five-and-sixty

Updated: May 25, 2025

At the inn where I had stopped for a relay of horses and some dinner for it was then past five o'clock I found the host, a hale old fellow of five-and-sixty, as he told me, a man of easy and garrulous benevolence, willing to accommodate his guests with any amount of talk, which the slightest tap sufficed to set flowing, on any subject you pleased.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5