couple-o'-score

Updated: May 11, 2025

I've known Silverthorn folk, quick and dead, for the last couple-o'-score year, and I've never knew one so three-cunning for harm as thee, my gentleman lime-burner; and I reckon it one o' the luckiest days o' my life when I 'scaped having thee in my family. That maid of mine was right; I was wrong.

Thomas Hardy - The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid