pistols was marked out by indicating two spots, which were twenty-five paces apart; the seconds then generally proceeded to toss up who should have the first shot; when the principals were placed, and the word ...
— Reminiscences of Captain Gronow • Rees Howell Gronow
... the night at my house last night and to-day Pinny caught twenty-five crickets for him to take to his room to make music for him. While Cowen was riding down in the car a pretty girl got aboard, and in trying to get a peep at her Cowen dropped the box containing the crickets. For some moments it rained crickets. The women climbed up on ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
... a chance, I'm afraid. The first thing Doctor Bertie did yesterday evening was to wire St. Paul for two trained nurses; and to-day he telegraphed Chicago for Doctor Holworthy, who charges twenty-five dollars a minute for mere ...
— The Price • Francis Lynde
... over a hundred sovereigns that Raffles had taken, and, of course, he had resolutely eschewed any and every form of paper money. He posted his own first contribution of twenty-five pounds to the Founder's Fund immediately on our return to town, before rushing off to more first-class cricket, and I gathered that the rest would follow piecemeal as he deemed it safe. By an odd coincidence, ...
— A Thief in the Night • E. W. Hornung
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